Ocean pact should sustainably manage the Ocean and safeguard biodiversity but also drive sustainable blue bioeconomy ...

including trade, transport, tourism, safety, security, fisheries, energy, all important in today's geopolitical context ... and policies should be harmonised, and viewed in a holistic way ...
fishers mention the many policies they have to deal with ...

Agriculture is next in Session 2 : Stoyan Tchoukanov a farmer from the European Economic and Social Committee and Elli Tsiforou from Copa-Cogeca

Both projects look at the changes in the general ecosystems, #MarineLife and interactions with freshwater inflow in the #BlackSea

Adrian Stanica from #GeoEcoMar the coordinator of #DOORS on the Black Sea - what we know about the Black Sea is that we don't know what we don't know in the Black Sea - we mostly know what happens above 200m but below that we know very little ... DOORS and #BridgeBS have helped but lots still needed

The #EuropeanProject has gone up to 72% in people's appreciation across Europe, but has gone down in Bulgaria (62%) and Romania... we need to give the right recognition of what the @ec.europa.eu and the EU is doing for all of us...

Milen Baltov - highlights the #Burgas vision paper for the #BlackSea - the Black Sea SRIA include the BlackSea knowledge Bridge, the Black Sea Blue economy, etc.

First panel on opening DOORS to the Black Sea - with Eleni Manousiadi, Violeta Slabakova, Milen Baltov, Adrian Stanica, Victor Negrescu, Stefan Musoiu, Charlina Vitcheva and Rory Scarrott

...Very well aligned with the #MARE initiative for coordinating #OceanObservations and the #EU_DTO #EOOS - extremely important to continue this work and should work with the #MissionOcean #EU_DTO ...
Discussed the #OceanPact at the #Council yesterday. ... highlight the importance of #OceanLiteracy

Elisabetta Balzi from DG RTD- talking about the present and future of the #BlackSea - insitu observations and #DTO of the Black Sea!
Mission letter about clean Europe requires research and innovation, also highlights the #SBEP and the #MissionOcean!