Baltic Sea Brief 62: Four measures for Baltic Sea fisheries in 2024
Last year was a dark year for the Baltic Sea environment and fish species. We list four essential measures needed to reduce the negative impact of fishing on the Baltic Sea.
Six new research projects for a living Baltic Sea
Each year, BalticWaters awards grants to a number of research projects that have the potential to contribute to a healthier Baltic Sea. Read about this year’s projects here.
NGOs comments on the 2024 fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea
EU ministers set quotas for Baltic herring that defy fisheries laws PRESS RELEASE from: BalticWaters, Coalition Clean Baltic, ClientEarth, the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, Deutsche Umwelthilfe,The Fisheries Secretariat, Oceana, Seas At Risk, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, and WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme Luxembourg, 24 October 2023: Today EU fisheries ministers have taken decisions concerning […]
Baltic Sea Brief 58: Let the Baltic Sea fish recover – and the fish caught become food for humans
A few decades ago, there were fish from the Baltic Sea to eat: cod and herring as well as coastal fish such as pike and perch, etc. Today, it is difficult to find any of these species in the fish counter. The pickled herring we eat at Midsummer is caught in the North Sea and […]
Report: Vision for a healthy Baltic Sea
We have developed a vision for a healthy Baltic Sea based on the current state of knowledge and interviews with scientists.
Project ReCod receives support from Ørsted
Ørsted is a world leader in offshore wind energy and wants to help improve marine biodiversity by supporting ReCod.
This year’s cod release
Join us below the surface as around 50 cod from the ReCod project are released back into the Baltic Sea.
New ambassador for BalticWaters
Meet Joakim Odelberg, film and photo journalist and BalticWater’s new ambassador!
First release of cod larvae this year
This week it was finally time for the first release of cod larvae within the ReCod project!
Baltic Sea Brief 57: A very worrying trend
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has published its advice for fishing in the Baltic Sea in 2024. Before analysing it, we want to highlight a very worrying trend: Three years ago, virtually all fishing of Baltic cod was stopped, after stocks had been declining steadily for several years. Now ICES […]
