The results of the investigation are expected in the fourth quarter of 2020
To ensure the quality of drinking water in Frankfurt (Oder), a management decree for sulphate was jointly issued by the Ministry of Environment and Economics in 2019. According to the State Office for the Environment, the drinking water limit value for sulphate is 250 milligrams per liter in pure water. This value has been complied with by the Briesen waterworks so far.
The LBGR has already commissioned an expert opinion for the Briesen waterworks. This is intended to better assess the danger situation for the drinking water supply at the location of the waterworks. The results of the investigation are expected in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Green League, the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) and the Greens have long been calling for an emergency aid plan for the country. The state government is not sufficiently prepared for the rising sulfate levels in drinking water, said Michaela Kruse, climate protection officer at BUND Brandenburg.
Rostock (dpa) – When fishermen in the North and Baltic Seas cast their nets, they usually target a special type of fish such as herring or cod. But they often catch other fish species or fish that are too small.
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In 2013, the EU therefore decided to ban unwanted fish caught on discards with the aim of reducing bycatch in the nets. If flatfish end up in the cod net, they must now be brought ashore. With the discard ban, fishermen should be encouraged to use more selective nets – and thus not to draw so many unwanted fish onto the ship in the first place. In most cases, these animals are so badly injured by the net that they die after being thrown into the sea.
However, data from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices) now suggests that the discard ban, which has been gradually but bindingly introduced since 2015, does not apply and a large number of fish accidentally caught continue to end up as discards in the sea.
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In 2017, the Ices researchers identified at least 11.2 percent bycatch for the cod fishery in the eastern Baltic Sea: of the almost 31,000 tons of catch, at least 3,450 tons were bycatches.123helpme.me The figure is based on observations by scientific observers and confidential information from fishermen.
The bycatch rate for plaice in the Kattegat and the Belten was 21.8 percent and for North Sea cod around 19 percent. The landings and the logbook entries of the fishermen for whom the discard ban already applies, on the other hand, show significantly lower rates.
“The Ices data show that discard behavior has hardly changed,” says the director of the Thünen Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries, Christopher Zimmermann, who is also a member of the Ices. For him, the discard ban has so far been a toothless paper tiger. “For this fundamental rule change, politicians have failed to create control mechanisms that are legally secure and allow fishermen who violate them to be sanctioned.” In addition, changing controls would protect honest fishermen.
The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), which controls the discard ban on the German side, declares that no violations have been identified and punished so far. Two procedures are currently being examined, the BLE announced on request.
In addition to checking the logbook entries, inspectors are also on board to analyze the catch. The data from the Ices on eastern cod tended to match the observations made by the BLE inspectors on board, the BLE announced. But that is precisely where the problem lies. These observations are not legally secure as samples. As long as the logbook entries show lower by-catches, the authorities’ hands are tied.
The German Fisheries Association rejects the accusation that fishermen dump bycatch overboard after they have been caught for decades. “We assume that the fishermen will comply with the law,” assures association spokesman Claus Ubl. By-catches mean a considerable expense that every fisherman actually wants to avoid. Because they would have to be sorted out and documented on land. “If selective networks work, they will be used.”
Researchers like Zimmermann are calling for stricter regulations to ensure compliance with the discard ban. One possibility would be video cameras on board that record the catches. Above all, however, the burden of proof must be reversed: fishermen who, for example, use cameras to prove that they are adhering to the rules, could receive a quota supplement equal to the average number of discards. For everyone else, the quota would be reduced accordingly, according to the researcher’s proposal.
Another solution, at least for the cod in the North Sea, could bring the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sustainability seal. If a certified group of fishermen “blatantly” disregards an important rule such as the discard ban, they must lose the seal, Zimmermann recently told the “taz”.
The difficulty in providing evidence is now also known at EU level, according to the BLE. So by mid-2019, minimum requirements are to be drawn up on a technical level, such as what remote monitoring using cameras and sensors can look like. Then it must be decided at political level whether the EU will require remote monitoring for certain vehicle groups.
Manageable and inexpensive alternatives for selective nets with larger openings on the underside are now available. For example, the Thünen Institute has developed so-called flexnets with which flatfish bycatch in the Baltic cod fishery can be reduced by up to 80 percent. These nets use the natural behavior of the fish species.
In preliminary tests, the fishery biologists had observed with underwater cameras that the cod swim in the middle of the net, but the flatfish seek contact with the bottom. They then cut a hole in the lower rear area of the net tunnel – so that the flatfish could escape to freedom. Even cod that were too small – so-called undersized – could now escape more easily because the flatfish no longer blocked the mesh in the collection bag.
Paris (AP) – In the dispute over the catch of scallops in the English Channel, British and French fishermen have not been able to agree for the time being. A meeting of both sides in Paris on Friday was unsuccessful, reported British and French media on Saturday night.
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The discussions were not broken off, said the director of the French Fisheries Committee, Hubert Carré. A spokeswoman for the British Fisheries Authority assumed that there would be further talks in the coming week. “We’re making progress,” she said. “Negotiations continue and we look at the next steps.”
French and British fishermen had had a violent argument on the high seas in the English Channel last week. The French tried to deter competitors from Great Britain from catching scallops off the Normandy coast. British media spoke of a “scallop war”.
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The reason for the conflict, which has been smoldering for years, is that French fishermen observe a legally prescribed closed season for scallops between May and October. This ban does not apply to British fishermen. They insist on their right to work off the French coast.
According to the French authorities, there had been agreements between the two sides in previous years. At a meeting on Wednesday in London, there had been progress, according to the French Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Travert. British fishermen agreed not to enter the Seine Bay for the time being, but assumed that the conflict would be resolved on Friday.
Sassnitz (dpa) – Activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace sank large granite blocks in the Adlergrund marine reserve east of Rügen on Monday.
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With the natural stones weighing up to a ton, they want to prevent fishermen from “plowing through” the seabed with bottom trawls – even if this is legal, as the organization announced. Species-rich stone reefs and mussel beds were endangered by bottom trawls.
According to a spokeswoman, the Federal Waterways and Shipping Office in Stralsund is examining the action that began over the weekend. It was a more complex situation, which is why the examination could take a while, she said on Monday. The shipping had already been informed about the sinking of stones in the area. According to Greenpeace, the stones are not a threat to ships, they are too deep for that. According to Greenpeace, there was no intervention by the authorities until noon on Monday. Greenpeace throws the stones in the exclusive economic zone into the water. That is why federal authorities are responsible.
From the point of view of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Fisheries Association, the action is illegal. “This is vigilante justice,” criticized chairman Michael Schütt. So far, around 50 boulders have been sunk, said a Greenpeace spokesman for the German press agency. With 150 to 200 rocks, the Adlergrund nature reserve can be completely protected from bottom trawling.
According to Greenpeace, Germany designated almost half of its marine areas as protection zones in 2007. The plans for a ban on bottom-destroying fishing in the Adlergrund conservation area have long been completed. However, there is a lack of political will to implement them, denounces Greenpeace.
More than 200 dead porpoises were found on the Baltic Sea coast in 2018 – the second highest number in almost 20 years. The species is threatened with extinction.
203 dead porpoises were found on the German Baltic coast last year. In Schleswig-Holstein 134 animals died, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 69.
This emerges from a written request from the green member of the Bundestag Steffi Lemke, on which the “taz” first reported. “Harbor porpoises in the German Baltic Sea are still threatened with extinction,” said Lemke about the figures reported by the Federal Environment Ministry.
Second highest number in 2018
According to a list by the ministry, in which the dead finds have been recorded since 2000, the number from 2018 was the second highest recorded so far. Only in 2016 were more dead porpoises discovered in the Baltic Sea (221). “The alarming increase in the number of dead harbor porpoises makes it clear that we finally need effective protected areas,” Lemke demanded. There are currently no rules for fishing and industrial use in the protected areas. “The protected areas are so far only on paper,” criticized the MP.
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In response to the request, the Ministry of the Environment in Berlin emphasized that the federal government was strongly committed to protecting whales. This includes in particular the further development of warning devices to keep harbor porpoises out of gill nets.
Darmstadt (dpa) – Fish contains important nutrients for the human body. According to the Federal Center for Nutrition, fish contain, for example, easily digestible proteins, essential omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.
Salmon, herring and trout have a high content of fatty acids, which are good for the heart, brain and immune system. Sea fish would also make a significant contribution to the iodine supply.
Eckernförde (dpa) – environmentalists have salvaged three so-called ghost nets from the Baltic Sea off Eckernförde this week. “According to estimates, 5000 to 10,000 fishing nets or power supplies land in the Baltic Sea alone every year,” said marine biologist Gabriele Dederer of the dpa.