Join us on 17 April for the Joint Webinars on Fisheries Bycatch. Carlotta Mazzoldi (University of Padua, LIFE Prometheus) will present work on elasmobranch survival rates and how post-capture release could support conservation and fisheries management. lnkd.in/d-yBai5a

tinyurl.com/FisheriesByc... Join us tomorrow ☝️ (6 Feb) for the next Joint Webinars on Fisheries Bycatch! David Lusseau (DTU, @cibbrina.bsky.social) will present BEAM, a new approach to producing robust bycatch estimates across European fisheries. "Sea" you there! 🌊 12:00 CET | Online

This month’s Joint Webinar on Fisheries Bycatch features Pierluigi Carbonara (COISPA, LIFE Prometheus) presenting on blue shark behaviour, bycatch mitigation & conservation in the South Adriatic Sea. 🦈 #Bycatch #SustainableFisheries #LifePrometheus #MarineBeacon #CIBBRiNA #REDUCE #ECO-Catch

🌊 The ocean is at a crossroads, and 2025 is a defining year. We are proud to be part of the global push for #SDG 14. From bycatch reduction to better data and governance, our work reflects the priorities set at #UNOC3. 🔗 Read how: marinebeacon.eu/marine-beaco... @horizoneu.bsky.social #Bycatch

Marine Beacon and UNOC3: Advancing Ocean Action in 2025 - Marine Beacon

From 9–13 June 2025, the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) convened in Nice, France, with a strong call to accelerate global action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean. With Sustaina...

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Tomorrow, our friends @reduce-project.bsky.social & @ird-fr.bsky.social will be delivering the next joint webinar on the use of observer image data for AI species recognition in tropical tuna fisheries. Together with @cibbrina.bsky.social we are a trio of #HorizonEU projects on reducing #bycatch.

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📢Remember! Tomorrow, we´ll be delivering another exciting presentation on #ETPbycatch

Our brand-new website has been launched and is now live! We’ve built a website with an advanced design that makes browsing easier and meaningful to provide key information about REDUCE. You will be able to learn all about the project. Come aboard here reducebycatch.eu

Heyyy!!! #MarineResearchers!!!! Today is #WorldOceansDay2025 and, to celebrate it, #GES4SEAS project launched this video on achieving healthy #Ocean #MarineEcology Watch, Share, Use, RT www.ges4seas.eu youtu.be/0NXl4bEJEWM

What is Good Environmental Status ?

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Science, society & storytelling An illustrated paper in ICES Journal of Marine Science brings to life the key themes & insights from the Marine Socio-Ecological Systems #MSEAS 2024 Symposium held in Yokohama, Japan. 📖 Read the full paper academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @picesmarinesci.bsky.social

We’re proud to join scientists, policymakers, and civil society at the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France this week—a pivotal moment to connect science, society, and solutions for our ocean. #OOS2025 #OneOcean #OceanSolutions @empowerus.bsky.social @iolnetwork.bsky.social

" #CKMR has been the most important methodological breakthrough in stock assessment since the turn of the century"🗣️Ana Parma #CONICETCenpat Register for our #CKMR training course! Close-Kin Mark-Recapture for Fisheries & Bycatch 📅18–22 August 2025📍Copenhagen ices.dk/events/Train...

Members of the Marine Beacon team will be at European Maritime Day this Thursday & Friday! Partners Marine Institute and ERINN Innovation will be hosting booths with flyers on Marine Beacon, so come by to learn more about our work on bycatch and sustainable fisheries. #EMD2025 #HorizonEU

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We're excited to be attending #EuropeanMaritimeDay in Cork later this week. Read our latest blog to learn more about the marine-based projects we're bringing to #EMD2025: erinn.eu/supporting-o...

We’re happy to announce that REDUCE is already in Blue Sky and running! As we´re new in this platform we´ll presenting our mission and who we are. Welcome onboard! (again)

This Friday’s Joint Webinar features Benjamin Dudouet (@cibbrina.bsky.social), presenting a framework to assess the feasibility of incentive-based approaches for reducing bycatch of marine mammals and other protected species. Along w/ ReduceProject, exploring sensible solutions to #bycatch.

🌍 Happy Earth Day from Marine Beacon! By reducing bycatch & building more sustainable fisheries, Marine Beacon is working to safeguard Europe’s marine ecosystems. We’re proud to work with researchers, fishers, and policymakers across Europe to develop practical solutions for healthier oceans! 🦈

This Friday, our researcher Bríd O’Connor (Marine Institute) presents a sensitivity analysis of fish species in the Northeast Atlantic—spotlighting which ones are most vulnerable and where protections may be missing. With @cibbrina.bsky.social & ReduceProject 🦈 @horizoneu.bsky.social #Bycatch

🚨🚨 Mackerel on the brink! Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌ We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mackerel stocks near breaking point because of overfishing, say experts

Northeast Atlantic mackerel populations depleted, and Good Fish Guide says shoppers should look for other options

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We’ve wrapped our @marinebeacon.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Oostende — a milestone moment as the project moves from setup to impact. Catch up on the key developments, collaborations & next steps for reducing #bycatch in European #fisheries: tinyurl.com/8ewk789e @horizoneu.bsky.social

Marine Beacon Annual Meeting Marks Major Project Milestone in Oostende - Marine Beacon

Oostende, Belgium – The Marine Beacon project held an in-person annual meeting from 1 to 3 April 2025, bringing together over 40 participants from across Europe. Hosted by ILVO at their InnovOcean cam...

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A full second day at the #MarineBeacon annual meeting in Oostende! 🧬 From technical updates to inspiring sister project inputs 🤝 REDUCE + CIBRRiNA collaboration 🌍 Focus on stakeholder platforms & early career researchers 📚 Even talk of joint publications! Energising progress! 🌊

Wrapping up a productive @marinebeacon.bsky.social day in Oostende! 🔹 Our coordinator's update shows we're hitting our target aims 🔹 Inspiring insights from other relevant projects on bycatch, eDNA, vessel-based data & biodiversity Thanks to all who shared their work & vision!🌊

Getting set up and ready to start @marinebeacon.bsky.social annual meeting hosted by our partners at ILVO. Looking forward to catching up with partners in person and hearing about all the exciting #bycatch research being conducted across Europe and beyond #horizoneurope

@marinebeacon.bsky.social partners are gathering today at ILVO in Oostende for our 2025 annual meeting. This marks the beginning of a very active year for the project, so be sure to watch this space! #bycatch @horizoneu.bsky.social #sustainableFishing

Last week, Martin Pastoors presented on #CIBBRiNA at the Joint Cluster Event for Reducing #Bycatch in Brussels, alongside our sister projects REDUCE and @marinebeacon.bsky.social. 1/4

This week's #ERINNinnovation Project Spotlight: @marinebeacon.bsky.social This project examines how fisheries bycatch affects protected species in the Atlantic & develops better monitoring & mitigation methods. ERINN Innovation leads dissemination & communication. Learn more: tinyurl.com/4fz9792r

EU project launched to help reduce bycatch of protected and endangered Atlantic species

A major new European project will improve our understanding of how the bycatch of fisheries impacts protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS) in the Atlantic Ocean and develop methods for be...

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Had the opportunity to attend an event @bioagora.eu to explore how a cluster of projects on #bycatchreductuin could be beneficial in the science policy landscape. Great as always to enhance collaborations between @marinebeacon.bsky.social and @reduce-project and @cibbrina.bsky.social

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We´re happy to share the floor with our sister projects #CIBBRiNA, #MarineBeacon and with new projects´ representatives we are meeting today to set networking in #bycatch #fisheriesbycatchreduction #KexMarineCluster

📢 The seventh Joint Webinar on Fisheries Bycatch is happening this Friday! Ross Wanless (University of Barcelona - REDUCE) will discuss the ongoing challenge of seabird bycatch and why some populations remain at risk. With @cibbrina.bsky.social & REDUCE, working together for sustainable fisheries!

Since September 2024, @reduce-project.bsky.social, @marinebeacon.bsky.social and @cibbrina.bsky.social are holding the "Joint Webinars on Fisheries Bycatch", a series of internal webinars from our collaborative effort to share knowledge on the issue of fisheries interactions and marine ETP species.

The sixth Joint Webinar on Fisheries Bycatch happens this Friday! Matthieu Authier (CIBBRiNA) will present a new approach to managing common dolphin bycatch in the Bay of Biscay using a stochastic surplus production model. Along with ReduceProject, we're working together for sustainable fisheries! 🐬

Excited to have been featured by @euronews.com, showcasing our partner @ifremer.bsky.social's work on AI-powered smart trawl tech to reduce #bycatch & support #sustainable_fishing. Special thanks to Robin Faillettaz for representing Marine Beacon so well! @horizoneu.bsky.social tinyurl.com/337nd927

Can smarter fishing gear protect marine life and keep fishers afloat?

Industrial fisheries unintentionally kill thousands of marine animals every year. Can new technology help solve this problem? #Ocean

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🚨 The first joint webinar of the year kicks off soon! Nicolás Collazo from U. of Azores, a @marinebeacon.bsky.social partner, will share insights on deep-sea shark vulnerability in the Azores using the EASI-Fish methodology. With CIBBRiNA & the Reduce Project we're tackling bycatch together! 🦈🙌

Exciting four year postdoc on #bycatch of ETP species in marine #fisheries in Ireland. 🌍🧪🦑 🦤 🦈🐟🐢 #dolphins #whales #sharks #seabirds and maybe even sea turtles. Part of CIBBRiNA project. www.marine.ie/site-area/wo...