Expressions of Interest to enrol in the REDUCE workshop “Reducing marine megafauna bycatch in Northwest African fisheries: advancing monitoring, mitigation and sustainability”, on board the Spanish training vessel ´INTERMARES´. Port of Dakar (Senegal). 6-9 October 2026.
🌊 Shape the Future of Marine Conservation: Join the REDUCE Training Experience! Are you a national from West Africa countries and passionate about protecting our oceans? Do you want to gain hands-on experience in mitigating bycatch of Endangered, Threatened, and Protected (ETP) species? Is your area of concern sustainable fisheries and marine environment in the […]
12th edition of the Regional Marine and Coastal Forum (FOMACO) of the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of Coastal and Marine Zones in West Africa (PRCM). Nouakchott (Mauritania). 27-30 April 2026.
FOMCACO has become an essential meeting place for all stakeholders involved in the protection of marine and coastal ecosystems. Governments, parliamentarians, scientists, national and international civil society, the private sector and donors: all key conservation players come together to debate, decide and act. It is also a good opportunity to networking with key player in […]
Joint Webinars on Fisheries resumed in January 2026.
This networking activity with Europeans projects working on fisheries bycacth and mitigation measures has now been extended to six sister projects. REDUCE, CIBBRiNA, Marine Beacon, Marine Guardian, ECO-CATCH, PROMETHEUS, SEA4FUTURE. Interesting talks and presentations on the research being developing by scientists from the six projets are delivered now in a biweekly basis.
Working meeting with pelagic long line skippers from the fleet of Peniche. Portugal. 20 January 2026.
We had a working session to review the progress of the trials of Electronic Monitoring Systems as well as determining new collaborations on board for ETP species bycatch mitigation measures tests, tagging and study of the occurrence of BYC.
Engagement meetings with EU leading Fishing Producer Organizations (FPO) from Galicia operating in waters of the East Central Atlantic Ocean. Galicia, 1-4 December 2025.
As part of our commitment and firm beliebe on the necessary involvement of fishers in tghe studies and co-design of mitigatinion measures, we had a fruitful round of meetings in 4 major fishing ports in Galicia (Vigo, Marín, A Guarda, Burela) where researchers, FPOs representatives and skippers exchanged views on bycatch of megafauna, impacts on […]
REDUCE was present at the event “Curiosidade, motor da ciência” during the 17th anniversary of Rómulo – University of Coimbra Science Centre.
Catarina Silva, from our partner Universidade de Coimbra, represented REDUCE at the event “Curiosidade, motor da ciência”, an exhibition celebrating the role of curiosity in scientific research, during the 17th anniversary of Rómulo – UC Science Centre.
Workshop on “Marine Megafauna Bycatch Data Collection and Mitigation” held in Nouakchott (Mauritania). 10-12 November 2026.
This workshop was organized by REDUCE project in collaboration with BirdLife International (BLI), the Partenariat Régional pour la Conservation de la zone côtière et Marine (PRCM) and the Institut Mauritanien de Recherches Océanographiques et des Pêches (IMRO) aimed at regional onboard observers. Participants acquired updated knowledge on bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds, elasmobranchs (sharks and […]
IV Conference on the Ocean Decade in Cabo Verde. lha de Fogo. 10-11 October 2025.
REDUCE was participating in the IV Conference on the Ocean Decade in Cabo Verde. This is part of the global commitment to strengthen the protection and sustainable use of the oceans, in line with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). This event was opened by the President of Cabo Verde, José […]
