Transcript Swedish Board of Fisheries

Swedish Board of Fisheries
Under the government the Board is responsible for the
conservation of fisheries resources and the management of
fisheries.
Within the framework of its sectoral responsibility for the
environment, the Board promotes ecologically sustainable
management of fish stocks.
Swedish Board
of Fisheries
13 locations throughout Sweden,
head office in Göteborg
Human resources: 384
Turnover:
SEK 315 million
Founded in 1948
New national authority July 1th, 2011
- fresh- and marine water issues
such as fisheries, environmental
monitoring, marine spatial planning
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Research and
Development Dept.
Provides scientific advice for management of aquatic resources based
on an ecosystem approach
We identifies needs of new knowledge, develops methods and
provides scientific advice on:
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The status and processes of fish stocks and communities as
well as ecosystems
●
Effects of human activities and the environment on fish and
ecosystems
We use the best available knowledge as the basis for scientific advice
for management at the national and international levels
Research and Development Dept.
Our work that focus on data collection, analysis
of stocks and ecosystems, is organized in six
advisory programs:
● The Skagerrak/Kattegatt
● The Baltic sea
● The Great lakes
● Diadromous species
● Non-harmful fishing methods
● Aquaculture, stocking and habitat
restoration
Resources Management Dept.
● Management of fish stocks
● Regulating Swedish fisheries within the framework of the EU
Common Fisheries Policy
● Regulating coastal and inland fisheries
● Regulating the fishing fleet and issuing fishing licenses to
professional fishermen
● Financial support to the fishing industry, the fish processing
industry and aquaculture
● Fisheries management and environmental protection in
developing countries
● Socio-economic research studies
● Supporting recreational fisheries
● Developing a consumer perspective
● Protecting fisheries in environmental decisions
● Enhance and develop fisheries protection
Fisheries Control Dept.
The Swedish Board of Fisheries is the authority overall responsible for
fisheries control in close cooperation with the Swedish Coast Guard,
including a joint fisheries competence centre as a Single Access Point
for the fisheries industry, this includes:
● Following up of fishing opportunities allocated to Sweden
(quotas and effort)
● Monitoring of fishing and the fish trade
● Inspections of landings and transports
● Quality controls
● Providing access to fishing information, including official fishing
statistics
The Swedish Natural Resources
● long coastline, around 2 700 km
● important archipelago areas in the Baltic Sea and on the west
coast
● significant differences in climate and salinity
● the largest lakes in Europe (Vänern, Vättern)
● a total of more than 100 000 lakes
The Swedish fishing fleet
Fishermen with a professional fishing license: 1 742
marine and coastal waters
inland water
1 549
193
Licensed fishing vessels:
1 437
vessel < 12 metres
1 167
vessel >12 metres
270
Three main segments
● Pelagic trawlers:
the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat, the
Baltic Sea.
target species: herring, sprat, mackerel
● Demersal trawlers:
the Skagerrak and the Kattegat, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea
target species: cod, shrimp, nephrops, saithe, haddock
● Vessels with passive gear:
the Skagerrak and the Kattegat, the Baltic Sea
target species: cod, salmon, nephrops, turbot, eel, lobster, herring
Aquaculture
● Total fish and shellfish for consumption and release 10 000 ton
for a value of 31 million Euro (2008)
● Major species are rainbow trout, arctic char, mussels, eel
● Appr. 200 aquaculture enterprises, half of the production is
produced by less than 10 enterprises
Recreational fishing
● 1 million persons are recreational fishing
● 14 million fishing days 2006
● A total catch of 18 000 tons, 50% from inlands waters
● Main species: perch, pike, trout, macherel
● A total expenditure of 3 000 million SEK
Important resource issues
● A sustainable use of fishery resources
● To follow scientific recommendations through ICES
● To implement the ecosystem approach
● Threatened species (e.g. eel)
● Marine protected area
● Non-fishing areas
Important industry issues
● A sustainable use of fishery resources
● Over-capacity in fishing fleet
● Measures in three areas:
- pelagic system with transferable quotas
- regulation of cod fisheries in the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea
- coastal fishery
● New initiatives in aquaculture
● Investment in fishing tourism
● Extended fishery control
Fishing regulation in Sweden
The majority of fishing regulations can be found in statutes within the
framework of the EU´s Common Fisheries Policy and Sweden's
fisheries legislation.
Some fishery regulations have been determined with the support of
the Environmental Code. This applies primarily to certain prohibitions
on fishery and aquaculture operations within nature reserves, but may
also have been prescribed by the Government or the Environmental
Court in conjunction with construction activities in the water. Examples
of the latter include fishing bans below hydroelectric power dams.
Local fisheries management co-operatives, which manage individual
waters, can to some extent take decisions on fishery regulations within
their areas.
EU legislation - we implement
regulations decided within the CFP
Regulations for the fishing fleet
-Catch quotas
-Protected areas
-Technical regulations such as mesh size, other selectivity installations
on gear, days at sea (effort days), off-season periods
-Vessel permits (Sweden over 5 meter)
-Fisheries control regulations
The minimum is that we implement regulations decided within the CFP
but we can decide to implement more severe regulations.
National legislation - We regulate the
fishing industry and recreational fishing
in Sweden
along the coast out to 4 nautical miles, the Great Lakes
Vänern, Vättern, Mälaren, Hjälmaren and Storsjön and
running water from the coast up to the first obstacle:
Fishing industry – implementation of CFP but also national regulations
for non quota species, restricted/protected areas, off-season periods,
minimum sizes.
Recreational fishing – gear regulations such as mesh size, restricted
protected areas, off-season periods, minimum sizes.
Fiske 2020 should be viewed as a strategy for bringing ecosystem services in
seas and lakes into the spotlight
aims to provide a basis for the debate on sustainable fishing
a number of objectives to be reached, where the principles for
fisheries management are based on wider ecosystem considerations.
include all categories of fishing – fishing by the general public,
commercial fishing and fishing tourism – as well as aquaculture.
Target areas
Target Area 1: Ensuring Functioning Ecosystems and Ecosystem
Services.
Target Area 2: Fisheries management
Target Area 3: Public Fishing
Target Area 4: Commercial Fishing
Target Area 5: Fishing Tourism
Target Area 6: Aquaculture
Target Area 7: The Processing of Fish
Target Area 8: Consumption and Trade