Past Events

BESTAQ (Baltic Environmentally Sustainable Aquaculture) was initiated as a flagship project under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.

Organized by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, the hearing on the Baltic Sea strategy takes its starting point after two years of organized effort to establish cooperation of the EU's Baltic Sea countries through the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region. The strategy was adopted as one of the Swedish EU Presidency main issues in 2009. For more information please check the attached programme, which is only available in the Swedish languge.

A meeting organized by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee (STECF) Expert Working Groups (EWG) 15-11. The focus will be on impact assessments for Baltic Multi-species plan and cod plans in the Kattegat, North Sea, West of Scotland and Irish Sea. The meeting will be held on Nov 28, 2011  to Dec 2, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. See the link below for more details.

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• Meeting Agenda

The Royal Academy for Forestry and Agriculture in Sweden will host an event discussing the CFP reform, with a particular focus on minimising bycatch and the Commission proposals for a discard ban. Speakers include Commissioner Damanaki, the Swedish agriculture Minister Eskil Erlandsson, and the chairs of the BS RAC and the NS RAC. The meeting will take place from 1230-1715 and will be conducted in Swedish, Norwegian and English, with no translation.

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• KSLA link (Swedish)
• Invitation (Swedish)

For more information download the agenda below.

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• PECH Information

The GAP (Conecting Science, Society and Policy) 'Kick off' meeting for the Herring Case Study will present a series of sessions and discussions with focus on Western Baltic herring. There will also be group discussion which will  take up two selected topics, namely, MSY as a concept and Management objectives for particular herring stocks. The aims of the meeting are to produce a set of Minutes and an outline for the continued work within the Case Study, including tentative plans for an upcoming Seminar in 2012. Please see the attched document for agenda and travel directions.