On Wednesday the 17th of November SEMRU held its second annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop.
The workshop was opportunity for researchers and policy makers in the area of marine socio-economics, working in Ireland, to get together to meet and discuss their on-going work. The J.E. Cairns School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway hosted the event. The work shop was divided up into 3 sessions.
The topic of the morning session was “The Irish Ocean Economy: National and Sectoral Perspectives ”. The second session was dedicated to “Water Quality and the Environment” and the evening session was entitled “Fisheries Management in Ireland”. Speakers on the day discussed such diverse marine socio-economic topics as the role of fishers in the formation of scientific marine policy to the valuation of the Irish Ocean Economy.
Please seet SEMRU on NUI,Galway's website for additional information.