Het is al lange tijd één van de belangrijkste vragen in het visonderzoek in de Waddenzee: kunnen vissen ongehinderd van de zoute zee naar het zoete achterland zwemmen en vinden ze dan voldoende plek om zich voort te planten?

The EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD) requires the member states (MS) to pursue Blue Growth while ensuring good environmental status (GES) of sea areas. An ecosystem-based approach (EBA) should be used for the integration of the aims. However, the MSPD does not specify how the MS should arrange …

Sustainable production of fish and seafood products contributes to achieving the economic, social, and environmental goals in fisheries. Different sustainability strategies are applied to achieve these three goals. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the status and implementation of various sustainable …

Coastal and marine cultural heritage (CMCH) is at risk due to its location and its often indefinable value. As these risks are likely to intensify in the future, there is an urgent need to build CMCH resilience. We argue that the current CMCH risk management paradigm narrowly focuses on the present and …

White paper: Circular tourism and support from local authorities The white paper proposes six strategic steps for local authorities to enable the tourism sector transition to a circular economy in coastal destinations. The steps draw from the experience of the EU 2 Seas FACET project as well as relevant …

Managed realignment is the landward relocation of flood infrastructure to re-establish tidal exchange on formerly reclaimed land. Managed realignment can be seen as a nature-based flood defence system that combines flood protection by the realigned dike (artificial) and restored saltmarshes (nature-based). …

Vorige week organiseerde de Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance een workshop over het herstel van de zee-egels op Saba. Deze workshop hielp 21 koraalexperts uit het Caribisch gebied en meer dan 65 online aanwezigen om een uitgebreid beeld te krijgen van de algehele situatie van de Diadema zee-egel in het …

In april 2022, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), together with the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein, hosted a sea urchin (Diadema Antillarum) restoration workshop on Saba. During the workshop experts and representatives from the Dutch Caribbean and Jamaica came together to …

At Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (HVHL) in Leeuwarden, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum has been cultivated to help restore the coral reefs around Saba and St. Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands). The first young urchins bred in Leeuwarden were released on March 24th to the Rotterdam …

Een tropische zee-egelsoort kan de redder worden van de Caribische koralenriffen. Deze Diadema antillarium is echter zeldzaam en moeilijk te kweken. Bij Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein lukte het om een continue kweek op te zetten. Tom Wijers is onderzoeker bij het Diadema-project: "Praktijkgericht onderzoek …