SWB First planners meeting 1

Fish/Fisheries/Aquaculture

2015-05-06

SWB First planners meeting 2

Fisheries in South West Baltic

• traditional activity• small and large scale• cod, herring, sprat, turbot, plaice, salmon, eel • active and static gear• recreational fisheries (cod etc)

2015-05-06

SWB First planners meeting 3

Fisheries in cross-border areas

Some examples:• Southern Middle bank (PL, SE, DK, EE)• Kriegers flak (DK, SE, DE?)• Öresund (DK, SE)

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SWB First planners meeting 4

Fish habitats in cross-border areas

Some examples of spawning areas:• Öresund – cod (SE, DK), • Bornholm basin – cod (SE, DK, PL), • Gotland basin –cod historic (SE, EE, LT,LV)

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SWB First planners meeting 5

Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) regulates fisheries

Some examples of relevant CFP-features:• Special rules for fishing in neighbouring countries

territorial waters (e.g. SE-DK in Öresund and in the Baltic Sea, DK-DE in the Baltic Sea)

• Multispecies management plan for cod and herring• Cod closure areas (seasonal): Bornholm (cross border),

Eastern Gotland (cross border) and Gdansk basins

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SWB First planners meeting 6

Fisheries and other activitiesPotential conflicts:• Mining and dumping (fh, fl)• Energy installations including cables (fh, fl)• Marine conservation (fl)• Traffic/Safety (static gear/traffic pattern) (fl, fh?)• Between different types of fisheries (fh, fl)• Cultural heritage (fl)fh – fish habitats, fl- fishing locations

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SWB First planners meeting 7

Planning evidence• A lot of CFP-data around , but lack of readily

available cross-border planning evidence• Lack of data on small-scale fisheries and

fish habitat

some work to be done….

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SWB First planners meeting 8

Danish fishery and wind energy (project Displace)

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SWB First planners meeting 9

Cod spawning and nursery areas- historic development(Helcom)

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SWB First planners meeting 10

Swedish pelagic fishery by trawl

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Swedish nationalinterest areas for fisheries

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Fisheries restriction zones

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SWB First planners meeting 13

Fish/Fisheries in Baltic SCOPE

• YES, but some challenges!• Thematic group- fisheries administration/

links to fisheries administration• Stakeholders – possibly?

2015-05-06

SWB First planners meeting 14

Aquaculture• very limited marine aquaculture in the southern

part of the Baltic sea • located in coastal areas• in future– aquaculture and windfarms? – Algea (Submariner project)?

• Aquafima project (2011-2014)– Actual and potential aquaculture locations in the Baltic Sea Region

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