Past Events

The Fisheries Secretariat in partnership with WWF Sweden are hosting a Baltic Conference to Explore Opportunities for Low Impact Fisheries in the Baltic Sea.

The meeting is organised by Guido Milana (S&D, IT) and Client Earth. It will take place between 1530-1700 in Room A3H-1 in the European Parliament.

Baltic Sea RAC is hosting a seminar on ecosystem-based management. The seminar will take place from lunch-to-lunch 25-26 September at the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (MIR), Kallataja str. 1, in Gdynia, Poland. Note that it takes place the day before the Fisheries Secretariat and WWF Sweden conference on Low Impact Fisheries alternatives in the Baltic Sea region – this also takes place at MIR.  

Professor Sture Hansson from Stockholm Universitet will talk about the Baltic from a historical perspective on the evening of the 24th. It will take place at the Marine Center conference hall “Skeppet". On the 25th, Klas-Göran Karlsson from Lund University will discuss the Baltic as a uniting and dividing force. Both will take place from 19.00-20.00.

Links:

• Further information (Swedish)

Agenda forthcoming. Discussions concerning the reform of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) will take place.

The proposed discard ban and its implementation in the Baltic Sea will be the focus of the meeting along with the proposed long-term multi-species management plan. The meeting will be held at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen, Slotsholmsgade 12, 1216 Copenhagen K, meeting room B, between 11-17.

Links:

• Invitation
• BALTFISH technical working group discussion paper on discard ban implementation
• Joint NGO paper for technical working group on discards
• DG Mare paper on the proposed Baltic multispecies management plan

Agenda forthcoming. Following on from the PECH meeting on 6 September, amendments submitted for the Basic Regulation will now have been consolidated into a list of compromise amendments. These will be discussed at the meeting. Alain Cadec (EPP, FR) will present his draft report on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to the committee.

The roundtable discussion has been organised by the Mediterranean Platform of Artisanal Fishers (MedArtNet), and will take place on September 18 between 1130-1300 in the European Parliament (room ASP 5F385). It will be introduced by the chair of the Fisheries Committee (PECH) Gabriel Mato Androver (EPP, ES).

The Ulrike Rodust (S&D, DE) report on the Basic Regulation in the CFP reform for the Fisheries Committee (PECH) report has received 2,549 amendments. These will be condensed into compromise amendments and a final voting list will be compiled by the PECH Secretariat ahead of the final committee vote on 8-9 October.