Past Events

This is the fifth Baltic Sea seminar organised by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Main focus areas of the seminar this year is on the Programmes of Measures (PoM) of the Marines Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) both at a national and international level, as well as the effect that marine micro-litter and pharmaceuticals have on the Baltic Sea. The seminar is a meeting place for businesses, organizations, municipalities and other agencies that work for sustainable growth in the Baltic region and implementing or are interested in implementing projects and new ventures. The seminar will be in Swedish.

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Fisheries management has been on the agenda for decades, but as conditions are altered the important aspects change. For Baltic Sea salmon the drastic decrease in off shore commercial fisheries has allowed for increased catches in coastal fisheries and a fast development of salmon trolling, both by individual anglers and recreational companies. Increased spawning runs in naturally reproducing salmon may allow for intensified angling in rivers, while in regulated rivers large quantities of salmon have been found to accumulate downstream hydropower dams. How should we manage salmon under these novel conditions?

The seminar is hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.

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The European Commission is organising a conference on Blue Growth in the Baltic Sea, in partnership with the Maritime Development Center of Europe, the Danish Maritime Authority and the Baltic Development Forum, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 6 October 2015.

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The 14^th meeting of the Working Group on Good Environmental Status (WG GES) will take place at Conference Centre Albert Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels (Room 5/B).

The workshop will take place back to back with the 22^nd Advisory Committee Meeting and hosted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The terms of reference outline the categories of participants to invite:

• Anyone currently involved in using REM, in particular those working on cetacean and fisheries monitoring
• Companies working with video surveillance
• Representatives of countries that are interested in starting REM monitoring for cetacean bycatch
• Managers in relevant Parties which already implement REM monitoring

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Please see below for agenda. 

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Issues to be discussed are: Panel I - putting in place the landing obligation and technical measures through delegated acts in the Baltic Sea and in other waters. Panel II - Multispecies Management Plans, the next step: Lessons learned for the development of the Multispecies Management Plans.

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JRC are hosting a phase 2 workshop on Descriptor 2 to provide some specific recommendations on the outstanding issues identified during cover outstanding issues identified during phase 1 of the review process.

Registration and logistics: The workshops will be held at JRC - Ispra, Italy - registration is mandatory.

To have access to the JRC’s event module you have to use your ECAS credentials (or signing-in, if you don’t have an ECAS password) and then you will automatically redirect to the events page. Look for the “MSFD NON INDIGENOUS SPECIES WORKSHOPS (D2)” workshop page to complete you registration. Deadline for submission of applications for the workshop: 7 August 2015.

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For information about the course please see link below. Please note that the summer course is offered to CCB network members only.

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