News
June 20, 2013
FISH and Race for the Baltic are inspired by Kalmar Municipality
FISH and Race for the Baltic meets inspiring citizens of Kalmar municipality- where local citizens are involved in increasing the sustainability of surrounding wetlands, as well as educating the community in different environmental processes and promoting cycling for a healthier Baltic Sea.
June 19, 2013
Rachel Carson Prize awarded to head of Marine Conservation Society
On 2 June, Samantha Fanshawe, head of the Marine Conservation Society in Great Britain, received the Rachel Carson Prize for her outstanding leadership of the organisation and long-term commitment to protect the marine environment.
June 15, 2013
FISH and Race for the Baltic takes part in Sillarodden
FISH, one of the three core NGO´s behind the campaign Race for the Baltic, visited Ronneby and its Harbour festival where the cycling team participated in the yearly Sillarodden.
June 10, 2013
FISH and Race for the Baltic partners up with Marint centrum
FISH and Race for the Baltic teamed up with Marint Centrum when visiting Simrishamn on the third day of the race. Marint Centrum is a platform for tradition and innovation with the Baltic Sea as a focal point. The premise of the business is the belief that the ocean is an asset that can be used to create innovation, growth, while contributing to a sustainable marine environment for the future.
June 9, 2013
Race for the Baltic team visits Tullstorp Stream pilot project
This morning, the team from Race for the Baltic met with local landowner Karl-Otto Alwén at the Tullstorp Stream outside Trelleborg in Skåne, Sweden. It is the first of a number of local initiatives contributing to a better Baltic Sea environment that the campaign wants to highlight along the way.
June 8, 2013
Cyclists do their first leg on trip around the Baltic Sea
The multi-stakeholder campaign Race for the Baltic (RFTB) was launched today on World Ocean Day in Malmö, Sweden, by FISH, Coalition Clean Baltic and Oceana. A 3-month bike ride around the Baltic Sea will end in Copenhagen with a call for action aimed at the Baltic Environment Ministers.
June 7, 2013
Race for the Baltic campaign launches
Tomorrow, the launch of the Race for the Baltic campaign, initiated by FISH, Coalition Clean Baltic and Oceana, will take place in Malmö, Sweden to coincide with World Oceans Day.
June 7, 2013
Small-scale fishermen plan to establish a pan-European organisation
Coastal fishers from Germany, Sweden and Denmark recently travelled to Poland to support their colleagues who believe that their cod catches are adversely affected by illegal and unregulated trawling for sandeel in the exclusion zone, and discussed the need to establish of a common European coastal fishing organisation.
June 7, 2013
David Miliband and the Global Ocean Commission seek to push marine issues up the political ladder
In his new role as head of the Global Ocean Commission (GOC), former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband espoused the need “to sound the alarm about the state of the oceans” and to bridge the gap between expertise in ocean management and politics in a speech delivered to the US-European Sustainable Oceans Summit last week in Portugal.
June 3, 2013
Commission intentions for 2014 TACs made clear
On 30 May, the Commission published its annual communication on fishing opportunities. Its initial section on status of stocks gives quite a mixed picture, but shows some improvements in the number of stocks covered by scientific assessments and the number of stocks managed at or below FMSY.