A wide range of issues from new technologies in passive fishing gears to solutions of unwanted bird/seal bycatch were presented at a FISH seminar on “Low Impact Fisheries” in Berlin on November 18.
After an extensive review of examples of low impact fisheries in the Baltic Sea region, the day was concluded with discussions on how low impact fisheries can be applied to the current reform on the Common Fisheries Policy, to be implemented in 2013.
Presentations were made by:
- Jonas Hentati-Sundberg, Sweden on “The effects of bottom-trawling”
- Waldemar Moderhak, Sea Fisheries Institute, Poland, on “T90 Technology for Baltic cod fishing: Minimising negative consequences for the marine environment”
- Linas Lozys, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania, on “Application of alternative fishing gears aiming to reduce the use of gillnets and wintering bird by-catch in the Baltic Sea coastal fisheries”
- Kristin Johansson, Öresundsfonden, Sweden, on “Low impact coastal fisheries: best practice examples from the Sound between Denmark and Sweden”
- Ebba Willerström, Baltic Seabird Research Project, Sweden, on “Bird bycatch in the Baltic Sea”
- Sara Königson, Institute of Coastal Research, Swedish Board of Fisheries “Seals and fisheries: reducing the conflict with alternative fishing gear”
- Tiit Raid, Estonian Marine Institute, Estonia, on “Herring fishery in the North-eastern Baltic Sea: gear and stock effects”
- Magnus Eckeskog, FISH, Sweden, on “Low impact fisheries options and links to CFP reform”