- On the occasion of the inauguration, a round table was held with representatives of projects benefiting from the latest call for aid from the Pleamar Program that have the Valencian Community as their area of action
October 3, 2024.- The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has inaugurated today, at the University of Alicante, a new itinerancy of the exhibition “Pleamar Program: seven years of projects to promote the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture”.
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The inauguration, which took place in the Board Room of the Faculty of Sciences II, was attended by Carlos Valle Pérez, Vice-Dean of Quality and academic coordinator of the degree in Marine Sciences at the University of Alicante; Maribel Beltrán Rico, director of the Secretariat of Research Structures of the University of Alicante, and Javier Remiro, coordinator of the Sustainable Blue Economy area of the Biodiversity Foundation.
During the day, a round table was organized to present the new projects selected in the first call of the Pleamar Program of the new FEMPA period (2021-2027), which will have the Valencian Community as their scope of action.
The round table was attended by Killian Toledo, director of GLORiA-TOOLS; Victoria Fernández, director of CAMBIA; and Isabel Abel, from e-Lasmobranc, projects developed by the University of Alicante.
Mª Ángeles García de Alcaraz, director of the GePescArt-2 project, promoted by the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), has also participated.
The GLORiA-TOOLS project is focused on creating and transferring tools and technologies to improve the resilience and environmental and socio-economic sustainability of fish farming in the open ocean in the face of global change.
The CAMBIA initiative will advance in generating new production opportunities in aquaculture systems with low environmental impact.
On the other hand, e-Lasmobranc is based on the application of new technologies to improve the knowledge of elasmobranchs in southeastern Spain for their incorporation into the regulations and management and monitoring plans of the areas studied.
Finally, the GePescArt-2 project focuses, on the other hand, on expanding knowledge about eel and mugilids in the Iberian southeast.
MORE THAN 100 PROJECTS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
After the round table, a tour of the exhibition was made, made up of twenty photographs, which shows the results and advances in the preservation and improvement of marine biodiversity and the promotion of fisheries and aquaculture sustainability thanks to the Pleamar Program.
After five calls for aid in the first period, more than 24 million euros have already been allocated from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), with 135 projects being carried out by 70 beneficiary entities.
The exhibition, which began its itinerancy in Burela last December, has already passed through the Port of Vigo, the University of Cádiz, the Paseo de la Marina in Ceuta, the Granada towns of Castell de Ferro, Almuñécar and Motril and the Port of Cartagena.
