News release 6.5.2019

An EU experts meeting was held in Brussels on 3 May regarding Marine Knowledge.

The aim is to gather data on EMODnet database, so to provide data processing and reporting, especially for marine users of all EU marine areas, regarding bathymetry, bottom, physicochemical and biological parameters and existing economic/human activities.

On behalf of the aquaculture industry, Nikos Anagnopoulos presented the needs of enterprises, especially of the SMEs. He asked that the Ministries and the National Research Centers of the member states to make available to the aquaculturists all the existing knowledge and he proposed a consultation to be carried out with the sectoral institutions, in order to establish a mutually beneficial cooperation.