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Increasing knowledge of illegal fishing - Final report
Author: Federacja Zielonych GAJA
Year published: 2011
Original title: “Enhancing of fisheries control system in Poland and extending of public knowledge about sustainable fisheries" Number of pages: 15 The Polish environmental organization Green Federation ...
New scientific articles on integrated bufferzones
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2019
In 2013-2015, the foundation funded the project Integrated bufferzones. The project was led by Rural Economy and Agricultural Society of Halland and aimed to reduce nutrient runoff from fields into the ...
Restoration efforts with perch in focus - final report
Author: The Swedish Anglers Association
Year published: 2017
The Swedish Anglers Association finished during 2017 the project "Restoration efforts with perch in focus". The project has gathered knowledge and developed restoration measures for perch and has explored ...
Wetland restoration for viable predatory fish stocks - final report
Author: The Swedish Sports fishermen’s organisation
Year published: 2013
The Swedish Sports fishermen’s organisation finished during 2012 the project Wetland restoration for viable predatory fish stocks. The projet has identified wetlands that can be restored to function as ...
“Best practices” for fisheries management
Author: Baltic Sea 2020
Year published: 2009
Baltic Sea 2020 and the Stockholm Resilience Centre has analyzed how fishing has been managed in different parts of the world to investigate whether there are any methods that can be implemented in the ...
2017 fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea have been decided – those for cod are reduced
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
On Monday 10 October, the EU agriculture and fisheries ministers handed down their decision concerning 2017 fishing quotas for the Baltic Sea. In respect of cod, the quotas have been decreased, but they ...
A salt water inflow to the Baltic Sea
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2015
Just before Christmas oxygen-rich salt water flow into the Baltic Sea. The inflow lasted from December 13 to 26 and turned out to be the third largest salt water inflow since 1951. In total approximately ...
A summary of the project Living coast
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2018
In 2011 BalticSea2020 started the large-scale demonstration project Living coast. The project is carried out in Björnöfjärden, a bay in Stockholm’s archipelago. At the start of the project, the bay was ...
Achieving an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the Baltic Sea: relevance of Member States' delegates powers under the CFP and their nature conservation duties
Author: Daniel Owen
Year published: 2007
The report examines EU Member States to achieve an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the Baltic Sea. Number of pages: 139 Click here to download the report.
Agriculture sampling at Säby farm has begun
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
This week begins the construction of a sampling station at Säby farm at Ingarö, in Stockholm County. The samples, so-called flow control sampling, are being carried out to evaluate the amount ...
Article: Jacob Hagberg on the significance of fisheries policy for fishing and the marine environment in the Baltic Sea
Author: Ida Mårtensson, BalticSea2020
Year published: 2012
In early September Jacob Hagberg, project leader BalticSea2020, was interviewed on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). In the presence of the European Parliament voting on the CFP in late ...
Article: Minna Epps on MSC’s importance for sustainable, well-managed fisheries
Author: Ida Mårtensson, BalticSea2020
Year published: 2012
The second article in BalticSea2020’s series about the foundation's internal and external projects has now been published on the website. The first article was about Jacob Hagberg, who discussed the significance ...
Article: Phosphorus bound in bottom sediment
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
When the project “For a Living Coast” started in 2010, the Björnö bay was one of the most eutrophic bays in Stockholm's archipelago. Most nutrients came from the bottom sediments ...
Article: Structure liming as a measure to increase crop yields and decrease phosphorus losses
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
Within the project "Living coast" several measures have been implemented around the heavily eutrophic bay Björnöfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago. One of the land based measures carried ...
Article: Study investigates what the Living Coasts project means to the community
Author: Ida Mårtensson, BalticSea2020
Year published: 2012
BalticSea2020’s major coastal zone project, Living coast, will provide information about how Baltic bays can be restored and regain good ecological status. The measures to be carried out as part of the ...
Article: Why predatory fish stocks are so important for the Baltic Sea
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
Predatory fish has an important role in a eutrophicated sea like the Baltic Sea. In this article you will get an overview of the significance of perch, pike and cod in the Baltic Sea food web. Read ...
Assessing diet of the non-indigenous predatory cladoceran Cercopagis pengoi using stable isotopes
Author: Per B. Holliland, Towe Holmborn and Elena Gorokhova, Department of systems ecology, Stockholm university
Year published: 2012
Scientific publication: The non-indigenous Cercopagis pengoi, a zooplankton that feed on smaller zooplankton feeds on the same zooplankton as herring and sprat. This study analyze to what degree these ...
Audit on combating eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2016
European Court of Auditors (ECA) has reviewed the Baltic countries' progress in reducing their nutrient input to the Baltic Sea. The results show varying degrees of success amongst the member states. Inefficient ...
Baltic Eye about microplastics in the Baltic Sea
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2015
According to a new Policy Brief by Baltic Eye, up to 40 tons of microplastics are released annually into the Baltic Sea catchment through the use of products like body wash, shower gels, and scrubs.  ...
Baltic Eye: Advanced wastewater treatment
Author: BalticSea2020
Year published: 2017
Baltic Eye has developed a new policy brief on advance wastewater treatment.With new techniques there is potential to significantly reduce emissions of both known and unknown substances to the aquatic ...

Our focus areas

fisheryThe stock of predatory fish is crucial for the state of the Baltic Sea. Therefore, we are working to ensure that the environmental effects of fishing should be a central part of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy. We are also working on projects to increase the proportion of predatory fish, such as pike and perch. Read more

eutroEutrophication is caused by emissions of nutrients that come from e.g. agriculture, water treatment plants, sewage and transportation. To find measures that could reduce emissions we work on projects in agriculture, industrial animal farms and the coastal zone, to research on measures to catch or bind nutrients. Read more

seagull-informationTo create awareness about the threats and opportunities the Baltic Sea is facing, we have initiated a 10-year media and film projects with journalist Folke Rydén and photographer Mattias Klum. Since 2013 we also support Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre (Baltic Eye). Read more