EMFAF funded Work Programmes

EMFAF Scheme

Project Summaries

Seafood Scaling & New Market Development

• Whitefish Strategy Development
• Enabling the Pelagic Strategy

Seafood Capacity Building

• ICES Annual Science Conference 2022
• Leveraging BIM’s Sponsorship of Irish Skipper Expo

Seafood Training

• Elevate Talent Integration Programme

• Emerging Talent Programme

• Inshore Fisheries Strategy-Digital Literacy

Seafood Processing Innovation

• Challenge Focused Innovation System

• Green Seafood Programme

• Innovation Advisory Programme

• Innovation Process

• Innovation Seafood Processing Technologies

• Seafood Industry Training Supports

Sustainable Fisheries

• Clean Oceans

• Fisheries Information Dissemination

• Fishery Improvement Projects

• Labour Force Analysis of the Irish Fishing Fleet

• National Fishermens’ Development Group(NFDG)

• Novel Fishing Technologies to improve environmental performance

• Seafood sector carbon footprint study

• Sustainability performance of the seafood sector

• Sustainable development of mesopelagic resources

• Sustainability Standard Programmes

Inshore Fisheries Conservation

• Inshore Fisheries Strategy implementation – Inshore census

• Supporting networking in the inshore fisheries sector

• Developing a formed bait for the commercial whelk fishery

Knowledge Gateway

• Aquaculture Accelerator

• Aquaculture Industry service

• Aquaculture remote classroom

• Certification services

• Fish welfare programme

• Industry working groups

• Invasive alien species

• Marine challenges

• Seaweed development services

• Shellfish monitoring & food safety

• Shellfish survey programme

• Taste the Atlantic