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Coalition Clean Baltic - Save Baltic Sea environment
CCB is a network for cooperation and coordination between environmental NGOs active in the Baltic Sea catchment area.
Links to useful resources and various actors associated with the Baltic Sea and the Baltic Sea Region:.
Prevention of installations and transports harmful to the Baltic Sea environment.
Larus Marinus Adventures in the Baltic Sea.
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the CCB Annual Conference Baltic 07 and the CCB Extra Ordinary General Meeting, which will be held in Rostock, Germany, 11-13 May 2007.
Welcome to CCB Summer Course, 2007 Do you want to learn more about the Baltic Sea? This years course "Our Common Baltic" will be held 25 June - 1July.
The workshop will discuss and finalise the CCB policy paper for the meeting of the Baltic Agriculture and Environment Ministers.The workshop will be held in Jurmala, Latvia on Sunday, 18 March 2007.
Thanks for all your efforts for the Baltic Sea 2006! Now we are looking forward to a new year with new challenges, important activities and continued good co-operation!.
Focus will be on the development of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) and on water protection in agriculture.
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the CCB Annual Conference Baltic 06 and the CCB 15th General Meeting, which will be held in Lviv in Ukraine, 19-21 May 2006.


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ES&T Online News: Another toxin for the Baltic Sea?
The Baltic Sea, long plagued by contaminants and toxic cyanobacteria blooms, may have a new class of marine toxins to add to its environmental problems, according to results published today on ES&T ’s Research ASAP website (DOI: 10.1021/es0624725 )..
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute A recently discovered marine toxin may be made by tiny organisms such as cyanobacteria, which create huge blooms each year in the Baltic Sea.
The researchers measured increasing levels of PBDDs over the past decade.
Already, some Baltic Sea fish can’t be sold because they exceed European Commission thresholds for total dioxins, he adds..
The team found that on the basis of geographical distribution, the Baltic PBDDs are likely to be produced naturally in coastal waters.
“This study raises a lot of questions, ” says Sheryl Tittlemier of the food research division of Health Canada, who has studied natural organohalogens.
“How do concentrations in mussels vary over a year?” she asks, noting that cyanobacteria and mussel populations, and thus risk, could fluctuate seasonally..
Although the research points out a natural source for brominated dioxins that is unassociated with flame retardants, several researchers say that doesn’t let chemical manufacturers off the hook.

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Regional Policy Inforegio
The European Commission has decided to take an active part in the development of the Baltic Sea Region by part-financing the Interreg III B transnational co-operation programme in favour of the following countries: Denmark, North-East Germany, Sweden and Finland Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in the European Union, Norway as well as Russia and Belarus.
Moreover, different actions focus on strategies and solutions concerning Pan-Baltic intermodal transport and information society, as well as the development of green networks and the management of water resources.
The region's land cover is mainly dominated by forests (nearly 50% of the territory) and the rest by arable lands (20% of the Baltic Sea Region).
In fact there is a fundamental divide between west and east but also between the north and south of the Baltic Sea Region.
The programme uses this integrated approach between the various countries of the Baltic Sea Region not only to foster the economic development of the area but also to promote an integrated management of natural assets of transnational importance, to promote and develop technological and scientific networks between Baltic cities, to encourage a well functioning network of multimodal communication, transport and energy sector, to promote concrete co-operation on integrated planning and management of the coastal zones and islands and, finally, to support activities to identify travel and tourism on a Pan-Baltic level.

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European Commission - Fisheries - The International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission (IBSFC)
The Area of Competence of the IBSFC comprises the Baltic Sea and the Belts.
On signing this Convention, the Contracting Parties recognised that they shared responsibility both for protecting the living marine resources of the Baltic Sea and for making rational use of such resources.
The duty of the Commission is to co-ordinate the management of the living resources in the Convention area and to prepare and submit recommendations based on results of scientific research for consideration of the Contracting Parties..
In the interest of the conservation of the living resources and their rational exploitation, the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission establishes a number of Regulatory Measures for the fishing activity in the Baltic Sea: Total Allowable Catches (TACs), or catch limits for the main four commercially exploited species: cod, salmon, herring and sprat.
IBSFC is the lead party for fisheries matters of the Agenda 21 of the Baltic Sea Region.
83/414/EEC: Council Decision of 25 July 1983 on the accession of the Community to the Convention on fishing and conservation of the living resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts, as amended by the Protocol to the Conference of the representatives of the States Parties to the Convention signed in Warsaw on 11 November 1982 Council Regulation (EC) No 414/96 of 4 March 1996 laying down certain monitoring measures applicable to fishing activities carried out in the waters of the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound Council Regulation (EC) No 88/98 of 18 December 1997 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources in the waters of the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound Council Regulation (EC) No 779/97 of 24 April 1997 introducing arrangements for the management of fishing effort in the Baltic Sea .

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