Workshop Blue Restoration
Salt Marshes in the Polish Coast area
Krzysztof Kaluzny, Manager of the OTOP West Pomaranian Reserves gave a speech about Salt Marshes in the Polish Coast area at the Baltic Coast Dialog Workshop on September 19, 2024.
Functioning ecosystems alongside the Baltic Coast are crucial for blue restoration. Threats to Salt Marshes are:
- overgrowth of invasive species, such as common reed (Phragmites australis)
- land reclamation
- drainage
- agricultural runoff
- rarer and smaller periodic flooding by seawater (climate changes)
HELCOM’s role in restoring marine and coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea area
Rüdiger Strempel, executive secretary of HELCOM, gave an insight on HELCOM’s role in restoring marine and coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea area at the Baltic Coast Dialog Workshop on September 19, 2024.
In upcoming workshops on blue restoration from the Baltic Coast Dialog you will be able to participate and find solutions on how to engage local stakeholders of the Baltic Sea area and also get into dialogue with them. The next one on the topic of Fisheries Regulations in marine protected areas will already be taking place in Berlin at the end of November.
In the following you will find Rüdiger Strempel’s presentation.
You want to get more information about blue restoration measures? Presentations from the Baltic Coast Dialog workshops can be found here.
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Recovery story of Zostera meadows in Puck Bay – one of the most valuable habitats of the Southern Baltic Sea
Halina Kendzierska, Ph.D. from the Department of Marine Ecology University of Gdańsk gave some insights on Zostera meadows and its recovery story at the Baltic Coast Dialog Workshop on September 19, 2024. Zostera plays a crucial role for blue restoration.
A few of the very much needed benefits of Zostera are nutrients and carbon storage, matter circulation, breed and nursery area, food availability, bioturbation and bioirigation and sediment stabilisation. This means, seagrass plays a crucial role in cleaning water by trapping sediments and absorbing nutrients, which causes cleaner water. It is also providing food and habitat for a variety of beneficial species in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Seagrass is a requirement for thriving fish polulations.
Biodiversity is always much higher in Zostera meadows than on the sand next to it.
H. Kendzierska, PhD
As one of the participants of the Blue Restoration Workshop put it: “We can not do the large scale restoration. We need to give it into peoples hand who can.” This is your time to get involved.
In the following you will find Halina Kendzierska’s presentation.
More interesting key note speeches in the series of the Baltic Coast Dialog can be found here.
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