A Special Year for a Special Fish: The lnternational Year of the Salmon has started! "The International Year of the Salmon (IYS) is a project launched by NASCO, the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization NPAFC, North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission and other partners. The IYS focal year will be 2019, with projects and activities starting [...]
More garbage caught than cod: NGOs call for emergency measures to protect Eastern Baltic cod NGOs in the Baltic Sea Region have sent an urgent letter to the European Commissioner in charge of Environment Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, urging him to implement emergency measures in accordance with article 12 of the EU Common Fisheries Policy [...]
Crisis situation for the Eastern Baltic cod stock – emergency measures needed now. "Dear Commissioner Vella We are writing to urge you in the strongest terms to take immediate emergency measures under CFP basic regulation article 12 to prevent further catastrophic damage to the Eastern Baltic cod stock. " Read more here: http://catch-southbaltic.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Letter-about-crisis-for-the-Baltic-cod-stock-emergency-measures-needed.pdf
The CATCH Consortium and the Organizing Committee are pleased to announce that registration and call for abstracts for the final conference of the Interreg project CATCH Coastal Angling Tourism – a development chance for the South Baltic Region, is now open!More information about the conference can be found here: www.catch-southbaltic.eu/april-conference-english. To register for the conference, fill out the form below and [...]
"The proposal is part of the European Union's approach to adjust the levels of fishing to long-term sustainability targets, or maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by 2020 as agreed by the Council and the European Parliament in the Common Fisheries Policy. The Commission's proposal is also in line with the policy intentions expressed in the Commission's Communication on Fishing [...]
" The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is an ambitious and innovative piece of legislation that must not be weakened. This was the main message conveyed at a conference held in the European Parliament on Tuesday where anglers, scientists, policy-makers, NGOs and industry representatives discussed the status of the Directive and exchanged views on what is [...]
"The next conference of the Forum on Recreational Fisheries and Aquatic Environment entitled ‘The Water Framework Directive Fitness Check and the protection of EU waters’ will take place on the 29th of January in the European Parliament in Brussels. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the most comprehensive instrument of EU water policy and is [...]
On 11-13 January there was a national fishing competition XII Troć Iny 2019 for the cup of the mayor of Goleniów, co-organized by the Green Federation "GAJA". 99 anglers from all over the country participated in this year's fishing competition. During the fishing competition there were CATCH trainings on anglers tourism in the southern Baltic [...]
"In May 2019, representatives of 130 Governments will be presented, for discussion and possible approval , with a definitive new global synthesis of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people – the first such report since the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published in 2005 , and the first ever that is [...]
The Interreg Project CATCH – Coastal Angling Tourism - a development chance for the South Baltic Region – invites you to its final conference on the 5 - 6 April 2019 in Dźwirzyno, Poland. The city is located directly at the Baltic Sea not far away from Szczecin and Kołobrzeg. Angling experts and partners from Denmark, Poland, Lithuania and Germany [...]