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The implementation of the project helps to achieve the goals by carrying out activities in Estonia LIFE Baltic Sturgeon

Bringing back the extinct sturgeon into the North-Eastern Baltic Sea

LIFE Baltic Sturgeon

LIFE21-NAT-EE-101074368

Project duration: September 2022 - December 2027

Budget: € 1 128 010,91 

Co-funded by EU LIFE programme, Ministry of Environment, Environmental Investment Centre, project implementers.

 

Implementers:

Riigimetsa Majandamise Keskus / Forest Management Centre of Estonia

Eesti Loodushoiu Keskus / Wildlife Estonia

Luonnonvarakeskus / Natural Resources Institute Finland

 

The work of re-establishing the viable self-sustaining Baltic sturgeon population in Estonia is gaining momentum and volume. Wildlife Estonia, Forest management Centre of Estonia and Institute Natural Resources Finland will carry out the project "Restoration of the Baltic Sea sturgeon population in Estonian waters" with the acronyme LIFE Baltic Sturgeon for five years. The main task is to release approximately 100,000 young sturgeons in the Narva and Pärnu rivers every year. Stocking material will be obtained from Germany from the breedstock managed by the Aquaculture and Fisheries Research Center of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The fate of different sturgeon species is under special attention in Europe. The Baltic Sea Marine Environment Protection Commission (also the Helsinki Commission and HELCOM), which unites the countries of the Baltic Sea, has adopted an action plan for the protection of Baltic Sea sturgeon in 2019, which sets the goal of restoring the Atlantic sturgeon population in the Baltic Sea. The implementation of the project helps to achieve the goals by carrying out activities in Estonia.

WILDLIFE ESTONIA
NGO Wildlife Estonia is established in 2000. Our aim is to protect rivers and other aquatic habitats. We care about the nature, biodiversity and fish in particular.

HABITATS
Springs, rivers and lakes are our common treasure. The more natural status they have the more precious they are. 

COMPETENCE
Successful application and implementation of river restoration and fish population status improvement projects. Scientific ichthyology studies with traditional and modern bio-telemetric methods. 

CONTACTS
Eesti Loodushoiu Keskus, registration 80124928,
Address: Veski 4, 51005 Tartu, ESTONIA 
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Contact phone (+372) 51 76886

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LIFE Baltic Sturgeon

Bringing back the extinct sturgeon into the North-Eastern Baltic Sea LIFE Baltic Sturgeon LIFE21-NAT-EE-101074368 Project duration: September 2022 - December 2027 Budget:  € 1 128 010,91  Co-funded by EU LIFE programme, Ministry of Environment, Environmental Investment Centre, project implementers   Implementers: Riigimetsa Majandamise Keskus / Forest Management Centre of Estonia Eesti Loodushoiu Keskus / Wildlife Estonia Luonnonvarakeskus / Natural Resources Institute Finland   The work of re-establishing the viable self-sustaining Baltic sturgeon population in Estonia is gaining momentum and volume

LIFE Baltic Sturgeon

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