The FAO Workshop 2023
INLAND FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
8 - 14 October 2023
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE:
Europe’s inland aquatic resources are increasingly affected by stressors that interact to affect both humans and aquatic ecosystems in complex ways. These stressors include energy development, dams and other barriers to fish migration; water removal for domestic, industrial, and agricultural use; invasive species and disease; pollution; land management activities, such as timber harvest, grazing, and development; and climate-induced rising water temperatures and decreasing flows, drought, and flooding.
Countries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans would benefit from cutting-edge ecosystem science to improve their understanding of how human and natural stressors affect their aquatic ecosystems and how to address these challenges through coordinated and multidisciplinary data collection, synthesis and analysis, predictions and decision-support tools generated from multi-agency and international partnerships for shared inland waterbodies.
The University of South Bohemia has a state-of-the-art research center, CENAKVA, whose main objective is aquatic ecosystem conservation, together with associated national and international institutions with knowledge of global changes and environmental services. FAO, the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, and associated institutions for beneficiary countries in the REU region will jointly organize the onsite workshop on the conservation of freshwater ecosystems.
This regional workshop will raise the capacity for improved management and planning that support inland fisheries production, livelihoods of small-scale fishers and recreational fishers, healthy diets, as well as conservation of native species and aquatic ecosystems of Europe. In the face of climate change, which already affects European freshwater resources, scientific measures for ecosystem management and conservation allow a scientific assessment of ecosystem status and trends and provide evidence-based means for building ecosystem resilience.
CONTACTS:
Event organization:
Adéla Minaříková
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Phone: +420 724 504 922
