Fishingport for the future

The fish stocks in Baltic Sea are declining, mainly due to unstainable fishing practice with large catches with low value.

Alas, only 40% of Swedish catches are used for human consumption while the majority is used to produce fishmeal for salmon production.

Furthermore, there is a societal ambition to exchange parts of the protein intake from meat with vegetables and seafood.

Thus, there is a need to explore new and sustainable ways to produce value-adding seafood through higher resource utilization as well as including new aquatic resources.

This creates new challenges for fishing ports around the Baltic Sea as this type of fishery need access to landing ports and processing industry.

Simrishamn Municipality wants to develop a fishing port centered around sustainable catches and circular raw material flows.

To achieve this shift, there is a need to create more value from current resources as well as to introduce novel processes and products, and to recognize the environmental merits of such changes.

This project aims at exploring how the port of Simrishamn can facilitate the shift through mapping out present and future networks of actors, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

Moreover, the projects will conduct analyses of operations in the port and their related resource flows, prioritize among development projects, identify knowledge gaps, and needs for research. In collaboration, the involved actors finally establish action plans for further implementation projects.