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FAMENET communicates the successes of the EMFF and EMFAF, through the collection of good practices and stories, to a wide range of audiences.  

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Holzinger a family-owned fish processing company in Upper Austria, is a cornerstone of Austria's regional economy and central European market. Holzinger has embarked on a digital and modernisation push, focusing on three key areas: using renewable energies, investing in new equipment and machines,

  • 2 min read
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With the help of EMFF funding and a bit of Danish ingenuity, researchers are exploring innovative production techniques that could revolutionise aquaculture as we know it.

  • 2 min read
Silver - cheeked toadfish - Lagocephalus sceleratus from Cyprus by Athanassios/stock.adobe.com
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When the Suez Canal was opened 150 years ago, it brought many positive aspects for travel and trade. But it also opened a channel (pun intended) for the mass migration of invasive marine species from the Indo-Pacific region, with significant, and generally negative repercussions for the biodiversity

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Traditional cherhanaua open air museum © Galati FLAG
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The Fisheries Tourism Network is an online platform that offers tourists unique opportunities to visit and learn more about the cultural heritage of fisheries areas in Romania.

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Caviar from Erim Fish ©Veneta Zheleva
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At the foot of the Rhodope Montains, in Bulgaria, an aquaculture family business had to cope with its fish getting eaten away by cunning birds. But in this Natura 2000 Protected Area, fighting back and attacking the birds was out of question – on account of the bird killing ban put in place

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Lumpfish in the reef © Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries
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Much to the fishers’ dismay, cod populations in the Baltic Sea have been decreasing since the 1990s. The reasons are many, including habitat degradation. The same decade also saw the start of a potential solution to habitat loss.

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