Past Events

Following the request of the Baltic Sea Advisory Council (BSAC) BALTFISH Presidency is organizing a joint meeting to discuss the landing obligation practicalities. Please see pdf below for more information and agenda.

Launching transnational cooperation for 2014-2020 is on the agenda this autumn.

The organizers invite to look at the achievements and explore the future funding opportunities during the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme Conference. On the first day there will look back at successful examples of cooperation and discussions on expectations towards the future. The thematic fields and features of the new Programme also will be presented. During the second day there will be more detailed talks about the themes for cooperation and explanation on how and when to apply as well as where to get help.

For more information about the conference, how to register and draft agenda, please see links below.

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• Information and registration
• Draft agenda

ICES will host a workshop to consider the basis for Fmsy ranges for all stocks. The meeting will take place at DTU Aqua, Copenhagen, Denmark. See link below for more information.

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• ICES meeting

Sketching maritime planning and fisheries management in the Baltic Sea Region. More info forthcoming.

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• Save the date

For more information, agenda and background documents please see link below. 

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• ICCAT meeting information

Some of the issues on the agenda which are of interest for the Baltic Sea region include: Exchange of views with the Commission on the Public Consultation on Technical Measures and presentation by the Commission of delegated and implementing acts with the discard ban being of particular interest.

Please see below for draft agenda.

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• Draft agenda

The Inter-AC meeting will discuss among others the Advisory Councils their functioning and the implementation of the new CFP, and in particular the new technical measures framework and the discard plans.

Please see below for draft agenda.

 

The meeting will take place at Park Inn Hotel, Engvej 171, 2300 Copenhagen S. Please see below for agenda and more information.

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• Darft agenda
• Information and background documents

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.

Finland relies on imports for over two 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 Second HELCOM Workshop on Regional Action Plan for Marine Litter (MARINE LITTER 2/2014) will be held on 22-23 October 2014 in Stralsund, Germany, at the premises of the Ozeanuem/Meeresmuseum

Due to the space limitation, the Contracting Parties are kindly requested to invite up to four people, from national administrations, NGOs with expertise on marine litter, as well as stakeholders from e.g. the waste management and wastewater treatment sectors, the shipping and fishing industries and the fields of product design and education.