FARNET
Fisheries Areas Network

Finland

  • Finland - 10 FLAGs - 9.5 M€

    15/12/2021
    - Country Factsheet
    The 10 Finnish FLAGs focus on boosting and optimising activities throughout the entire value chain; promoting innovation across sectoral boundaries, creating new ways of thinking and doing business, while also ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources; and encouraging cooperation.
  • Promoting underused fish species and improving migrants´ integration

    15/11/2021
    - Good Practice Project
    Kustaktionsgruppen i Österbotten (Pohjanmaan kalatalousryhmä) tuki hanketta, jossa paikalliset asukkaat ja maahanmuuttajat kehittivät alikäytettyihin kalalajeihin perustuvia innovatiivisia ruokaohjeita. Sen tuloksena vähempiarvoisina pidettyjen kalojen kulutus kasvoi, maahanmuuttajien kotoutuminen edistyi ja kulttuurinen vuorovaikutus heidän kanssaan lisääntyi.
  • Indoor aquaponics farm development

    28/09/2021
    - Good Practice Short Story
    A Finnish FLAG supported a research project to create a business model based on indoor aquaponic farming. This innovative concept reduces water use by 85% and produces both fish and vegetables with near zero-waste discharge.
  • Recruiting young people to train with experienced fishers

    29/06/2021
    - Good Practice Project
    Lapin kalatalouden toimintaryhmä on rahoittanut kalastajien rekrytointi- ja koulutushanketta Lokan ja Porttipahdan tekoaltaiden ympäristön ikääntyvän ammattikunnan nuorentamiseksi. Hankkeen tuloksena 14 nuorta kalastajaa on aloittanut toimintansa. Joukossa on sekä miehiä että naisia.
  • Mobile App for reporting catch data

    18/01/2021
    - Good Practice Project
    Itä-Suomen kalatalousryhmä on tukenut saalistietojen ilmoittamiseen tarkoitetun mobiilisovelluksen kehittämistä suomalaisille sisävesikalastajille. Ammattikorkeakoulun kehittämä sovellus, joka otettiin käyttöön toukokuussa 2020, parantaa saalistietojen keruuta ja jäljitettävyyttä koko kalastuksen arvoketjussa.
  • Seals and Cormorants in the Baltic: Addressing a common environmental challenge

    28/10/2020
    - Basic page
    A large-scale cooperation project between Baltic FLAGs has increased knowledge on the impact the growing seal and cormorant populations are having on small-scale coastal fisheries in the region. Through this cooperation project, FLAGs have developed solutions for achieving the balanced management of marine resources.
  • Private fish processor investing in the FLAGs

    31/01/2020
    - Good Practice Short Story
    With their “Thanks to the Fisherman” campaign, one of Finland’s biggest fish processors, aims to raise approximately €100 000 for the FLAGs to support their local fishermen
  • Seeking information about lampara nets and purse seines

    14/01/2020
    - Cooperation Idea
    Bothnian Sea and Lake Pyhajarvi FLAG is looking for other European FLAGs interested in sharing experience in using other types of  gear, which can respond to the dual challenges that seals and diminishing ice cover represent.  Experiences in the use of lampara nets and/or purse seines in coastal, and more specifically, shallow waters, under 20 metres in depth (mostly 5-12 metres) are of particular interest.
  • Minced fish from unwanted by-catch

    24/10/2019
    - Good Practice Short Story
    Local fishermen in Lapland, northern Finland, create a mincing facility to process unwanted by-catch into new marketable products such as fish fingers.
  • Umami processing methods add value to local fish

    21/06/2019
    - Good Practice Project
    Suomalainen kalastaja otti käyttöön japanilaisen umami-kypsytysmenetelmän, joka kiinnostaa Michelin-huippukokkeja .