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Advice & Recommendations

During the more than 17 years the organisation has been active, the recommendations produced have covered a wide range of topics. The BSAC has advised on fishing quotas, marine spatial planning, technical measures but also on recreational fishing or offshore windfarms. These have sometimes taken the form of letters with compromise positions or divided answers to targeted questionnaires. However, these recommendations are always the product of members’ input whether it is by writing or during meetings.

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BSAC recommendations for the Baltic fisheries 2021

Sent date:29/06/2020 | Reply date:31/08/2020

Letter from the BSAC ExCom chair to DG Mare
BSAC recommendations CORR 190820
Attached to the recommendations are contributions from:

Reply from DG Mare 
And here’s the compilation of the BSAC positions to the Commission’s proposal for fishing opportunities in the Baltic (for the BSAC chair to use at BALTFISH Forum 7th September 2020)

29/06/20
Letter to EFCA on cooperation between the ACs and EFCA

Sent date:29/05/20 | Reply date:N/A

This is a joint letter from the BSAC and PELAC to EFCA with suggestions on how to improve cooperation between the ACs and EFCA
The letter 
The BSAC did not receive a reply to this
29/05/20
BSAC letter to DG Mare about Regulation 2019/1838

Sent date:29/05/2020 | Reply date:N/A

This is about EU Regulation 2019/1838 with respect to the bycatch for eastern Baltic cod and its impact on other fisheries; anticipating the advice for 2021
The letter from the BSAC is here
The BSAC did not receive a reply to this
29/05/20
BSAC follow up on recommendations on Control Regulation

Sent date:14/05/2020 | Reply date:N/A

The BSAC sent a follow-up to its recommendations to the Commission’s proposal for a control regulation
It concerns the completion of the fishing log book
Letter from the BSAC 
14/05/20
Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy

Sent date:01/05/2020 | Reply date:08/10/2020

01/05/20
BSAC reply to BALTFISH consultation on exemption of salmon from landing obligation

Sent date:01/05/2020 | Reply date:N/A

The BSAC was asked to comment on a joint BALTFISH recommendation to exempt from the landing obligation all catches of salmon in the Baltic Sea caught with certain nets
The letter from the BSAC to BALTFISH
The individual replies from BSAC ExCom members can be got from the BSAC Secretariat
The letter from BALTFISH to the BSAC is here Click
01/05/20
Letter from BSAC and PELAC on rebuilding plan for western Baltic herring

Sent date:21/04/2020 | Reply date:14/5/2020

21/04/20
BSAC Statement on fisheries and fisheries management

Sent date:21/04/20 | Reply date:07/5/20

BSAC statement on the need for a responsible approach to fisheries and fisheries management in the Baltic
The BSAC was unable to hold an ExCom meeting on 17th March 2020. The statement was drafted and finalised in written procedure.
The Statement is here
Reply from DGMare 
Reply from the BSAC chair to DG Mar
21/04/20
BSAC Recommendations to Commission proposal on revised control regulation

Sent date:11/02/2020 | Reply date:7/04/2020

BSAC ExCom chair letter and BSAC recommendations were sent on the 11th February 2020, the reply was received from from DG Mare on the 7th April 2020.
A follow-up answer was drafted and sent in May 2020.
11/02/20 Reply from DG Mare  BSAC ExCom chair letter  BSACrecommendationsCOMControlFINAL
Joint ACs advice on EMFF funding for scientific research projects

Sent date:05/12/2019 | Reply date:

Letter from 6 of the Advisory Councils to DG Mare asking for funding to be provided under EMFF for ACs to carry  out projects. The BSAC co-signed the letter.
Letter 
05/12/19
Letter from and reply to DG Mare about small scale fisheries in the ACs

Sent date:28/11/2019 | Reply date:

28/11/19
BSAC recommends basic principles on fisheries management measures

Sent date:11/07/2019 | Reply date:

The BSAC recommends basic principles on the development of the fisheries management measures in Natura 2000 and protected areas are the output from the BSAC ecosysytem based working group held on 13th March 2019.
Letter to Commission and Member States
The basic principles
11/07/19

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