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Ocean Ecostructure, a Spanish company from Barcelona, is addressing pressing environmental challenges related to the loss of biomass and biodiversity.

The marine waters around France are a mosaic of habitats. A LIFE project is helping the French marine Natura 2000 network protect them and reach favourable conservation status.

In the French outermost region of La Réunion, small-scale fishers often use surface longlines to target tuna and billfish. But with this technique, fishers sometimes accidentally catch sharks.

The health and prosperity of people and the planet rely on the stability of the global water cycle.

A gong signalled the start of the event, just as on the stock market: may the Blue Invest deal-making begin! For the fifth time, Blue Invest Day came back to Brussels, bringing together a growing community of investors, innovative SMEs and start-ups in the blue economy.

Today, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is in Greenland to inaugurate the EU Office in Nuuk – Europe's concrete presence in Greenland and in the wider Arctic region.

Over the last 4 months, a team of national researchers led by Tetra Tech and partners, a consortium contracted by the European Commission, have consulted about 200 fishers in the EU coastal member states in their local languages to define who they are, how they live, and what drives them.

Today, the European Commission published a questionnaire seeking the feedback from the public on policy options to better protect and manage sharks and related marine ecosystems.

New measures to enhance the EU’s water resilience and improve water quality and quantity will soon come into effect.