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2018-09-24 Press room

Fisheries Brief No. 9: Responsibility rests with the fishery ministers

The EU Commission has issued its proposals for quotas for next year’s cod fishing in the Baltic Sea. This is a stage in the immense bureaucracy that we described in Fisheries Brief no. 6. But attempts to maintain vigorous cod stocks have failed. With a few exceptions, commercial fishing in the past 20 years has not managed to catch sufficient cod to meet the quotas. The stocks have been consistently overestimated, which is very serious.

2018-09-18 Press room

New Article: Eutrophication of seabeds – can the vicious circle be stopped?

Eight years ago, BalticSea2020 launched the large-scale restoration project Living coast. The project is being conducted at Björnö bay in the Stockholm archipelago, and it aims to demonstrate that eutrophic bays around the Baltic Sea can once more achieve good ecological status. When the project first began, eutrophication in the bay was largely caused by phosphorus leaching out of the seabed. Today, that leaching has stopped, but how has that come about? Do the conditions in the water and seabed play any role in which method is most effective?

2018-09-03 Press room

Commission proposes Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2019

The Commission's proposal for fishing opportunities on cod in the Baltic Sea 2019 was published on Friday 31th of August. For the eastern Baltic cod stock, of which BalticSea2020 has been deeply involved with, the Commission's proposal is inadequate.

2018-08-10 Press room

Fisheries Brief No. 8: Is the Minister for Rural Affairs in charge of fishing matters?

Bottom trawling is one of the reasons why Baltic Sea cod stocks are in crisis. Stopping bottom trawling is one measure that could be implemented immediately and would have a significant impact on the ability of stocks to recover. That is why it is interesting that most political parties stated during the summer that they want to work to get the EU to stop bottom trawling for cod in the Baltic Sea.