It is not too late, yet!

What YOU can do to help the Baltic Sea to recover:


• Eat non-threatened fish. Download WWF's Fishing Guide.


• Put pressure on your local politicians regarding the Baltic Sea environment. Ask questions and write letters to the press and drive on - not least if you live in a coastal municipality.


• Wash with eco-labeled and phosphate-free detergents.


• Use less disposable cutlery, plates and grill, and throw garbage on the environment station to hold nature clean.


• Empty hull toilet and waste water on port reception stations instead of into the sea.
Choose eco-friendly vehicles and fuels on land and at sea.


• Do not use toxic paints on the boat and feel free to use hull washing.


• Replace the boat's old two-stroke engine with a four-stroke.
Use environmentally friendly cleaning products, toiletries and other liquids.


• Provide containers and leftover products for recycling.


Source: The World Wide Fund for Nature,  WWF


The Baltic sea holds a unique ecosystem with an amazing animal and plant life. Still, it is an ocean in crisis. The marine environment is very sensitive and affected by everything that happens in and around the sea. Partly by eutrophication and overfishing but also through our own actions.
 


The sea can be saved


It was a long time ago there was as good a position to save the Baltic Sea.Recently we have seen a lot of positive trends. Fish stocks are slowly beginning to recover, and the concentrations of the nutrient substances in the water reduces, to name a few. State is hopeful - but the future of the Baltic balanced on a knife edge. Without such coordination can progress easily lost.
 


Together we can save the Baltic Sea


From 1 July 2010 and two years Sweden holds the presidency of the Helsinki Convention for the Baltic Sea - HELCOM. It is an opportunity for the Swedish government to raise the Baltic issue internationally. It needs to be placed in a larger context and in the longer term.
 


To make sense of the problems of the marine environment requires that the elected representatives of the nine Baltic Sea countries do what they promised. During the Swedish Presidency of HELCOM is the primary task of getting member countries to translate pledges into concrete actions.



An integrated ocean management are needed, in order to stand over various industries and countries' interests. EU agriculture and fisheries policies must also change if we are able to overcome the problems that exist.