Factual information and a clear demeanour - the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsche Nordseeküste e.V. (SDN) will meet with its members on 29 August in Büsum at 1 p.m. and will also address the real effects and prospects of the German Coastal and shrimp fishing.
German North Sea coast
"It is a truism and may therefore sound surprising, but without sustainable coastal fishing, our North Sea, with all its rampant industrial utilisation, has little chance of remaining at least a refuge close to nature!" explains Mayor Gerd-Christian Wagner, Chairman of the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsche Nordseeküste e.V. (SDN). "Because with the impending disappearance of the family businesses, an expert group would disappear that would directly and locally notice negative changes in the marine and Wadden Sea environment not only selectively, like research, but on a daily basis and over a large area, and would probably also publicise them." But if they were to give up, large companies with no regional roots would move in and probably fish much more intensively and cause enormous damage to nature.
"The real threat to the North Sea does not come from shrimp fishing," adds his deputy, captain and sea pilot Ulrich Birstein, "but from pollutant inputs, global warming, plastic waste, rotten egg fishing, eutrophication, sand extraction, military use, oil and gas extraction, offshore wind farms, pipelines, cables, dumping of dredged material, accident risks and, more recently, CCS."
To provide further factual clarification, the SDN has invited Dr Gerd Kraus from the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries to present the latest information on the topic at the SDN members' meeting on Friday, 29 August 2025 from 14:30 at the Watt'n Hus, Südstrand 11, 25761 Büsum. Research results on environmental influences of shrimp fishing in the North Sea and thus return to objectivity in the general debate.
Other interested parties are cordially invited to join us! For capacity reasons, however, please inform [email protected] in advance of your participation and the number of people attending.
Background
The Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsche Nordseeküste e.V. (SDN) is a supra-regional and non-profit environmental protection umbrella organisation that was founded in 1973 in response to extensive pollution of the North Sea. Since then, the organisation has been committed to the protection of the North Sea as a living, economic and natural environment in a professional and cross-party manner. It serves around 200 municipalities, administrative districts, nature conservation organisations, institutes, associations and individual members as a mouthpiece for the public as well as the ministerial administrations and parliaments of the federal government and the four North Sea coastal states. The common goal is to protect the unique features and beauty of the North Sea, the Wadden Sea and the neighbouring coastline from harmful human intervention and to find solutions to North Sea conservation problems.
Some of the measures of recent decades in which the SDN has represented the interests of the coast as a lobby organisation and which are now considered to have been largely dealt with are the dumping of dilute acid, waste and sewage sludge, the emergency towing concept, antifouling, air monitoring, ballast water, tank cleaning, MARPOL I to IV and the acquisition of modern emergency tugs for the North Sea and Baltic Sea, as is currently the case for the Lower Elbe.
The SDN is a member of KIMO International: http://www.kimointernational.org
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