ls in the Baltic Sea ecosystem to be utilized for conservation and management actions, 3) to create risk analysis models by combining existing data (e.g. on rate of population increase) and the new information produced in the project, to be used as tools in sustainable management of seals, and 4) to disseminate up-to-date information on seal-fishery conflict to interest groups, and 5) to recommend ways to mitigate the seal-fishery conflict. By its various actions concentrating on the coastal Baltic waters, the project will in general increase environmental awareness of decision makers, other stakeholders and citizens in the Central Baltic Programme area and especially in the project’s target area of the archipelago and islands.