Balticsea 2020

Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present

Informing the public, the true owners of the resources, and the law-makers who represent them, of the true status of the impact of fisheries on the health of the sea is difficult.

Fisheries are supported by a strong lobby which, similarly to Tobacco companies with regards to the effects of cigarettes, challenges the obvious to maintain the unacceptable.

This implies, among other things, that data from which the state of the ocean is to be inferred should be transparent, widely available and compelling.