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New project on fisheries management best practices
Aims to influence upcoming European Common Fisheries Policy reform.
Centre partner Baltic Nest is, together with Baltic Sea 2020 and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, carrying out a project aiming to review best practices of fisheries management. - The current fisheries management has failed to deliver on its social, economic and environmental goals under the existing European Common Fisheries Policy A clear example of this is the Baltic Sea fisheries, which hinders initiatives on a national or regional level aiming to improve the current, unsustainable, situation, says project member and centre theme leader Henrik Österblom. An opportunity for management change The project gathers internationally recognized scientist from natural, economic and social sciences to investigate known examples of successful management, trying to find potential solutions to the ongoing fisheries crises. The project is carried out in dialogue with policy makers and stakeholders Based on the scientific review, in depth analysis of case studies will be undertaken in order to elaborate management and policy recommendations that could potentially be applied to Baltic Sea fisheries and the revision of the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). - The revision of the CFP present an opportunity to generate change in European fisheries management, hopefully enabling changes toward a more sustainable fishery in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere, says Österblom. Final report in March 2009 All conclusions and discussions will be put together into a final report which will be completed by March 31 2009. The report will consist of highly qualified background material and illuminated by concretely pointing to measures that should be considered by the Member States when elaborating the Green Book on reforming European Fisheries. See video from the presentation of the presented and discussed at a high level conference in Brussels during the first week of April 2009:
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