Time: 26.11.2024 starting at 12:00 noon
Venue: Radisson Collection Hotel (Rävala pst 3, Tallinn), hall Tallinn or online via Worksup.
Fisheries Information Centre of the Estonian Marine Institute of the University of Tartu
will hold a hybrid seminar
"The impact of cormorants on fisheries and ecosystems"
on 26 November 2024 starting at 12 noon at the Radisson Collection Hotel in Tallinn and online via Worksup.
The seminar will focus on scientists' reviews of the impact of cormorants on marine and freshwater fish and the wider ecosystem.
The seminar is targeted at coastal fishermen, fishery entrepreneurs, ornithologists, scientists, representatives of the sector's authorities – all those with an interest in the subject.
Participation on-site is by invitation only, but the seminar can also be followed online via Worksup.
The working languages of the seminar will be Estonian and English.
Simultaneous interpreting will be provided for participants between English and Estonian.
Agenda
11.30 Registration and welcome coffee (on-site)
12.00–12.15 Opening remarks
12.15–13.45 Seminar presentations
• Cormorant diet in the Lake Võrtsjärv and the Lake Peipsi – Doris Pajumäe, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• New data on the feeding of cormorants on the Estonian coast – Lauri Saks, University of Tartu
• How cormorant predation reduces the ecological quality of rivers – PD Dr Carola Winkelmann, University of Koblenz
13.45–14.45 Lunch break
14.45–16.15 Seminar presentations
• New documentation of the effect of cormorant predation on coastal fish, the present state of the knowledge in relation to cormorants and freshwater fish – Niels Thorvald Jepsen, Senior Researcher from Technical University of Denmark
16.15 Panel discussion. Closing remarks
Minor amendments may occur in the agenda.
Further information:
The seminar arrangements costs will be covered by the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund.
