European nations under pressure to save the critically endangered Baltic harbour porpoise
At a meeting of northern European nations held online this week, the issue of the critically endangered harbour porpoise population in the Baltic Sea was discussed and…
Continue readingEU Council of Ministers Urged to Take Decisions to Counter Baltic Sea Crisis
Brussels, 31 August 2020:- Responding to the publication of the European Commission’s proposal for Baltic Sea fishing limits for 2021, NGOs today called on EU Baltic…
Continue readingCommission takes legal action against France, Spain and Sweden to protect marine mammals
The European Commission has demanded today that France, Spain and Sweden take immediate action to prevent the needless deaths of dolphins and porpoises killed every year…
Continue readingLack of national political will is driving European seas to the brink
Today, the European Commission published a report assessing the progress with the implementation of the EU’s Marine Directive , adopted in 2008. The report comes…
Continue readingJoint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2021
In October 2020, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2021. As the deadline to end overfishing by 2020 at the…
Continue readingBaltic Sea Fish Stocks Remain in Crisis – NGOs Call for Closures of Herring and Cod stocks
Brussels, 29 May 2020:- Responding to today’s publication of annual scientific advice for EU fishing limits for…
Continue readingMiljöorganisationer välkomnar vetenskapliga råd för att stoppa bifångster av den akut hotade Östersjötumlaren
Sverige, 26 Maj 2020 – Forskare från ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) släppte idag vetenskapliga råd för att stoppa bifångster av tumlaren…
Continue readingNGOs welcome scientists’ advice to halt bycatch of endangered Baltic Proper harbour porpoise
Scientists from the International Council for the Exploration (ICES) have published a landmark advice today, warning the European Commission that immediate action is…
Continue readingCCB joins the Surfrider Foundation Europe´s campaign #DrillingIsKilling
On the 20th of April 2010, the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, the deepest offshore oil platform, led…
Continue readingNGOs urge Baltic countries to speed up commitments to the Baltic Sea Action Plan
Helsinki, 3 March 2020 – This week at the HELCOM Stakeholder Conference and High-level Meeting , Coalition…
Continue readingThe Baltic Shadow Plan: for the future of the Baltic Sea
This shadow plan presents NGO requests to HELCOM for the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) update.
Continue reading109 Organizations Around the Globe Urge World Leaders to Reach a WTO Deal to Help Save Our Ocean
This June, governments around the world must fulfil their commitment to curb the public money that supports overfishing and degrades our ocean. After nearly two decades of…
Continue readingBlue Manifesto – The Roadmap to a Healthy Ocean in 2030
More than 100 environmental organisations, led by Seas At Risk, BirdLife Europe, ClientEarth, Oceana, Surfrider Foundation Europe and WWF launched the “Blue Manifesto”. The rescue…
Continue readingTen actions on our Christmas “wishlist” to ensure Ministers deliver a concrete plan to save the Baltic Sea
As the end of the year approaches, children and adults alike, will be writing their wish lists in the hopes that they might get a present on…
Continue readingEU Commission misses opportunity to halt dolphin and porpoise deaths this winter
The European Commission said today that it will not take emergency measures this winter to tackle the tragic death of dolphins caught in fishing nets.
Continue readingCCB´s comment to Ministers’ decision on TACs for the Baltic Sea
CCB´s comment to Ministers’ decision on TACs for the Baltic Sea – Better than expected, but…
Continue readingGroups call on the European Commission to take action over huge number of cetacean deaths
Thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales die in European waters, due to accidental capture in fisheries nets (bycatch). Today 21 environmental NGOs , led by Seas At…
Continue readingJoint NGO recommendations on Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2020
1. Executive Summary In October 2019, EU fisheries ministers will agree on fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2020. This will…
Continue readingSave #OurBlueLung – 20 measures for clean and healthy seas by 2020
With little more than a year until the deadline, all countries of the European Union are failing on their legal obligation to ‘take all necessary measures to achieve Good…
Continue readingA joint NGO proposal to EU Ministers regarding European eel
On December 17th and 18th 2018 the EU Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) will decide on fishing opportunities for 2019 and will address measures for critically endangered European eel. ICES has yet…
Continue readingWWF Sweden, SSNC and CCB call upon Swedish government to stop fishing for eels
WWF Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) and Coalition Clean Baltic urges the Swedish government to ban eel fishing in the EU. The European eel is a critically endangered…
Continue readingUrgent political will needed to halt European marine habitat neglect
Environmental organisations call for real measures in areas protected on paper ClientEarth, Coalition Clean Baltic, Oceana, Seas at Risk and WWF warn that marine life across Europe is being harmed…
Continue readingEU ministers fail to help the Baltic cod but helped the salmon
Yesterday the EU ministers agreed to setting total allowable catches (TACs) for the main fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. Yet again, both Commission and Member States fail to…
Continue readingNord Stream 2 AG has confirmed presence of “additional” 4 redlisted plant species within the proposed route of its gas pipeline across Kurgalsky Nature Reserve, in the Leningrad Region of Russia
In its official press-release from June 25, 2018 published only in Russian in Zug (Switzerland) and Saint Petersburg (Russia), the Nord Stream 2 AG, the developer of the…
Continue readingCCB position on grey seals in the Baltic Sea
The grey seal count for 2017 in the Baltic Sea was above 30 000 individuals. According to the IUCN, the counted animals are thought to be 60-80% of the total…
Continue readingCCB supports the joint call on the European anti-fraud office to open a formal investigation about electric fishing
CCB has signed the joint formal request, lead by the Bloom Association, to the European Anti Freud Office (known as OLAF from the French “Office européen de lutte antifraude”)…
Continue readingCCB position on the Sweden approval for the Nord Stream II
On 7 June 2018, the Swedish Government has granted a permit to the Nord Stream 2 AG for laying two natural gas pipelines on the continental shelf within the…
Continue readingBaltic Sea still blighted by illegal discarding and overfishing
Our Fish and CCB Press release: One-half cut in quota for eastern Baltic cod proposed Western Baltic cod under safe biological limits and illegal…
Continue readingCall to action for the EU countries: 3 steps to restore our seas by 2020
Despite the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008), most EU countries are a long way off in achieving their targets to protect and restore our seas to healthy…
Continue readingThe turning point for saving the Baltic Sea is now
The action plan linked to the ecosystem approach which the Helsinki convention (HELCOM) agreed upon in 2007 is at risk. The progress of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)…
Continue reading20 NGOs call upon EU ministers to explain what they will do to protect the eel
The eel is critically endangered. The EU Commission has proposed to ban EU marine catches of adult eels to increase possibilities for…
Continue readingCCB Briefing – the facts about eel
What you need to know and understand about the eel, Anguilla anguilla Facts about eel (Anguilla anguilla) There is only one single stock of European eel Eel is a commercial…
Continue readingCCB welcomes EU Commission proposal to ban fishing for eel in the Baltic Sea
The European Eel is a critically endangered fish species with a dramatic stock size decline the past 30 years. Conservation efforts have so far failed to deliver and scientific…
Continue readingNord Stream 2 considers route through nature reserve optimal
The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology has provided its European counterparts with the report on Environmental Impact Assessment of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The document favours…
Continue readingNGOs urge EU Parliament to remain firm against fisheries subsidies
CCB together with more than 100 European Organisations call upon MEPs to support the 2014 Parliament position that maintained the ban on subsidies for the construction of new fishing…
Continue readingBaltic-wide actions needed to reach SDG targets
Today, high-level representatives of the HELCOM Contracting Parties will meet in Helsinki to discuss regional Baltic Sea contribution to conservation and sustainable use of the seas and marine resources…
Continue readingSweden designates large Natura 2000 area for the Baltic Sea harbour porpoise
As an early Christmas present to the harbour porpoises of the Baltic Sea, the Swedish government recently announced that a large Natura 2000 site will be designated for harbour…
Continue readingUrgent action needed for Lithuanian rivers
A proposal to amend the Lithuanian Water Act and Law of Protected areas threatens two of the last rivers in Europe with open fish migratory pathways, Nemunas and Neris,…
Continue readingCCB letter to Commisioner Vella about eel
In April 2016 CCB sent a letter to the Commission pointing to the illegal catches of eel but also questioning the legal fishery on an endangered species and if the…
Continue readingMinisters: uphold your responsibilities on marine protection
CCB has joined a group of NGOs (Greenpeace, Oceana, WWF, Swedish and Danish Societies for Nature conservation, Swedish and Danish Anglers Associations, Living Sea and Fisheries Secretariat) and written…
Continue readingPRESS RELEASE: Global temperature increases: an alarming scenario for the Baltic Sea
1 December 2015, Uppsala, Sweden Global temperature increases: an alarming scenario for the Baltic Sea Prior to the opening of the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change, Coalition Clean Baltic…
Continue readingDemand EU to stop eel fishing
28 environmental organizations demand that the EU Commission will stop all eel fishing in Europe along with other needed action to halt the human induced eel mortality until the…
Continue readingInternational Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise
Baltic Harbour Porpoise Needs Protection The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is the only species of cetacean native to the Baltic Sea. It is estimated to consist of approximately 450 animals…
Continue readingYouth Declaration on the Protection of the Gulf of Finland
After studying specific features of the Gulf, current problems and possible ways to solve those problems, schoolchildren from Russia, Finland and Estonia developed a declaration that was adopted on…
Continue readingNew facts on harbour porpoise
CCB has made a new brochure containing fresh scientific data on the amount -and location of Baltic harbour porpoises. The situation for the local population of porpoises is critical…
Continue readingLegal implications Natura 2000 and Common Fishery Policy (CFP)
An ongoing discussion in EU is how to solve legal conflicts within the EU legislation, not least between environmental legislation and policies such as agriculture and fisheries. CCB has…
Continue readingThe Baltic Harbour Porpoise more widely distributed than previously known
CCB has produced a new brochure on the problems and needs of the Baltic harbour porpoise population. It is crucial that all Member states that has the porpoise in its…
Continue readingCCB report on Baltic EU Member States implementation of MSFD
The MSFD is an important EU legislation for our seas. If fully and coherently implemented, MSFD can be a powerful tool to monitor and improve EU seas and the…
Continue readingHelcom Ministerial Declaration 2013: Environmental ministers severely delay deadlines to restore the Baltic Sea
Today, Baltic Sea Environmental Ministers signed a HELCOM Ministerial Declaration, reviewing the progress on targets agreed in the 2007 HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP), in Copenhagen ,…
Continue readingDiverging views between governments put the future of the Baltic Sea in jeopardy
Baltic Sea Environment Ministers will put pen to paper and sign the review of the Baltic Sea Action Plan in less than a month….
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