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KICK-OFF EVENT
EUROPEAN FISHERIES
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Vigo, 18th May 2010.
KICK-OFF EVENT
"The presentation of the Kick off meeting was a
success".
More than 70 people were registered in the meeting.
Download the
conclusions and the
presentations made at the Kick
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The European
Fisheries Technology Platform
has been presented during
the industrial fair “Navalia”.
This initiative will coordinate
the R&D policies in the fishery
sector in the European
countries.
The President of Europeche Javier
Garat assured this issue during the presentation of
the Platform. He was accompanied by the Conselleira
del Mar of the Galician government Rosa Quintana
Garat affirmed that “The European
Commission stimulated the creation of this Platform
in order to have the coordination among the R&D
initiatives of the different countries and for the
individual initiatives to be shared”
The President of Europeche remembered
that “the European fishery sector manifest
exploitation’s high costs and it suffers from the
consequences of low fish prices and the crisis”.
Among the platform’s objectives
Javier Garat emphasized the importance of providing
a common European approaching in R&D”, also it is
important to offer a long term view in fisheries
technologies, to reach a consensus of a route map
and an agenda in future researches, as well as to
mobilize a community of public and private resources
in order to be able to carry out these activities
He also said that “research programs
are necessary and we must achieve they will help to
the relationships among the enterprises”.
Furthermore, he said that enterprises
in the sector, scientific organization in EU,
universities, public administration or trade union
will have the opportunity to participate in the
Platform. He pleads for a flexible organization that
will let to react to the fishery sector necessities
in R&D.
Rosa Quintana commented that the
fishery activities have to keep up with the times in
order to get advantages of competitors.
The Conselleira also said that we
share the worry and the interest for the future
maritime and fishery’s activities in Europe.
Quintana also pleads for “the
innovation and the competitive”, and she stated that
Navalia and E-Fishing are a good example for the
necessity of work together in order to advance.
As the fishery Autonomic responsible
stated “to join synergies” will help to save
resources in order to aim at the future.
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