The report captures key discussions, ECOP leadership, community insights & priority actions aligned with the Ocean Decade and upcoming COP processes.
📘 Read the full report: lnkd.in/dqqS7ky3
#WIOMSA2025 #OceanDecade #OceanScience #OneOceanFuture #BlueEconomy
🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
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The session also featured Francisco Hernandez (VLIZ) presenting the FUST-funded SEAMARCS project & Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility (SLSMF) — supporting sea-level science & collaboration across regions.
#OceanDecade #Sealevel #WIOMSA2025
📸 @unesco-iocafrica.bsky.social
VLIZ and @unesco-iocafrica.bsky.social organized a special session at #WIOMSA2025 on “The UN Decade of Ocean Science: Bridging Science, Policy & Society in Africa.” Juana Jimenez joined the #OceanDecade panel to share Belgium’s experience in building & sustaining its National Decade Committee.
🌊 In our Africa series, fisheries analyst Maxwell Azali shares how our tools give visibility of fishing, supporting evidence-based policy & port state measures.
📍 With #WIOMSA2025 just wrapped, we’re highlighting how open data strengthens fisheries management across Africa. https://bit.ly/42lQRYC
🌊 Wrapping up #WIOMSA2025 in Mombasa! Global Fishing Watch led a hands-on training with 27 participants including government officials, scientists, students & NGOs, showing how open data & satellite tracking can strengthen fisheries management across Africa.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/42lQRYC
⚠️ Overfishing. ⚠️ Pollution. ⚠️ Habitat loss. ⚠️ Climate change.
Marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them are under threat.
Join us at #WIOMSA2025 to shape ocean solutions
🔗: https://bit.ly/477LD5u
#BlueValues #BlueEconomy #Trees4Resilience
👉Convened partners and community leaders to explore evidence-based approaches and chart next steps for scaling models that safeguard ocean health while strengthening local livelihoods.
#WIOMSA2025 #AABSWorldFish
@cgiar.org @wiomsa.bsky.social
👉Showcased practical tools, ranging from social protection and subsidies to market solutions and tenure rights that can enable and incentivize fairer coastal stewardship, with lessons from Tanzania🇹🇿, Mozambique🇲🇿, and Kenya🇰🇪.
#WIOMSA2025 #AABSWorldFish
@wiomsa.bsky.social @cgiar.org
👉Highlighted the vital role of aquatic foods in shaping healthier, more resilient, and equitable food systems across the Western Indian Ocean.
#WIOMSA2025 #AABSWorldFish
@wiomsa.bsky.social @cgiar.org
A #Thread 🧵
📣 Recap from Day 4 at #WIOMSA2025!
WorldFish took part in three key sessions today, shining a spotlight on blue foods and coastal communities.
The sessions today:
Are you interested in marine life?
Join is for an interesting workshop today, 2 October, at 14.00 in Arabuko 2 #WIOMSA2025
@wiomsa.bsky.social
3 camels on a white Sandy beach and a beautifully shallow blue tropical sea, with some palm trees in the foreground
Really happy to be attending #WIOMSA2025. Great talks, awesome networking and new collaborations in the making. And of course, the beautiful Indian Ocean in the background. 🧪🧬🐟🐠🦈🐡
📣 Join WorldFish's Sara Bonilla, Markose Zewdie and Emmanuel Mbaru in a session at #WIOMSA2025 titled: An Ocean of Food:The Science We Need for Sustainable Blue Food Futures.
📅 Thursday, Oct 2, 2025
🕑 14:00–17:30 EAT
#AABSWorldFish
CGIAR The Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association
This session could potentially lead to a regional cetacean action plan.
#wiomsa2025 #day2 #oneoceanonefuture #hudonet #oceanscience #marineconservation
#wiomsa2025 #oneoceanonefuture #hudonet #oceanscience #marineconservation
Recapping Day 2 at the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, the highlight of the day was a mini-session focused on Management of threats to marine megafauna in the WIO.
There are multiple threats such as fishing, [...]
#wiomsa2025 #day2 #oneoceanonefuture #hudonet #oceanscience #marineconservation
How do we make science heard?
That was the question driving today’s discussions on Day 3 of #WIOMSA2025, as the spotlight turned to science communication.
Oceans give more than we see: food, jobs, carbon storage and cultural value.
Marine ecosystems = survival + prosperity.
Join us at #WIOMSA2025 to discuss their full value:🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2s47pp8e
#BlueValues #MarineEcosystems #Trees4Resilience
#wiomsa2025 feeling nostalgic for my fisheries research days listening to presentation on otoliths and microchemistry! PhD flashbacks!
Day 2 of #WIOMSA2025 saw the spotlight on Ocean Literacy and Education in the WIO: Exploring Approaches and Assessing Impacts.
and quickly the grassy dancefloor filled up as attendee’s heard their favourite-favourites and had to move.
Well done! @wiomsa.bsky.social
#wiomsa2025 #oneoceanonefuture #hudonet #oceanscience #marineconservation
This is an extraordinary platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders, a bridge to connect knowledge and concrete action. There are seven HuDoNet members here to take advantage of the opportunity.
#wiomsa2025 #hudonet
More than 1200 “clever minds” were welcomed to the 13th Scientific Symposium by WIOMSA yesterday morning. This shows the phenomenal growth that has occurred since the first one three decades ago when just a handful of scientists gathered for the first symposium.
#wiomsa2025 #oneoceanonefuture
🗓️ 3 October 2025 - #WIOMSA2025 Special Session on #OceanAccounting!
Hear from countries in WIO leading in #OceanAccounts incl.
🇰🇪 🇬🇭 🇿🇦 🇲🇬 + others!
🔗 oceanaccounts.org/wiomsa-2025-...
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ @wiomsa.bsky.social
2/3 🌍 28 Sept - 3 Oct | @wiomsa 13th Scientific Symposium | Kenya
🔗 symposium.wiomsa.org
As part of #WIOMSA2025, there will be a special session on Advancing Sustainable Ocean Management through #OceanAccounting
⬇️ www.oceanaccounts.org/wiomsa-2025-...
Privileged to attend and present at #WIOMSA2025 this week! Catch me in the "Digital innovations" session 8 in Dodori at 11:30 on Thurs, at the #MarCOSIO special session in Barracuda at 14:00 on Thurs, or just come chat anytime during the week at the MarCOSIO booth - looking forward to engaging!
📢#AABSWorldFish is at #WIOMSA2025!
"The theme of the symposium emphasizes our unique opportunity to evaluate our shared challenges and explore the challenges that lie ahead."-@wiomsa.bsky.social President Marie-May Jeremie during the opening session.
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#wiomsa2025 Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed highlights that scientists need to change the world for prosperity for everyone! @worldfish.bsky.social
