Overfished, overheated and overfertilized: the Baltic Sea and its fish are at the brink. Many fish populations are currently doing so badly that they can no longer be fished at all.

Fish such as cod and herring, which once seemed endless, have now completely collapsed under the pressure of fishing, pollution and the climate crisis. Although the consequences are more visible and tangible than ever in the Baltic Sea, we seem to be stuck in old patterns: Fishing quotas set far above scientific advice and destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling not even banned in marine protected areas.  

But what kind of fishery do we actually want for the future? How do we face the crisis in which the Baltic Sea, fish and fisheries find themselves? And is there also an opportunity in the crisis? We will discuss these and other questions with representatives from politics, fisheries, science and NGOs on 6th of October 2022 in Kiel. 

On the panel was: 

Wolfgang Albrecht, Chairman of the Fisheries Protection Association of Schleswig-Holstein 

Valeska Diemel, fisheries expert at the BUND marine protection office   

Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann, Head of Department "Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Management" at the University of Hamburg  

Swantje Nilsson, Head of Department "EU Policy, International Cooperation and Fisheries" at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (requested) 

moderated by Dörthe Eickelberg, freelance moderator and actress.  

The sculpture was created by the artist Jared Bartz for this action and can be visited from October 3 to 6, as well as on the evening of the discussion in the gallery.