Workshop 1 - Essential Fish Habitats as key elements to establishing area-based management measures

• Protecting Essential Fish Habitat on the U.S. West Coast by John Stadler (NOAA Fisheries)

• State-of-play for the protection of EFH in the Mediterranean Sea by Pilar Marin (OCEANA)

• Ready-to-use science to take action on overexploited species: the case of the hake nurseries avoidance by Jean-Noël Druon (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

• What we know about EFHs in the Strait of Sicily and how we can use them to improve the status of demersal resources” by Fabio Fiorentino (Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine)

• Localization of a deep water EFH in the south Adriatic and central-southern Tyrrhenian seas: characteristics and potential role for fishery management objectives by Maria Teresa Spedicato (COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca, Stazione Sperimentale per lo Studio delle Risorse del Mare)

• Integrating essential fish habitats into fisheries management and marine conservation. An ongoing process in France by Olivier Le Pape (AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Center)

Workshop 2 - Future perspectives after the revolution: the rise of tracking devices for monitoring and modelling of fisheries

• Identifying clandestine behaviors using VMS data - estimates of transhipment and FAD user by Chris Wilcox (CSIRO Australia)

• The use of voluntary VMS systems on small scale vessels, issues and opportunities by Ahmad Catur Widyatmoko (CSIRO Australia)

• Exploring the use of AIS data for fisheries monitoring: defining vessels of interest, estimating associations, and developing metrics of risk by Jessica Ford (CSIRO Australia)

• Challenges and opportunities in the process of developing and implementing an analytical toolkit for fisheries monitoring by Denise Hardest (CSIRO Australia)

• The Fishery and Oceanography Observing System (FOOS): a tool for oceanography and fisheries science by Bernardo Patti (CNR-IAS)

• Fishing effort estimates, data limitations, trip behavior indices and economic perspectives: A paradigm of methods applied on the Greek fisheries by Irida Maina & Stefanos Kavadas (Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece)

• AIS fisheries data in support of the Maritime Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD): modelling challenges and policy implications by Maurizio Gibin, Andrea Bazzanini (DGMARE D.2 Fisheries and aquaculture, Directorate / Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Varese, Sustainable resources, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Varese)

• Joining tracking devices data with surveys and sampling of catches/landings: a new generation of models for the Mediterranean Sea? by Tommaso Russo, Lorenzo D’Andrea, Simone Franceschini & Stefano Cataudella (Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture​ - Dept. of Biology - University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Workshop 3 - PANACEA : Promoting co-management as an innovative tool for the sustainable use of marine natural resources

• Introduction by Dania Abdul Malak​ (ETC-UMA, University of Malaga)

• Conclusions by Dania Abdul Malak​ (ETC-UMA, University of Malaga)

Workshop 4 - Prevention and reduction of marine litter from fisheries and aquaculture and related impacts on marine ecosystems

• Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management in the Mediterranean by Gaetano Leone (UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan, Barcelona Convention)

• Marine litter : international context, state of knowledge and awareness raising by Fabienne McLellan (OceanCare)

• The Black Sea Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter and provisions to minimizing the input of marine litter from fisheries and aquaculture by Irina Makarenko (Black Sea Commission Permanent Secretariat)

• FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for the Marking of Fishing Gear – a tool to assist efforts to address abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) and IUU Fishing by Joanna Toole (FAO)

• MARELITT Baltic: Reducing the impact of marine litter in the form of derelict fishing gear in the Baltic Sea by Andrea Stolte (WWF Germany)

Workshop 5 - Toward operational fisheries oceanography in the Mediterranean Sea: gaps, challenges, opportunities from openaccess data and integrated tools

• Integration of CMEMS physical/biogeochemical information in a Mediterranean ecosystem model: toward mixed fishery management by Simone Libralato, Davide Agnetta, Gianpiero Cossarini, Stefano Salon, Cosimo Solidoro (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS)

• Ecosystem modelling in the Mediterranean Sea and operational Oceanography by Cosimo Solidoro (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS)

• Towards OFO in the Mediterranean: Identified gaps and challenges for implementation by Diego Alvarez-Berastegui (Sistema d’observació i predicció costaner de les Illes Balears (SOCIB))

Workshop 6 - Complementaries between MPAs and fisheries spatial measures for area-based management (including SPAMIs, FRAs and national fishing reserves)

• The Role of EBSAs in Supporting Marine Spatial Planning by Joseph Appiott (CBD Secretariat)

• The role of Fisheries Restricted Areas (FRAs) to protect vulnerable ecosystems and essential fish habitats in the Mediterranean and Black Sea by Miguel Bernal (GFCM Secretariat)

• Mediterranean progress in MPAs development towards Aichi targets 6 & 11 and SDG 14: Relations with fisheries reserves, FRAs, Priority Conservation Areas for SPAMIs, VMEs and EBSAs by Daniel Cebrian (UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan, SPA/RAC)

• Fishing benefits of MPAs. Socio-economic analysis of the services provided by MPA focused on fisheries by Raffaele Mancini (UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan, Plan-Bleu)

• MPAs practitioners networking to support fisheries resources management by Purificació Canals (MedPan)

• The network of national MPAs and NATURA 2000 sites in Italy - Fishing management measures for biodiversity conservation by Leonardo Tunesi (ISPRA-Italy)

• MPAs for fisheries management purposes in Mediterranean Morocco by Mohammed Malouli Idrissi (INRH-Morocco)