The report of the Migratory Fish and Maritime Spatial Planning workshop is now published!
A workshop explored ways to better integrate migratory fish considerations in maritime spatial planning. Participants assessed the Maritime Spatial Plan for Finland 2030. The report from the workshop has now been published.
The aim of the event was to strengthen the consideration of migratory fish in Finnish maritime spatial planning. The development of offshore wind power, which is underway in the Gulf of Bothnia, may influence migratory fish and thereby have significant regional impacts not only on the Torne River in both Finland and Sweden, but also for the migratory fish populations in the whole Gulf of Bothnia. There was a need to take a closer look at how migratory fish are integrated into the Finnish maritime spatial plan and how issues related to migratory fish can further be strengthened by the Finnish strategic maritime spatial plan.
The workshop participants evaluated from their perspective how the Maritime Spatial Plan for Finland 2030 considers migratory fish. The purpose was also to assess new possibilities for strengthening migratory fish related planning in the ongoing revision of the maritime spatial plan, as well as to learn from and compare with the approaches taken in the Swedish maritime spatial plan.
The workshop was organised in the framework of the Finnish – Swedish Transboundary River Commission seminar on offshore wind and migratory fish on 8-9 October 2024. You can read more about the seminar and the workshop in the previously published news.
