Baltic Coast Dialog

Establishing a network of international stakeholders to effectively protect and restore the coastal and marine ecosystems of the Baltic Sea

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Final Conference ""Sea of Opportunities: Collaborating Towards Effective Protection and Restoration of the Baltic Sea"

22 - 24 September 2025

Stralsund, Germany

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About Us

We are passionate marine environmentalists from Germany, Lithuania, Sweden and Poland supporting an effective protection and restoration of our Baltic Sea ecosystems.

Importance of Baltic Sea protection

Baltic Coast Dialog promotes an effective protection and restoration of our marine and coastal ecosystems for a healthy and vital Baltic Sea

Baltic Coast Dialog is an international network that brings together actors from environmental organisations, fisheries, agriculture, tourism, science and authorities. We advocate the implementation of effective protection and restoration measures as well as sustainable fisheries management in the marine and coastal ecosystems of the Baltic Sea. The network offers an interactive dialog series with thematic specialisations on jointly selected topics relevant to a healthy Baltic Sea. In workshops network members can openly and constructively discuss relevant issues of marine conservation and fisheries management. The network aims to reduce language barriers while strengthening the flow of information and experience between stakeholders. We intend to develop synergies and joint perspectives that combine both conflicts of marine and coastal uses as well as requirements of biodiversity conservation. As a result, formal proceedings for both transnational and national measures in the marine and coastal waters of the Baltic Sea may be accelerated. Join us and add your statement about Baltic Coast Dialog today.

Recently published Media

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 02 Mindful Conservation – Fabian Ritter

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presention 07 Bycatch of Baltic Proper Harbour Porpoises – Julia Carlström

Transnational Objectives and Joint Recommendations to ban Bottom Trawling in the Baltic Sea

Workshop 5 Bycatch Baltic Sea Nov 2025 – Results

Workshop Ecosystem-​Based Management and Fisheries: Ecosystem-based marine management put into practice in the Stockholm archipelago, Gustav Almqvist

Workshop Ecosystem-​Based Management and Fisheries: Fish Lab – From Science to Action, Amanda Öberg, BalticWaters

Workshop Ecosystem-​Based Management and Fisheries: Pike factories – restoring predatory fish populations and their habitats, Lars Ljunggren_

Workshop Fisheries Management in MPAs: Bottom trawling and spatial planning in the Danish Baltic Sea

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 08 Setting Acceptable Limits for Seabird Bycatch in the Polish Baltic Sea – Dominik Marchowski

Workshop Program “Management in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): Impacts and Regulation of bottom trawling”

Geplante Gasbohrungen vor Borkum gestoppt

Workshop 1-5 Results

Priority Areas of Future Cooperation Requiring Ecosystem Restoration Efforts

Examples of fisheries and coastal management that serve local solutions to shared environmental problems in the Baltic Sea

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 05 HELCOM’s Roadmap on Fisheries Data – Katarzyna Kamińska

Workshop Marine mammal and bird bycatch in the Baltic Sea – Turning knowledge into action

Presentation: Introduction to Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management, Dr. Sara Söderström

Workshop Program Coastal Biodiversity Management

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 01 Introduction BCD – ROD

FINAL CONFERENCE “Sea of Opportunities: Collaborating Towards Effective Protection and Restoration of the Baltic Sea”

Project Outcome: Measures for the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems in the project regions

Brochure “Sea of Opportunities – Collaborating Towards Effective Protection and Restoration of the Baltic Sea”

Workshop Blue Restoration: HELCOM’s role in restoring marine and coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea area

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 13 Beyond the Mesh – Thomas Noack

Workshop Ecosystem-​Based Management and Fisheries: Implementing international Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Jean-Cristophe, Pew

Workshop Bycatch Nov 2025 Presentation 10 International Experience of Cetacean Bycatch Mitigation – Russel Leaper

Launch infos from Rewilding Oder Delta

Meer der Möglichkeiten: Zusammenarbeit für einen wirksamen Schutz und die Wiederherstellung der Ostsee

Workshop Blue Restoration: Salt Marshes in the Polish Coast area

Workshop Fisheries Management in MPAs: Bottom trawling in HELCOM MPAs

State of the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is currently in a poor environmental condition due to severe anthropogenic overexploitation. Overfishing, pollution, eutrophication and the climate crisis threaten the marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. Despite formal protection status, hardly any effective conservation measures are in place to date. The maritime spatial planning of the Baltic Sea Member States follows a concept of overuse characterised by conflicts of use, thus preventing the achievement of a good environmental status of the Baltic Sea and its transboundary marine and coastal waters.

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