Sciaena - Ocean # Conservation # Awareness

OCEAN2012, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, Seas at Risk, Transport and Environment, EU Fisheries Control Coalition

None declared

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

17,500€

Sciaena is a Portuguese-based non profit organization with national and international scope, which was created in 2006 by University of Algarve Marine Biology and Fisheries students. It envisions a healthy marine environment and an informed population engaged in its conservation. Sciaena’s mission is to promote the improvement of the marine environment by encouraging the sustainability of fisheries and other forms of use and minimizing the impacts of pollution through knowledge, education, communication and political intervention. It has been developing its work in partnership with various social actors - other NGOs, local authorities, educational and research institutions, among others, always inviting the public and interested stakeholders to take part in its activities. Mostly dependent on voluntaries in the early years and even now, since 2013 Sciaena has registered a stable level of revenues and personnel dedicated to the NGO. Since April 2013 and through a consultancy with The Pew Environment Group on Fisheries Policy and Research, Sciaena has worked on the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform and is now accompanying its implementation, as well as deep sea and tuna fisheries legislation. Since April 2016 Sciaena is a grantee of Funding Fish, with a project that aims at implementing the CFP and improving the environmental performance of fisheries in Portugal and the South Western Waters of the European Union. In 2018 Sciaena received grants from The Ocean Foundation and Fundação Oceano Azul, to work in Atlantic tuna conservation and sea horse conservation in Ria Formosa, Portugal.
In 2019 Sciaena secured considerable additional funding, from Oceans 5 and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, to engage in Marine Protected Areas, Fisheries Control and Marine Litter, as well as funding from the Faro City Hall. In 2020 Sciaena secured aditional funding from Recircula and the Algarve Cultural Regional Directorate.

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- Farnet
- Fisheries Advisory Councils
- EU Fisheries Control Coalition

- Consultancy on portuguese and european fisheries science, policy and management.

- Campaigning for greater environmental sustainability of the common fisheries policy and other fisheries related legislation.

- Engaged in EU legislative processes that will tackle the issue of Marine Litter.

- Marine Biodiversity.

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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	29 Oct 2021	Location	Hybrid
  Subject	To discuss with the NGOs the perspectives for the 2022 annual fishing opportunities ahead of international consultations and the December AGRIFISH Council.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) Carmen Preising (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Seas At Risk ClientEarth AISBL OCEANA Blue Marine Foundation Fiskesekretariatet Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. Nederlandse Elasmobranchen Vereniging

• Date	14 Oct 2020	Location	virtual
  Subject	To discuss the upcoming Commission proposals for fishing opportunities for the North Sea/ Atlantic and for the Deep Sea.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) Carmen Preising (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	OCEANA Seas At Risk Funding Fish Fundació ENT The Pew Charitable Trusts

• Date	16 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels - Webex call
  Subject	Workings of the Advisory Councils
  DG	Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Charlina Vitcheva (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	Fundació ENT Stichting De Noordzee BirdWatch Ireland Stichting BirdLife Europe Fiskesekretariatet Eurogroup for Animals OCEANA ClientEarth AISBL European Anglers Alliance Seas At Risk The Pew Charitable Trusts WWF European Policy Programme Coalition Clean Baltic Nederlandse Elasmobranchen Vereniging MEDREACT

• Date	16 Jul 2020	Location	Video meeting
  Subject	To discuss the fishing opportunities exercise for 2021, in particular for the Baltic Sea, as well as issues related to the Biodiversity Strategy.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Carmen Preising (Cabinet member) Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet member) Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	ClientEarth AISBL The Pew Charitable Trusts Funding Fish WWF European Policy Programme Seas At Risk vzw Coalition Clean Baltic OCEANA

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To discuss outcome of the Council of December 2019 and the NGO views regarding the process of setting the TACs and quotas
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet member) Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	OCEANA Funding Fish The Pew Charitable Trusts Seas At Risk vzw

• Date	28 Nov 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sardines, Deep Sea Council, December Council
  DG	Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Joao Aguiar Machado (Director-General)

• Date	28 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	South Western Waters Advisory Council
  DG	Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Joao Aguiar Machado (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	Seas At Risk vzw OCEANA WWF European Policy Programme