Fish: RFTB hosts 2023 fishing season kick-off meeting

Homemade Mexican fish tacos made from bream.

RFTB remains engaged in securing a long-term solution to ensure the sustainability of bream and id fishing in the Baltic Sea.

To-date, the fishing has been carried out through a regulation and monitoring cooperation between RFTB, the County Administrative Boards (LS), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the fishers.

RFTB hosted a meeting in March with key stakeholders (fishers, distributors, SLU and LS from Norrbotten and Gotland) to review catch results from 2022 and discuss procedures for the coming fishing season.

In general, there are reports of greater demand for bream fish patties from the public and private sector and fishers continue to be positive about the project.