External meeting
2nd Ecosystem-based fisheries management HELCOM common understanding drafting group session
26 March 2025
2nd Ecosystem-based fisheries management HELCOM common understanding drafting group session
External meeting
Fisheries
Start date: 26 March 2025
End date: 26 March 2025
Time:
Place: Online
Address:
Official meetings of all HELCOM Working and Experts Groups and other subsidiary bodies are postponed due to the HELCOM strategic pause until further notice, however, informal consultation sessions, without Russian participation, are organized and hosted by a Contracting Party.
The informal consultation sessions process and discuss documents and provide guidance and recommendations as to how to progress work.
The informal consultation sessions process and discuss documents and provide guidance and recommendations as to how to progress work.
Description
No agenda or outcome available. The session took place on March 26, 2025. Here is the related paragraph from the Memo of IC WG FISH 5-2025:
3.1 The Session recommended the next steps in finalizing the HELCOM common understanding of EBFM:
a. the drafting group of Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Poland, CCB and WWF to address the proposals from the workshop, Secretariat will circulate a doodle poll to identify a date as soon as possible;
b. the Secretariat and the Contracting Parties would engage with the BSAC EBM working group on 21 May 2025 to present an update on the draft version of the EBFM common understanding and explore differences and similarities in the approach;
c. the Secretariat would inform on progress of the common understanding with BALTFISH;
d. the drafting group would submit a final version of the document for approval to IC WG FISH 6-2025 and forwarding to IC HOD 8-2025 in December;
e. the Working Group would circulate the EBFM common understanding document with other subsidiary bodies and other organizations such as BSAC and BALTFISH upon its completion to identify concrete tasks and actions to implement EBFM.
CCB's participants in the event
- Aimi Hamberg, CCB Marine Policy Officer
Participation supported by
CCB's participation in the event was supported by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither
the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them.
3.1 The Session recommended the next steps in finalizing the HELCOM common understanding of EBFM:
a. the drafting group of Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Poland, CCB and WWF to address the proposals from the workshop, Secretariat will circulate a doodle poll to identify a date as soon as possible;
b. the Secretariat and the Contracting Parties would engage with the BSAC EBM working group on 21 May 2025 to present an update on the draft version of the EBFM common understanding and explore differences and similarities in the approach;
c. the Secretariat would inform on progress of the common understanding with BALTFISH;
d. the drafting group would submit a final version of the document for approval to IC WG FISH 6-2025 and forwarding to IC HOD 8-2025 in December;
e. the Working Group would circulate the EBFM common understanding document with other subsidiary bodies and other organizations such as BSAC and BALTFISH upon its completion to identify concrete tasks and actions to implement EBFM.
CCB's participants in the event
- Aimi Hamberg, CCB Marine Policy Officer
Participation supported by
CCB's participation in the event was supported by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither
the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them.
