Alle Workshop Ergebnisse

Summary of previous workshop results

With more than 200 participants in all of our three previous workshops, we gained many valuable and interesting insights, lively and engaging discussions as well as fantastic opportunities to connect with each other. These contributions made our workshops a success. Here, you find the main results summarized:

  1. Blue Restoration: Opportunities for restoring marine and coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea, 19-20 September 2024
  2. Fisheries Management in Marine Protected Areas: Impact and regulation of bottom trawling, 29 November 2024
  3. Invasive species: Dealing with challenges and opportunities of non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea, 30-31 January 2025
Download: Project Baltic Coast Dialog_Summary of previous workshop results_02-24-25

Presentation: Bottom trawling and spatial planning in the Danish Baltic Sea

by Stefan Neuenfeldt, PhD., Senior Researcher at the National institute for Aquatic Resources from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua)

He heads the research area for fish population dynamics and stock assessments. His work focuses on species distributions and interactions and scaling small scale processes to population-level vital rates. He has coordinated several BONUS, and H2020 projects on integrating biological processes in eco-system based fisheries management and currently participates in the EU project Marine Plan ‘Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conservation in European Seas’. STN is member of the ICES Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group and co-chairs the ICES Working Group on Ecosystem-based fisheries management in the Western Baltic.

In his presentation, he evidenced data of bottom trawling in Denmark, as well as the true costs to nature and the ecosystem.

Download: 5. Dr. Neuenfeldt_DUH bottom trawling STN without videos

Presentation: Bottom trawling in HELCOM MPAs

by: Dr. Kemal Pinarbasi, HELCOM Secretariat

Kemal Pinarbasi is an expert in marine spatial planning and biodiversity conservation. Since joining HELCOM, he has contributed to pivotal projects, including the Third Holistic Assessment of the Baltic Sea and the MSP4BIO project, where he coordinates the Baltic Sea test site and leads efforts to enhance policy coherence. His work aligns closely with the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Convention on Biological Diversity Post-2020 Framework.

During his presentation, he outlined the current state of the Baltic Sea and the ecological and climate change pressures it is under. He also provided a rough estimate of the costs associated with bottom trawling in HELCOM Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) versus the valuation of ecosystem services.

Dowload: 6. Dr. Pinarbasi_Bottom trawling in HELCOM MPAs_Berlin

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)
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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.

Download: HELCOM Presentation by Ruediger Strempel

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.

Download: Kendzierska on Zostera 2024

More interesting key note speeches in the series of the Baltic Coast Dialog can be found here.

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