This report describes the multiple threats now jeopardising the marine life and ecology of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. It proposes an approach to countering these threats involving the establishment of networks of large-scale marine reserves...

The North and Baltic Seas are in crisis.Pollution from land-based sources, excessive nutrients from agricultural runoff,airborn inputs originating from a variety of sources such as traffic, fish-farming, oil and gas exploration, sand and gravel...

Europe is surrounded by four seas (the Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and North Seas) and two oceans (the Atlantic and Arctic) and twenty of the twenty-five Member States of the European Union (EU) are coastal states. These oceans and seas are...

The United Nations (UN) states that the main factors determining biodiversity loss in our oceans are overfishing and climate change. Cod is a case in point. Once so dense that fish could literally be scooped out of the sea, the majority of the...