Assessing the EU Common Fisheries Policy: Stepping up Efforts Towards Sustainability Wednesday 12Th September 2018 Manos Hotel

Assessing the EU Common Fisheries Policy: Stepping Up Efforts towards Sustainability

Wednesday 12th September 2018

Manos Hotel Premier, Brussels

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PROGRAMME WELCOME

09:15 Registration and Morning Refreshments DELEGATE LIST 10:00 Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ilona Denisenko - Co-chair PhD, IMHA – International Maritime Health Association

Maria Luisa Canals - Co-chair PhD, University of Cadiz, Spain

Olaf Jensen - Co-chair PhD, Centre for Maritime Health and Society, University of Southern Denmark

10:10 Evaluating the European Legislative Framework on Fisheries

Vanya Vulperhorst European Policy Advisor – Oceana

Sakari Kuikka Professor - University of Helsinki, Fisheries and Environmental Management Group

10:40 First Round of Discussions

11:10 Morning Coffee Break

11:30 The Needs for a EU Health Program in an EU Sustainable Fishing Program

Ilona Denisenko PhD, IMHA – International Maritime Health Association

Maria Luisa Canals PhD, University of Cadiz, Spain

Olaf Jensen PhD, Centre for Maritime Health and Society, University of Southern Denmark

12:00 Second Round of Discussions

12:30 Networking Lunch

13:30 Unlocking the Potential of the EU Aquaculture Industry

Douglas Waley Fish Welfare Programme Leader, Eurogroup for Animals

Lorella de la Cruz Iglesias Deputy Head of Unit – Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

14:00 Third Round of Discussions

14:30 Afternoon Coffee Break

14:50 Advancing the Support to Local Businesses and Coastal Communities

Urszula Budzich-Tabor Thematic & Territorial Coordinator, FARNET - Fisheries Area Network, European Commission

15:20 Fourth Round of Discussions

15:50 Chair’s Summary and Closing Remarks

16:00 Networking Reception and Refreshments

16:30 Symposium Close

** Please note that the programme and speakers are subject to change without notice **

DELEGATE WELCOME LIST

Name Title Organisation DELEGATE Country LIST EMFF Coordinator at the Esbjörn Andersson Swedish Board of Swedish Board of Agriculture Sweden Agriculture

EU Fisheries Klaudija Cremers ClientEarth Belgium Lawyer/Juriste

Stichting Vissenbescherming Paul Denekamp Board Member Netherlands (NGO)

Liaison Officer, FAO Isabelle Denis FAO Liaison Office Brussels Belgium Liaison Office Brussels

Carlos Tavares Ferreira Sustainability Director Stolt Sea Farm Spain

De Recirculerande Ola Öberg CFO Sweden Vattenbrukarna Sverige

Ivana Orlando Researcher - NGO SSICA Italy

Valentin Raymond Marine Policy Researcher ClientEarth Belgium

Fisheries Policy Officer, Ms Andrea Ripol The Pew Charitable Trusts Belgium Seas At Risk

Program Manager Wildlife Femmie Smit at the Dutch Society for De Dierenbescherming Netherlands the Protection of Animals

EUSBSR PAC Bioeconomy- Hans-Olof Stålgren Swedish Board of Agriculture Sweden Fishery and Aquaculture

Pim Visser EAPO President EAPO Netherlands

Research and Regulation James Warwick Sea Fish Industry Authority United Kingdom Advisor

BIOGRAPHIES WELCOME

Vanya Vulperhorst

European Policy Advisor – Oceana DELEGATE LIST

Vanya Vulperhorst has been a policy officer at Oceana’s Brussels office since March 2011. She has worked on Oceana's fisheries subsidies campaign and is currently working to stop illegal fishing, through EU seafood import controls as well as making the EU long distance fleet more transparent, accountable and sustainable. She has an MA in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins School of International Studies in Bologna Italy and Washington DC and an MSc in Marine Resource Management and Protection from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. Before working for Oceana she did a traineeship at the European Commission Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

Sakari Kuikka

Professor - University of Helsinki, Fisheries and Environmental Management Group

PhD Sakari Kuikka works as a full professor in Fisheries Biology at the University of Helsinki. He has been a member of the Scientific, Technological and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) for 16 years. He is specialised in Bayesian decision analysis and probabilistic interdisciplinary modelling of fisheries systems. In addition to fisheries science, an important part of his research is focused on oil spill risk analysis. He is the head of the Fisheries and Environmental Management Group (FEM group) which consists of biologists, social scientists, economists, statisticians, mathematicians and engineering scientists. Kuikka is also the chair of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Working Group on Risks of Maritime Activities in the Baltic Sea (WGMABS) which aims to develop a new oil risk management and advisory system for the Baltic Sea.

Kuikka has coordinated 4 Fisheries Policies or Horizon 2020 projects: 1) PRONE (risk methodology for fisheries), 2) ECOKNOWS (Bayesian models and learning databases in fisheries science), 3) IBAM (Bayesian integrative methods in environmental management) and 4) GOHERR (governance for human and ecosystem health management of Baltic Sea).

Currently Kuikka works on the following research projects: CEARCTIC: risk analysis of Arctic sea areas (shipping), GOHERR: risks caused by dioxin, MINOUW: Bayesian model to estimate fisheries discards, MAREFRAME: ecosystem approach to fisheries, SMARTSEA: methods to support the blue growth in Bothnian Bay and WISE: decision making under uncertainty wicked problems. His overall research funding has been 8.5 million euros during the last 14 years.

Ilona Denisenko

PhD, IMHA – International Maritime Health Association

Dr. Ilona Denisenko graduated in Medicine from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1994 and holds a specialisation in Surgery and General Medicine as well as a diploma in Emergency Medicine in 2002. In 1997, she was accredited by the Norwegian Maritime Directorate as their physician in Moscow. Since 1997 Dr. Denisenko is a Fellow of the International Maritime Health Association, where she has been the member of the Board of Directors for the last 8 years. She obtained her Master’s degree in Maritime Health in Rovira and Vergili University, Tarragona, Spain, in 2008 and her Specialization in Hyperbaric Medicine and Water Sports from the Cadiz University, Spain, in 2010.

BIOGRAPHIES WELCOME

Her experience includes positions as a physician for the Malaysian Maritime Directorate, German Vorlaufige Untersuchungen fur Deutsche Flagge, and as a trusted doctor DELEGATE at the Embassy of Switzerland in MoscowLIST. Dr. Ilona Denisenko lives in Moscow, Russia, and combines her Maritime Medicine activity with working as a Family Physician in the Regional Medical Office German Embassy Moscow, Ledamot of the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Sweden).

Maria Luisa Canals

PhD, University of Cadiz, Spain.

Maria Luisa Canals is Director of the Master in Maritime Health and other postgraduate courses of the University of Cadis - FUECA (Spain) from 2009. She is also the Director of the Technical and Scientific Section of the Spanish Society of Maritime Health (SEMM) and its scientific Journal “Medicina Maritima” of which she was a Board member and former President (1989-2004), organising many Congresses, Scientific Meetings and Projects.

Maria Luisa Canals is Chair of the International Maritime Health Association Research Group (IMHAR) and previously a Board member and President (1997-2007). She is responsible for Quality Standards and a medical doctor in the Maritime Health Department in the Mariners’ Social Institute of Tarragona, Spain (it belongs to the Labour, Immigration and Social Security Ministry). Since 1985 she has been an authorised doctor for Fitness Examinations for seafarers, fishermen and divers, Hospital Ship and telemedicine (B/H Esperanza del Mar). She has conducted epidemiological studies, published articles, co-authored several books for students and published in the Spanish Medical Guide on board. She has represented Spain in some WHO/ILO Tripartite Meetings and Consultations (Seafarers and AIDS, Guidelines for conducting medical examinations of seafarers, safety and health in the fishing industry ...). She did a stage in 2007 in Brussels Health Directory DG Research 7FP International Cooperation – European Commission.

Olaf Jensen

PhD - Centre for Maritime Health and Society, University of Southern Denmark

Dr. Olaf Jensen has been a Senior researcher at the Centre for Maritime Health and Society, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Danish University, Esbjerg, Denmark since 1992. Dr. Jensen graduated as a Danish occupational medical physician in 1978 and received his Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1998. Currently working on a reduced contract on distance, he is living in Panama as a researcher, publisher and teacher in an international network. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts, book chapters, scientific reports in Danish and presentations at international conferences.

His Research Interests include the following:

 Fishing health promotion  Occupational injury prevention  Preventive Epidemiology  Prevention of chronic non-contagious diseases and mental health  Evidence-based health prevention

BIOGRAPHIES WELCOME

Douglas Waley DELEGATE LIST Fish Welfare Programme Leader - Eurogroup For Animals

Douglas Waley has a degree in International Development, leading him via EU trade aspects to projects in Asian and African aquaculture. Attached to large scale research projects, he worked on bringing the participation of stakeholders into activities across a range of sustainability aspects. Taking the experiences of fish farmers producing under a welfare label in Scotland to fish farmers in East Asia brought interesting responses and Douglas closer to his current role leading the Fish Welfare Programme at Eurogroup for Animals. Eurogroup for Animals is the pan-European umbrella organisation for animal welfare, representing 64 member organisations at EU level.

Lorella de la Cruz Iglesias

Deputy Head of Unit – Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Lorella de la Cruz Iglesias holds a Law degree and a Masters in European Union Law from the Spanish Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has been working at the European Commission since July 2001. She has 17-years of experience on various aspects of EU Trade Policy at the Directorate-General for Trade (as coordinator of trade relations with Canada, legal advisor, coordinator for trade relations with MERCOSUR countries, and more recently Deputy Head of Unit for Latin America and Deputy Chief negotiator with MERCOSUR).

Ms. De la Cruz Iglesias joined the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) in April 2018 as Deputy Head of Unit for Blue Economy Sectors, Aquaculture and Maritime Spatial Planning. She is the coordinator of the aquaculture team in the Unit. Other than her mother tongue (Spanish), she speaks English, French and Portuguese.

Urszula Budzich-Tabor

Territorial & Thematic Coordinator – FARNET - The European Fisheries Areas Network

Expert in local development in rural and fisheries areas with 25 years of experience in programme and project management, capacity building, networking, analysis and evaluation at national and EU levels.

A graduate of the University of Warsaw (PL) and University of Bristol (UK), she has worked in the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and the Polish Council of Ministers. In the period 1991-2009 she was Director of the Rural Development Bureau at the Cooperation Fund in Poland, managing EU-funded projects and programmes totalling over €70 million. As one of the founders and member of the board of the Polish Rural Forum, she has initiated or been involved in most activities related to the preparation and implementation of the LEADER approach in Poland.

She has done extensive consultancy work in the area of Community-Led Local Development, rural civil society development, evaluation, entrepreneurship and social economy. Since June 2009 she is Thematic and Territorial Coordinator in FARNET (a European network supporting DG MARE to promote local development approach in fisheries areas). From 2014 until 2016 she was the key expert in charge of LEADER at the Contact Point of the European Network for Rural Development.

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DIRECTIONS

DELEGATE LIST Getting to the railway stations and airports

To Brussels Airport - Zaventem The hotel is within walking distance to the railway station Brussels-Nord with departures to and from Brussels Airport - and in direct connection to Brussels-Midi with the International lines Eurostar and Thalys. Up to 6 trains per hour connect the Brussels Airport to Brussels-North, Brussels-Central and Brussels-Midi stations. The airport express bus station is 100 meters from the hotel, and the hotel is 12 kilometres from Brussels Airport. To Brussels Charleroi Airport From Brussels-Midi, there is a Brussels City Shuttle every 30 minutes going to Brussels Charleroi Airport.

To Brussels-Central Station Walk from Thon Hotel to Rogier Metro Station and take Line 3 (Direction Churchill) or Line 4 (Direction Stalle P) until De Brouckere Metro Station (1 stop). From De Brouckere Metro station change to Line 1 (Direction Stockel) or Line 5 (Direction Hermann Debroux) until Gare Centrale Metro Station (1 stop).

To Brussels-Midi Station Walk from Thon Hotel to Rogier Metro Station and Take Line 3 (Direction Churchill) or Line 4 (Direction Stalle P) until Brussels-Midi Station (5 stops).

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