Project will investigate why the cod is small and meagre
It is difficult for a weakened cod stock to recover if the right conditions are not in place. A combination of historical overfishing, oxygen depletion, liver parasites and seal predation makes the eastern cod stock particularly vulnerable. In the Åland Sea, however, cod seem to be doing well. Oxygen conditions are better and cod have […]
Baltic Sea Brief 59: Saving the herring will be painful
In August, the European Commission presented its proposal for next year’s fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea. After decades of heavy fishing pressure from the industry, scientific models proving wrong, and alarms about the decline of the herring population, the Commission is now proposing to stop all directed fishing for herring in the central Baltic […]
Action bays within the Thriving Bays project are selected!
Work on sampling, measures and case studies is now in full swing within the Thriving Bays demonstration project. Four bays have been selected for measures and another four bays are control bays. Intensive surveys and sampling are now underway in all bays. At the same time, specific case studies are being carried out in areas […]
