Speakers
March 23, 2024
OPENING WORDS
Gun-Marie Östedt-Axelsson
BASRAN Chair 2023 - 2025 and country representative of Sweden since 2021, PDG and Chair of "Save the Baltic Sea" Committee in Rotary D2370, member of Stockholm-Skanstull Rotary Club.
Eva Nisser
Moderator, Chair of the BASRAN Action Committee The impact of industrial fishing on the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Nacka Rotary Club, Sweden, D2370
RI President Gordon McInally
2023-2024 Rotary International President, RC South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland
Isabella Lövin
Isabella Lövin is the former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (2016-2021), also former Minister of Climate and Environment, and former Member of the European Parliament. She is now co-chair of Friends of Ocean Action – a network of some 70 ocean champions with its secretariat at the World Economic Forum. Her book on international climate and ocean politics, The Oceanic Feeling On the Need for a New Narrative, was recently published in English (2024). Her book on overfishing, Silent Seas - the Fish Race to the Bottom, gained a lot of acclaim when it came out in 2007. Isabella Lövin is again running for the EU parliament in 2024.
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Joakim Hjelm
Senior scientist at SLU Aqua and former director of Institute of marine research in Lysekil, Sweden. Has long experience in working with ICES and stock assessments with a focus on Baltic fish stocks. Member of ICES advisory council (ACOM). His work also includes general fisheries management advice on both a national and international arena.
The presentation will include what fisheries scientists need to determine the size of different fish stocks and the system how ICES develops their annual advice. The presentation will also include examples of ICES advice. The second part will include what happens with the advice and how advice is developed into fishing quotas (TAC:s) on an EC level.
Laura Uusitalo
Research professor of sustainable fisheries at Natural Resources Institute Finland.
In this webinar I will tell about the special features of the Baltic Sea ecosystem, and what that means for sustainable fishing and ecosystem management.
Laura Uusitalo has MSc degrees in limnology and computer science, PhDs in fisheries science and computer science, and docent of aquatic sciences at the University of Helsinki. Her fields of expertise include the Baltic Sea ecology and uncertainty assessment and decision support methods.
Anna Dębicka
Program director, Marine Stewardship Council MSC, Baltic and Central Europe.
An oceanographer by University degree, a diver and sailor by passion. She has managed to combine her passion for the oceans with her work.
For more than 16 years, she has led projects related to the protection of marine and ocean resources. Organiser and participant of research and educational cruises. She is the originator of the WWF Blue Patrol, a network of 200 volunteers who patrol the Polish coast, collecting information on stranded seals and porpoises.
In 2013 she started working for the NGO MSC (Marine Stewardship Council), establishing cooperation with key partners in the Polish market, making the MSC Programme a widely recognised certification for fish products in Poland.
Since 2018, she has been leading the MSC team responsible for activities in Poland and Central Europe. In November 2023 she became Regional Director for Baltic and Central Europe in MSC where she leads work in Denmark, Finland, Poland, Sweden and also in the Central Europe Region.
Nils Höglund
Marine and Fisheries Policy Officer, Coalition Clean Baltic, Sweden, https://www.ccb.se/Foto: Camille Fraizy
Nils Höglund, from Sweden, is the Senior Marine and Fisheries Policy officer at the NGO network Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB). Nils is currently the Chair of the Baltic Sea Advisory Council working group on ecosystem based management. He has acted as CCB representative in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive related working groups such since 2010 on the EU level and acts as a representative for CCB in regional fora such as HELCOM, BALTFISH.
His educational background is in political sciences and environmental law and he has 20 plus years of experience in environmental advocacy work on issues and topics such as: EU marine and fisheries policies issues, climate change, environmental education, aquaculture.
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SHOWCASES
Konrad Stralka
Mr. Konrad Stralka is the co-founder of BalticWaters and has been Executive Director since 2020.
Prior to working for the foundation, he served as director of BalticSea2020 and in several managing positions in Statoil Hydro, Cell Network and Bergman & Beving.
A presentation of BalticWaters latest initiative – to establish a fish science laboratory that will work with species like the Baltic Cod and Baltic Herring. The presentation will explain why we commit to this initiative, what we plan to do, possible future research and our long term goals and partners.
Mathias Schilling
Mathias Schilling is an entrepreneur in Western Pomerania, Northern Germany, who is running a sustainable cattle business and a restaurant. On the nearby island Hiddensee, fishing has a long tradition since the Middle Ages. Today, the fishing quotas oft he European Union, the large fleets with their trawls as well as excessive regulation are a threat to the future of traditional fishery. When he initiated the association “Hiddenseer Kutterfisch“, the aim was to have more fish at better prices with a longer shelf life so that the profession of the fishermen has a future while beeing worthwhile. Using gillnetting as fishing method, the association tries to benefit from the whole supply chain up to selling the fish throughout the local tourism industry. The idea has since been a success and aroused a nationally interest.
https://www.hiddenseer-kutterfisch.de/
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Julius Morkūnas
Dr. Julius Morkūnas is working at Lithuanian ornithological society, Klaipėda University and Costal research and planning institute. From 2015 started active conservation projects on seabirds in Baltic Sea receiving first grants for NGO organizations. Projects were designed for data collection of bycatch of seabirds and field testing of bycatch mitigation measures. Over the past seven years, Julius with coauthors have prepared scientific publications based on their findings in sea bird ecology, bycatch, and bycatch mitigation. These efforts have been conducted in recommendations for authorities to reduce seabird bycatch.
In 2023 he defended PhD on topic “Quantification of Wintering Seabird Bycatch in the Baltic Sea Coastal Fisheries and Ingestion of Marine Debris”.
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Michaela Lindström
Michaela Lindström is the Managing Director and co-founder of Hailia Nordic Oy.
Hailia Nordic Oy is a Finnish foodtech -startup, focusing on upcycling underutilized seafood , i.e. small pelagics and by-products from fish processing industry, into tasty, nutritious, easy-to-use, and high value food products.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hailia/about/
Hailia has set to its mission to enable the blue food revolution, and this is what the presentation will be all about.