Fisheries in South West Baltic * The information presented is the working exercise of the cross-border maritime spatial planning discussions and can not be treated as the official opinion of the European Commission and the Member States involved in the consortium of the Baltic SCOPE project.

1. Fish/Fisheries/Aquaculture
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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)
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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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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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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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6. Fisheries and other activities
Potential 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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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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8. Danish fishery and wind energy (project Displace)
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9. Cod spawning and nursery areas
- historic development
(Helcom)
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10. Swedish pelagic fishery by trawl
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11. Swedish national
interest areas
for fisheries
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12. Fisheries restriction zones
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13. Fish/Fisheries in Baltic SCOPE
• YES, but some challenges!
• Thematic group- fisheries administration/
links to fisheries administration
• Stakeholders – possibly?
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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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