The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Fish and other seafood products are the most traded items in the world. Although many people consider coffee, tobacco or spices as the main trading business, it...
Over the last months of the project implementation, the BLUE SMART project team has been intensifying efforts in dissemination of results to make the wider public...
The final conference of the BLUE SMART project was held on 11th December in the assembly hall of the University of Zadar. The project partners presented the project's...
Plastic pollution is becoming one of the major global problems in environmental protection. It is estimated that 85% of marine litter consists of plastic litter...
Zadar County Rural Development Agency (AGRRA) is a public institution established by the County of Zadar with the aims, among many others, to develop sustainable...
Cromaris is a leading Croatian aquaculture company specialized in farming, processing and the sale of indigenous Adriatic fish and one of the ten biggest companies...
Mussels that naturally grow or are farmed in the Novigrad Sea are widely known as a high quality sea product. As early as 1873 Croatian naturalist Spiridon Brusina...
Associate professor Bosiljka Mustać from the Department of ecology, agronomy and aquaculture, University of Zadar, has presented Blue smart project on the 12th...
With ongoing globalization, organizations are increasingly confronted with worldwide competition. In order to build and sustain their competitive advantage, the...
Pen shell (Pinna nobilis) populations are rapidly decreasing in the Mediterranean due to a parasitic disease caused by a protozoan of the genus Haplosporidium. First...
At the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the world leaders' attention was focused on accelerated degradation...
On Monday, 14th May 2018, BLUE SMART project team organized the meeting with the representative of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)....
The new Ordinance on closed season for sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) entered into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette, 28th of March 2018....
On Tuesday, 27th of March 2018, the new on-line course "Introduction to Sustainable Fisheries Practice" was presented at the University of Zadar in Croatia. The...
With ongoing globalization, organizations are increasingly confronted with worldwide competition. In order to build and sustain their competitive advantage, the...
Almost all scientific studies worldwide indicate that we soon might run out of fish which we can catch, farm and eat. An average fish consumption per capita is 20kg...
On Tuesday, 20th of February 2018, in Valamar hotel Diamant, the workshop on marine protected areas issues was held. It was organized by Istarski škvoj fisheries...
WWF Adria organized the round table on the topic “Fishery improvement project for small pelagic fish in the Adriatic” on 11th and 12th January 2018 in...
The new graduate study "Sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems" started on Monday with first lectures at the University of Zadar. The study will enable a...
As a part of the second BLUE SMART project conference, a new graduate study of Sustainable Management of Aquatic Ecosystems has been presented. Speakers were...
The European Union hosts the fourth edition of the "Our Ocean" conference entitled "An Ocean for Life", which is being held in Malta on 5 and 6 October 2017.The...
The EU is the world's largest importer of fishery products, and 50% of imports come from developing countries
61%
world's fish stocks are maximally hunted
10%
world's fish stocks can be exploited more
29%
world's fish stocks are in the off
23kg
on average, eu per year consumes fishery products per person, of which 24% is waste on aquaculture products
85000
aquaculture in the EU employs a person
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