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In a recently published paper a former fellow, João Antonio F. Brito, sheds new light on the status of the fisheries sector in his home country, Cape Verde, and its contribution to total output and employment.

Warsha Singh, an ecologist at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute’s Pelagic division in Iceland, and former GRO-FTP fellow and the current the head of ARAM line of GRO-FTP, was selected to participate at the UNESCO International Day of Women in Multilateralism 2024. The forum took place 25 January at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.

The group of FTP fellows specialising in fisheries policy and management are currently settling into daily life in Akureyri ... and have already made it into the local news.

How do we get where we want to be with our fisheries? How do we come up with policies that have impact? How do we ensure social acceptance of changes? What has worked in this and what has not worked?

Some of the big challenges we are facing as inhabitants of planet earth, and its impact on fisheries, were the main focus of study during the third week of the 2023-24 Six-month training programme.