The document discusses synergies and conflicts between fisheries and other sectors such as offshore wind, maritime spatial planning, shipping, and the environment. Some key synergies mentioned are that offshore wind farm installation could provide new habitat, and marine protected areas (MPAs) can improve fishing grounds and stocks. The top conflicts listed are loss of trawling areas due to other uses, pollution and noise from shipping damaging habitats and fishing, and limitations on fishing from MPAs. The workshop participants evaluated various synergies and conflicts on criteria of whether they are real, transboundary, and relevant to planning.

1. FISHERIES
Workshop 2: cross sectorial

2. Top 5 vs. Fisheries
Synergies
1. Offshore wind farm installation potential habitat
2. MPA protection measures can improve fishing
grounds, spawning, stocks
Conflicts
1. Loss of trawling fishing areas
2. Shipping pollution, noise, damage
3. MPA sets limitation to fishing (also a synergy)

3. Method at workshop
1. Look at the list* of synergies
2. Add new ones
3. Check if the synergy is…
a) real
b) transboundary
c) planning
4. Chose the most important
5. Repeat step 1-4 for conflicts
* The list was made by experts at Tallinn meeting, who tried all sectors
vs. all sectors.

4. Participants at workshop
Terje Selnes Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Senior Analyst, Sweden
Solvita Strake Latvian Institute of Aquatic Eology, Head of Hydrobiological laboratory Department of
Marine Monitoring, Latvia
Kristine Kedo Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Head of Spatial
planning policy division, Latvia
Anni Konsap Estonian Ministry of Finance, Aviser of Planning Department, Estonia
Georgs Korņilovs Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIO, Head of Fish
resources research department, Latvia
Marta Konik Maritime Office in Szczecin, GIS Specialist in Maritime Spatial Planning and Geodesy
Department, Poland
Didzis Ustups The Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR”, Head of Sea
Division, Latvia
Eva Rosenhall Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Senior Analyst MSP, Sweden
Wilhelm Gårdmark Baltic SCOPE , Project Co-Manager

5. List on Fisheries vs Energy
Real, TB, Planning
Synergies
1. Wind farm installation = potential habitat ?, Y, Y
Uncertain knowledge if this is true and for which species.
Nonetheless, we still have to handle it in planning.
2. Commercial fishing in wind farms and wave areas under certain
conditions Y, -, -
Could be done since it’s far between turbines? But perhaps if the
fish is there :)
3. Floating wind farms could be marine protected areas Y,-,-
Solution. Perhaps. Perhaps rather a solution - wind farms as
hinders for fishing. Ice makes it harder.

6. List on Fisheries vs Energy
Real, TB, Planing
Conflicts
Wind farms
1. Can destroy habitat benthic species Y, ?, Y
Local impact?
2. Vibration noise affects -,-,-
3. Displacement / alteration habitats -,-,-
4. Cumulative effect Y,-,-
5. + Loss of trawling fishing areas Y, Y, Y
Activity
Power cables
1. Construction temporal impact benthic Y?, Y, -
2. Electro-magnetic field disturb Y, Y, -

7. List on Fisheries vs Shipping
Real, TB, Planning
Syenergies
1. Co-existance marine -, -, -
2. + Ports Y, Y, Y
Mulituse ports, Landing points, infrastructure.

8. List on Fisheries vs Shipping Real TB Planing
Conflicts
1. Shipping noise Y*, Y, Y
*check if true (some Bonus project researched)
May vary in time. Problem probably increase if shipping density and
hence noise increase. Solution can be both spatial and temporal.
2. Pollution / damage habitats y, Y, Y
(What is meant here by pollution? Oil spills? We choose to focus on traffic
here, not crashes) Oil on birds at Gotland every day – on fish to? Oil
tanker crash in Klaipeda)
3. Limitation of passive gears in shipping routes ---
Latvia scientist are more happy with trawlers than gill nets due to a better
flexibility of change the type of gears to still be able to fish.
4. + Ship turbines chopping up baby fish at spawning grounds ---

9. List on Fisheries vs
Environment
Real, TB, Planning
Synergies
1. Fish need good environmental status Y, Y, y
2. Direct (targeted) fishing to control invasive species y, Y, N
3. Sustainable use of stock -, -, -
4. MPA protection measures can improve fishing grounds, spawning,
stocks Y, Y, Y*
May be fishing restrictions in MPA .*But not planning issue in all
countries?

10. List on Fisheries vs
Environment
Real, TB, Planning
Conflicts
1. Demersal trawling possibly effect benthic habitats ?, Y, -
Unsure knowledge, contradictory studies.
2. By-catch of seals, harbour porpoise, birds Y, Y, N
Management
3. Seals damage gears and eat fish from gears Y, Y, N
Management
4. MPA sets limitation to fishing (also a synergy) Y*, Y**,-
*Yes only if limitation. *Yes only if in EEZ. Number of MPAs not
most important factor, but what you are alowed to do, what is
restricted. Rules vary with country.

11. Top 3 synergies Fisheries
1. Offshore wind farm installation = potential habitat
2. MPA protection measures can improve fishing
grounds, spawning, stocks
3. --

12. Top 3 conflicts Fisheries
1. Loss of trawling fishing areas
2. Shipping pollution, noise, damage
3. MPA sets limitation to fishing (also a synergy)