The blue economy covers a range of traditional and emerging sectors that are essential sources of food, energy, health and leisure for people throughout the world. The blue economy is growing fast and attracting investment worldwide. However, businesses often remain unsustainable. Illegal fishin...
The blue economy encompasses all economic activities relating to oceans and seas. It employs over 4 million people in the EU and its landscape is evolving rapidly. Some traditional sectors are in decline while other sectors, both established and emerging, are showing strong potential for growth ...
The WestMED Initiative has been created to help public institutions, academia, local communities, small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs from both sides of the Western Mediterranean develop local and regional maritime projects together....
The EU protects our seas and oceans, while ensuring that they remain economically and environmentally sustainable as a driver for jobs, growth and innovation....
With maritime space in increasingly high demand, due to competition between different sectors, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) can be a determining factor for the development of the blue economy. This study aims to explore evidence of effects stemming from the current state of implementation of ...
The study evaluates the performance and functioning of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) . The assessment of EMODnet is structured around six evaluation criteria: Relevance; EU added-value; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Coherence; and Sustainability. The answers to the eval...
The European Commission defines Bioeconomy as: “the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.” (European Commission, 2012). The addition of “blue” entails a...
As the name suggests, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund does not just support fisheries, but also maritime policy. It is mainly national administrations who decide how to use the amounts they receive to support both fisheries and the blue economy. The European Commission also manages a sm...
Newsletter of the WestMED Blue Economy Initiative. It supports public and private organisations, research institutions and universities, institutional and private investors, as well as promoters and other stakeholders that wish to be involved in the development of strategic initiatives in the we...
The current report analyses the information reported by the European Union Member States (MSs) on the Descriptor 2 (D2) - non indigenous species (NIS) - of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This reporting information by the MSs followed the Article 17 requirements of MSFD for updat...