The Baltic Sea is a global hotspot for seabird bycatch, with an estimated 76 000 birds caught in fishing gear every year. In a new collaboration, BirdLife International is trying to tackle this issue together with a group of Lithuanian fishermen.
A new study indicates that climate change may be stunting fish growth. Fish sizes in the North Sea have shrunk dramatically, and scientists believe warmer ocean temperatures and less oxygenated water could be the causes. Could this be the case for the Baltic Sea cod?
Meeting in Gdynia yesterday for its annual General Assembly, the Baltic Sea Regional Advisory Council took the first formal steps to implement the new Common Fisheries Policy. It has been renamed the Baltic Sea Advisory Council and adjusted its membership base to reflect the new 60/40 split.
The Danish Eel Expedition headed by DTU Aqua is in the Sargasso Sea between Bermuda and the West Indies to investigate the relationship between climate related changes in eel spawning grounds and the sharp decline of eel in Europe.
Yesterday, the European Parliament brought five years of efforts to reform the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy to near conclusion by adopting the final piece of legislation in the “reform package” – the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.
New study by researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Center reveals that misreporting of fish catches in the Baltic Sea is and leads to wrong estimates for fishing quotas. Which could have severe consequences for an already strained Baltic Sea ecosystem.
New study report by the European Parliament aims to provide a comprehensive qualitative analysis of the EU implementation of the discard ban and the adoption of MSY to multispecific and mixed fisheries.
A little over a week before the expected vote in the European Parliament on the new European Fisheries and Maritime Fund, the Fisheries Committee approved the deal struck on 28 January.
Last week the Inter-institutional Task Force set up to resolve the long-standing deadlock on multiannual management plans for fish stocks came to an agreement on the way forward.
The European Commission public consultation on the Commission services second draft of the new de minimis Regulation.