Fish Project's final phase

While our Nefco funded Baltic Fish Project has officially ended, Race For The Baltic’s project will continue until the final pieces have been put in place. For Race For The Baltic’s part, the main remaining piece is to find a long-term solution of the projects role to ensure the sustainability of the fishing. Today this is done by a regulation and monitoring cooperation between Race For The Baltic, the County Administrative Boards, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the fishers.

At the end of October, Race For The Baltic held a meeting with the involved parties as well as the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) to discuss any necessary development or updates in the current setup. All partners were positive to the continuation of the fishing and we are hopeful that a long-term solution will be found in 2022. Another new meeting is scheduled for February 2022.

The other remaining piece of the project is to grow demand further. Ultimately this work is led by the fishers. However, during Q421 Race For The Baltic arranged servings of bream patties and other products at Mannheimer Swartling’s different locations and at an event in Karlskrona together with Blekinge Arkipelag and County Administrative Board of Blekinge. Both servings were a success, and we are looking forward to more bream being served in 2022!

In general, interest amongst fishers is growing and the fishers are more and more active in the sales and marketing work of the products. Servings are continuing and we expect the release of C-19 restrictions to increase orders further in 2022. We are also working on making these products available to the private consumer and will help the fishers in additional marketing work in Q122.

During 2021 the Baltic Fish Project has grown from 3 to 10 involved fishermen and together they have fished more than 18 tonnes of bream and ide.