Past Events

VASAB, a cooperation of ministers responsible for spatial planning and development of the Baltic Sea Region together with PartiSEApate project is organising a Baltic Maritime Spatial Planning Forum on 17-18 June 2014 in Riga, Latvia. It will bring together approx. 200 MSP practitioners, researchers, stakeholders and decision makers from the region to share experience in MSP and discuss specific practical aspects of MSP. Draft agenda and concept is attached for your information.

The topics covered by the plenary sessions and workshops will include discussion on readiness to introduce MSP throughout the Baltic Sea region, stakeholder/sector perspectives on the benefits and challenges of MSP for achieving blue growth in the Region, how to enhance Baltic Sea wide cooperation and consultation on MSP, multi-level public participation in MSP, and research and data needs for MSP.  The discussions will be supplemented by an exhibition of case studies, tools and data modules relevant for planning.

Please see below for more information.

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• Baltic Maritime Spatial Planning Forum

Fisheries points will be discussed on Tuesday 17th June. You can follow the public debates and the press conferences by video streaming. On the agenda: Omnibus Regulation, Discard plans and the establishment of a 2014 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for Capelin. For more info see agenda below.

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• Agriculture and Fisheries Council
• Agenda

Fish Dependence is the day on which imports have to be relied upon because national catches would have run out if only home-caught fish had been eaten since 1 January.

Bulgaria relies on imports for approximately seven months per year, to satisfy domestic demand for fish products.

Fish dependence is a powerful concept that illustrates how far over consumption outstrips domestic resources. One way to illustrate this trend is to represent a country’s degree of self-sufficiency as a calendar day – the day in the year when a country has consumed its own supply and must begin sourcing its products from elsewhere, hence the term ‘fish dependence day’. For the EU this date is currently 11th July, after which the EU depends on foreign resources. Fish dependence day is calculated by New Economics Foundation (NEF).

The 2nd International Maritime Congress will take place in Szczecin, Poland, June 12th-14th. Four themes will be discussed: i) Polish maritime economy – the challenges and development chances, ii) Maritime economy – education, research and development, iii) Taking advantage of sea resources and iv) Ecology and safety at sea. The BALTFISH Presidence Mr. Normunds Riekstins has been invited to give a presentation about BALTFISH and the challenges facing Baltic Sea fishermen. For more information please see link below.

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• Information and registration

This is a "best practice workshop" part of the joint project between DG ENVI and DG Mare on developing guidelines for sustainable aquaculture in the EU. The project focus is to show all legal aspects and make sure development on new AqC is in line with all environmental legislation and also to find the good or even best practices.

The project welcome contact from any and all regarding reports/facts they should be aware of, so do send them all relevant info you have. Project leader is the UK organization CEFAS and they are running this SUSAQ project. You can find relevant information on the project website, see link below.

Agenda forthcoming.

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• Project website

For invitation and agenda please see below. You can find more information on the BSAC webpage or link below.

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• BSAC

Information and agenda forthcoming.

Fish Dependence is the day on which imports have to be relied upon because national catches would have run out if only home-caught fish had been eaten since 1 January.

Despite having by far the largest fleet in the EU, Spain relies on imports for over seven months per year to satisfy domestic demand for fish products.

Fish dependence is a powerful concept that illustrates how far over consumption outstrips domestic resources. One way to illustrate this trend is to represent a country’s degree of self-sufficiency as a calendar day – the day in the year when a country has consumed its own supply and must begin sourcing its products from elsewhere, hence the term ‘fish dependence day’. For the EU this date is currently 11th July, after which the EU depends on foreign resources. Fish dependence day is calculated by New Economics Foundation (NEF).

More info forthcoming. 

Α Regular meeting of the Water & Marine Directors from all Member States, EU candidate countries, EFTA Countries, as well as representatives of the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, will take place within the framework of the Greek Presidency.

During the meeting, the latest developments and future plans on European and International water and marine management issues will be discussed with a particular focus on the Water and Marine Strategy Framework Directives (MSFD).

Agenda forthcoming.

Links:

• http://www.gr2014.eu/events/expert-meetings/informal-meeting-european-water-marine-directors