BALTIC SEA RESEARCH OF SOCIETAL RELEVANCE IN FOUR AREAS

Current topics

Baltic Breakfast: Impacts of climate change on the Baltic Sea – the known and the uncertain
  • Fisheries

Commission fails to follow science's advice on eel fisheries
  • Fisheries

Increased trawl fishing on flatfish risks further damaging Baltic cod stocks - despite new selective gear

Baltic Eye Comments

EU Soil Strategy treads carefully
  • Pollutants

Baltic Breakfast: Essential use and substitution of harmful chemicals
  • Fisheries

Baltic Sea Centre researchers on next year's fishing quotas: "Increased industrial herring fishing in the Gulf of Bothnia runs counter to the alarm of coastal fishermen”
  • Pollutants

New study: Climate change with more precipitation and rainfall can impair the Baltic Sea's ability to bind contaminants such as PCBs and PAHs
  • Eutrophication

New film explains why the situation in the Baltic Sea doesn't seem to improve

Analysis

  • Eutrophication

The EU Farm to Fork strategy – what is happening?

Analysis

  • Fisheries

A Cod Crisis Caused by Management – When Will They Ever Learn?
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Baltic Breakfast: Blue carbon and methane emissions – how coasts and climate are connected

Baltic Eye Comments

Apply a buffer for uncertainty in fisheries

Baltic Eye Comments

Too vague recommendations from Baltic Sea parliamentarians

Policy brief

  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Healthy coastal ecosystems are crucial to mitigate climate change

Policy brief

  • Fisheries

Adapt herring fisheries to scientific uncertainty

Analysis

  • Fisheries

Where have all the herring gone?
  • Fisheries

Baltic Breakfast: Seafood consumption and sustainability

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Measures improve the Baltic Sea environment – even in a changing climate
  • Fisheries

Researcher: "ICES recommendation on increased herring fishing in the Gulf of Bothnia is a major risk-taking"

Baltic Eye Comments

Important that Commission’s Sustainable Products Initiative include transparency on chemicals in consumer products

Baltic Eye Comments

A limited revision of REACH is needed to increase transparency and improve chemical safety

Policy brief

  • Fisheries
  • Habitats

POLICY BRIEF: Bottom trawling threatens European marine ecosystems

Baltic Eye Comments

Comments on the EU Commission Zero Pollution Action Plan

Baltic Eye Comments

Stronger Marine Strategy Framework Directive is necessary
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

New study: Greater consideration for contaminants is needed in marine monitoring programs

Baltic Eye Comments

Biodiversity Strategy has largely failed to protect marine species and habitats in the EU
  • Fisheries
  • Habitats

Does protecting the seas save the climate?
  • Eutrophication

Multi-modeling to evaluate MSFD measures at European scale
  • Pollutants

Baltic Breakfast: Micropollutants in wastewater – a problem of unknown magnitude

Policy brief

  • Pollutants

POLICY BRIEF: Call for better management of micropollutants in wastewater

Baltic Eye Comments

A future EU soil strategy must cover risk of nutrient leakage

Policy brief

  • Fisheries

POLICY BRIEF: Reduce coastal trawling to protect the Baltic herring
  • Eutrophication
  • Habitats

How will the Baltic Sea ecosystem services change in the future?
  • Pollutants

Baltic Breakfast: Concept developed at Stockholm University incorporated in new EU strategy

Baltic Eye Comments

A Blue Year for the Baltic

Baltic Eye Comments

Monitoring needs to be addressed in new Zero Pollution Action Plan

Baltic Eye Comments

The Environmental Action Programme to 2030 – "Ambitious objectives but lack substantial tools"
  • Fisheries

EU ministers treat the eel issue – will fishing continue next year?
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication

The great plankton change – good or bad for the Baltic Sea ecosystem?

Policy brief

  • Fisheries

Fishing ban and more knowledge required to save the European eel

Baltic Eye Comments

F2F is already being watered down
  • Fisheries

”For the past five years, fishing has been too high” – Baltic Sea Centre scientist comment on next year’s TACs for Baltic Sea fisheries
  • Pollutants

Researchers at Stockholm University comment on the new EU Chemicals Strategy

Baltic Eye Comments

EU Council and Parliament water down the CAP
  • Fisheries

Researchers warn that the EU is reintroducing harmful fisheries subsidies
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

The New BSAP – Contributions from Science

Analysis

  • Fisheries

ANALYSIS: Baltic Sea fishing has not gone according to (multiannual) plan
  • Fisheries

Experts comment proposed cuts for Baltic fishing: “Things are getting worse for the important stocks of herring and cod”

Baltic Eye Comments

Baltic MAP evaluation lacks recommendations for improvement

Baltic Eye Comments

"A new sewage sludge directive should focus more on the marine environment"

Baltic Eye Comments

"A revised Wastewater Directive needs to address the chemical flow in modern society"
  • Pollutants

New review of sources and pathways for hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea

Policy brief

  • Pollutants

Time for smarter and safer chemical management

Baltic Eye Comments

Farm to Fork strategy has welcome tools for closing the nutrient loops

Baltic Eye Comments

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

Policy brief

Emerging ocean acidification threatens Baltic Sea ecosystems
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

"The Commission takes a more all-encompassing approach to chemicals" – Policy officer Hanna Sjölund explains the new Circular Economy Action Plan

Baltic Eye Comments

Consultation reply: Roadmap for the Farm to Fork Strategy
  • Fisheries
  • Habitats

Researchers: Bottom trawling threatens seafloor integrity
  • Eutrophication

what would the Baltic Sea look like without any nutrient reductions?
  • Fisheries
  • Habitats

Researchers: Marine protected areas and sustainable use of the oceans are not mutually exclusive - at least not in Europe
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Climate change will increase the pressure on the Baltic Sea

What can the Baltic Sea expect from the new Commission?

Analysis

  • Fisheries

Analysis: The cod crisis requires more measures than trawling ban and scrapping of vessels

Policy brief

  • Fisheries

Fact sheet: Understanding MSY

Baltic Eye Comments

"The EU decision is a step forward"

Policy brief

  • Fisheries

For cod’s sake – cut back fishing on herring and sprat

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Phosphorus in the catchment – Actions taken today create tomorrows legacy
  • Eutrophication

Q/A: Researcher Michelle McCracking explains how 17 million tons of old phosphorus on land affects today's measures against eutrophication
  • Pollutants

Researchers require increased transparency within REACH
  • Pollutants

Scientist: The EU ban on single-use plastics is an important first step towards a better marine environment
  • Pollutants

ECHA will improve compliance checks for new chemicals

Michelle McCrackin

BLOG: From finance to phosphorus. Michelle McCrackin tells a personal story about how she went from being an accountant to becoming a scientist.
  • Eutrophication

On the EAT Lancet report: "Choosing less ham from Parma will not affect the Baltic Sea"
  • Pollutants

ECHA proposes new ban on microplastics
  • Eutrophication

This is what Europe's agriculture looks like in 2030
  • Pollutants

New single-use plastics directive - an important step towards reducing marine litter in the Baltic Sea

Guest column

  • Eutrophication

Alan Matthews: National CAP strategies important for the marine environment
  • Habitats

Nine areas designated for protecting biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

Guest column

  • Fisheries

Commissioner Karmenu Vella: We cannot turn our backs on the oceans
  • Pollutants

Parliament approve single-use plastics proposal – an important step forward for the Baltic Sea

Policy brief

  • Pollutants

Policy Brief: Why we need a list of ingredients on consumer articles

Guest column

  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Olle Torpman: The Baltic Sea problem – an ethical problem
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Baltic Eye’s work is analysed in a new international study

Analysis

  • Fisheries

Fish stocks and profitability are favored by quotas below the maximum level of sustainable outtake
  • Eutrophication

Seven-year project shows that eutrophic coastal areas can be saved

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Policy Brief: farm structure and nutrient leakage to the Baltic Sea

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Fact Sheet: Can changing our diets help the Baltic Sea?
  • Fisheries

NEW STUDY: Historically few large cod in the Baltic Sea

Analysis

  • Eutrophication

Eutrophication demoted in the proposal for the EU's agricultural policy

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Mussel farming in the Baltic Sea

Policy brief

  • Habitats

Policy brief: Raising quality of marine protection

Guest column

  • Eutrophication

Competitive and eco-friendly agriculture is absolutely essential for the Baltic Sea

Guest column

  • Fisheries

Small-sized cod weaken economy for fisheries

Guest column

  • Fisheries

We can save the Baltic Sea - a guest column by Linnéa Engström (MP)
  • Eutrophication

What is internal load?
  • Pollutants

Researchers: correct application of new criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals is essential
  • Pollutants

The Plastics Strategy - a good tool for reducing marine litter

Guest column

  • Pollutants

MEP Jytte Guteland: “My goal is to push for better legislation in all areas where EDCs affect humans and the environment”

Guest column

  • Pollutants

MEP Christofer Fjellner: "The plastic is not the problem"

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

POLICY BRIEF: Improving manure recycling in agriculture
  • Eutrophication

Better manure management
  • Pollutants

Major shortcomings in the EU regulation for chemicals in goods