Past Events

Upcoming events
Oct
29

ICES ACOM web-conference to finalize advice on eel

Location: Online

Dates: 29 October - 21 February 2025

Mar
27

Environment Council

Location: Brussels, Belgium/ hybrid

Dates: 27 March 2025

Mar
25

ICES Baltic Salmon and Trout Assessment Working Group (WGBAST 2025)

Location: Online

Dates: 25 - 26 March 2025

Mar
24

Agriculture and Fisheries Council

Location: Brussels, Belgium/ hybrid

Dates: 24 March 2025

Mar
20

Workshop on Seals & Cormorants in the North and Baltic Seas

Location: Luleå, Sweden

Dates: 20 March 2025

On March 20, 2025, the NSAC and BSAC will jointly host a Workshop on Seals & Cormorants in the North and Baltic Seas. The date has been changed from the previously announced one due to scheduling conflicts with other meetings. The workshop will be held in-person only in Luleå, Sweden, and both BSAC and NSAC members, as well as observers, are welcome to attend.

The discussion surrounding predation by seals and cormorants, and the call for this workshop, obviously comes from the fishing industry. As NSAC members, we have sought to shape the Terms of Reference to ensure a more neutral, science-based foundation for discussion. However, an agreed version has not yet been finalized. A key unresolved issue is the starting point of the discussion—the industry asserts that seals and cormorants are the problem, but the underlying concern, as they describe it, is the decline of juvenile cod and the overall poor status of several fish stocks, particularly in the Baltic, Skagerrak, and Kattegat.

For us, it is essential that the workshop’s outcome includes the possibility that no direct action will be taken against seals and cormorants, should the scientific basis not support it.

Mar
17

PECH Committee

Location: Brussels, Belgium/ hybrid

Dates: 17 - 18 March 2025

Monday 17 March

  •  15:00-18:30
Tuesday 18 March
  • 09:00-12:30 14:30-18:30

Mar
04

Ecosystem based fisheries management – HELCOM Fish Meeting

Location: Isle Vilm, Germany/ hybrid

Dates: 04 March 2025

On the 4th of March, a workshop on ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) of the HELCOM Working Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable Fisheries (WG FISH) is held. The objectives of the workshop are to develop and finalise a HELCOM common understanding of ecosystem-based fisheries management that can be used in future processes and to come to common understanding on high-level principles of EBFM. On the 5th and 6th of March, the HELCOM Working Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable Fisheries will hold it's Informal Consultation Session, where progress of the tasks of the workplan of the group is discussed and future work is planned.

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Feb
27

BSAC – Pelagic Working Group

Location: Online

Dates: 27 February 2025

Feb
25

BSAC – Demersal Working Group

Location: Online

Dates: 25 February 2025