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RSS![Meduza and all its employees © Marko Jurković](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-06/meduza.jpg?itok=4B9h9U9o)
Founded in 1989 in the central Croatian city of Karlovac, Meduza started as a small family-run company with a big dream: to revolutionise the trade in fish and fishery products in Croatia and beyond. Thanks to EU funding, Meduza has achieved its dream. The company now has a modern processing
![Interior of the Aquaculture Remote Classroom ©BIM](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-05/The-interior-design-of-the-ARC.png?itok=nWOZEfQ7)
In many countries around the EU, small-town coastal communities are struggling to retain young people in the aquaculture sector. This is also the case on Ireland’s west coast, where local oyster producers are looking for new and innovative ways to promote this culturally and historically significant
![Nephrops’ trawl boarded and opened on the sorting table by the fisher with his trainee in the rear, © Solenne Le Guennec](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-05/Nephrops-trawl-copyright-solenne-le-guennec.jpg?itok=Y1nhLWd1)
Starting a business is not always easy. This is certainly the case in the world of fisheries, where there is so much to know. In France, to help young people enter this old and important trade, the Finistère regional Fisheries and Marine Aquaculture Committee created the EU-funded Pathways to
![Sea Rangers collecting a plastics sampling net © Sea Ranger Service](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-04/Sea_Rangers_0.jpg?itok=ggq1OSEN)
The mission of the Dutch startup Sea Ranger Service is to restore 1 million hectares of ocean biodiversity by the year 2040, while training 20,000 young people for a maritime career.
![Scene from practical rescue and survival training at sea, ©Rok Sorta](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-04/Scene-from-practical-rescue-and-survival-training-at-sea.jpg?itok=GzR-enYf)
With a little less than 50 km of coastline, fishers in Slovenia often need to be able to diversify. This is why the maritime school of Portorož partnered with local fishers and Istra fisheries local action group to launch an EU-funded training programme “Be a fisher!”,
![BBMBC participants to a meeting](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-04/bbmbc.png?itok=Cx5nsOjN)
The European Green Deal envisages a central role for the blue economy. For this to happen, the blue economy needs a large pool of highly-qualified and skilled professionals. Yet today, many blue economy sectors have difficulties finding the right people.
![Laboratory of UAB (Barcelona, Spain) where MER-CLUB bioremediation candidates are grown. With Carla Pereira (UAB) and Elena Hernández del Amo (UAB).](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-03/2023-03-29-Mer-club-02.jpg?itok=ECQykn6w)
MER-CLUB is an ambitious scientific project which aims to tackle the issue of mercury pollution in marine sediments. Mercury pollution is a global problem with large environmental, socio-economic and health impacts.
![Hydro Volta co-founder and CEO George Brik showcasing the start-up's patented desalination technology ©Hydro Volta](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-03/Hydro-Volta.jpg?itok=_zGdELVr)
Hydro Volta is a Belgian start-up that proposes a sustainable method of producing drinking water from seawater, addressing the global water shortage in an economical and ecological way.
![Emily T. Griffiths and Jacob Tougaard, Aarhus University, on board the research vessel Aurora, holding one of the recording devices used for the monitoring.©Ecoscience, Aarhus University, 2021](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-03/Emily-and-Jacob-research-vessel-Aurora.jpg?itok=MpcV6ucR)
Re-routing shipping lanes is one way to reduce the effects of underwater noise on the marine environment. Until now, ocean scientists have not been able to study how large-scale diversions of this kind might affect noise levels or marine life.
![Detail of hands showing microplastics on the beach ©David Pereiras/stock.adobe.com](https://oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2023-03/AdobeStock_269097019-microplastics_1.jpg?itok=2YbAMP2o)
Knowing where marine litter comes from is fundamental to achieve a healthy marine environment. And this is exactly what the Finnish EU-funded RoskatPois! (LitterAway!) project set out to do.