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Rewilding Raja Ampat - Bringing Back Nature
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Over the past year, the fishing quota for herring in the central Baltic Sea has doubled, temperatures have risen, and oxygen levels in the sea have dropped further. Yet, despite these grim reports, several breakthroughs were achieved during the year. Here are five advances for the ocean in 2024 that you might have missed….
Text: Lina Mattsson
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Like migratory birds, marine life retreats during the cold and dark season. But there are those that linger when the sea slows down.
At Christmas time, when old folklore is at its most present, in our reverent waiting for Father Christmas, there is actually another world with fabulous life forms. Very close to us.
Deep Sea Reporter wishes a Merry Christmas from a jetty in December….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
On Christmas Day 2004, our reporter and underwater film-maker Tobias Dahlin was with his family in Khao Lak, Thailand. This is his personal account of what happened then….
Text: Tobias Dahlin
Private Photos: Tobias Dahlin
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) slÃ¥r i en ny rapport fast att om vi vill rädda hajar, rockor och havsmöss i vÃ¥rt hav, mÃ¥ste vi fÃ¥ bukt med överfisket och bifÃ¥ngsterna….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo cover picture: Guido Leurs
Photo: Ana Lúcia Furtado Soares, Sara Thiebaud
Grafics: IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Save Our Seas Foundation
THEMES
warmer sea
The sea gets warmer - the species die. It's not just coral reefs and fish that are threatened as the oceans warm - it's all life. Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs...
plastics in the sea
Plastics has been a revolutionary good product in many areas, but equally bad when it pollutes both our nature and our human body. Today, microplastics are found pretty much everywhere on our planet. In the air, in our food, in our bodies, in the sea...
the outlaw ocean project
The Chinese fishing fleet is a great power on the sea. Fishing far out to sea where no country's laws reach, they are catching more fish than any other nation right now. And it comes at a terrible human cost...
ocean devotion
Many of us love the sea, the beach, the water and swimming in the waves, but there are those who care a little more than the rest of us. Those who, with commitment and passion...
the real rulers of the sea
The ocean's resources belong to all citizens. We want healthy seas, full of fish and shellfish. So how could the EU's seas be fished to the brink of ecological collapse? The overfishing is not an accident...
seal hunting
In an overfished sea, the seals have begun to move towards the coasts to look for food. Here they encroach on people's territory. From being nearly extirpated in the early 1980s...
LATEST NEWS
2025-01-03
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Maria Ximena/AP/TT
2024-11-29
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Elaine Thompson/AP/TT
2024-11-26
Text: Malcolm Dixelius
Graphics: Marine Conservation Institute
Photo: Johan Candert
2024-11-19
Text: Malcolm Dixelius, islander, filmmaker
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti, Malcolm Dixelius
Map: Naturvårdsverket
2024-10-31
Text: Cornelia Mikaelsson / TT
Foto: Alberto Saiz/AP/TT
2024-10-22
Text: Cecilia Klintö/TT
Photo: David Carmelet, Bo Johannesson, Daria Shipilina
2024-10-17
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Simon Stanford
Editorials/Debate
I swim past the contours of two large gun barrels but they are almost completely covered in glassfish. I have never seen such a large school before. We swim on and slowly sink along the hull of the USS Saratoga. It’s 52 metres to the bottom….
Text and Photo: Johan Candert
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26 November, 2024
2024-11-26
I write this as COP 16, the UN summit meeting on biodiversity,…
Text: Malcolm Dixelius
Graphics: Marine Conservation Institute
Photo: Johan Candert
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19 November, 2024
2024-11-19
Can you feel anything but happiness, if you live on an island…
Text: Malcolm Dixelius, islander, filmmaker
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti, Malcolm Dixelius
Map: Naturvårdsverket
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08 March, 2024
2024-03-08
The conflicts within Swedish fishing are very fierce. Small-scale coastal fishermen on…
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Ida Ã…kesson/SPA
Editors' Choice
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Documentary filmmaker Johan Candert is at Bikini Atoll, diving into a strange sea. 80 years ago, the US detonated 23 nuclear bombs here, wiping out all life. But what Johan sees is a sea that is recovering. Life is coming back….
Reportage: Johan Candert
10:42
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
Graphics: Helena Fredriksson
3:18
Erlendur Bogason considers Eyafjör∂ur in northern Iceland to be his backyard. He has dived here for over 25 years and has not just become familiar with the fjord and its inhabitants but has made some surprising fish friends.  The close contact that Erlendur has with Stephanie, the Wolffish and the other residents of this marine protected area is astonishing. It gives us a whole new insight into the complexity of fish behaviour and how they interact.  …
Reportage/editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, john Jonsson, Simon Stanford
A research expedition in the North Atlantic has found several groups of sperm whales along with many other whale species in an area where Norway wants to conduct deep-sea mining….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Ã…slund/Greenpeace
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
Fishing
Humanity has always sourced food from the sea. And fishing is an ancient way of doing so that can be traced back to the early Stone Age around 40,000 years ago. In the last 100 years, fish stocks have dramatically declined in the Western Sea and the Baltic Sea. And in most cases, overfishing is considered to be the major cause. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Lena Scherman, Kimmo Hagman
Fishing for herring and sprat in the central Baltic Sea can increase by 139 percent, according to ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which today published its recommendations to the EU for fishing in 2025….
Text: Peter Löfgren
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In a report from 2020, published by BalticSea2020, the authors believe that large-scale fishing in the Baltic Sea is neither economically nor financially profitable for the state. On the contrary, it costs us all big money….
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiranson
The EU’s highest court rules that the Council of Ministers breaks the law when it decides on overfishing of “target species”, stocks that fishing is directly aimed at. But at the same time, the court gives the ministers the right to “flexibility” in terms of bycatch….
Text: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Göran Elhmé, Leif Eiranson
Climate and Environment
Our planet relies on the oceans as climate regulators. At the same time, the effects of our emissions are most evident in the oceans. Today, eutrophication, climate change, ocean acidification, and invasive species are some of the challenges the oceans face. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford
10:42
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
Graphics: Helena Fredriksson
3:29
They have just arrived in what they believe and hope is paradise. Raja Ampat is located in the centre of what is known as the ‘coral triangle’, which stretches from the Philippines down to Malaysia, Indonesia and over to East Timor….
Reportage: Johan Candert, Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Göran Ehlmé
The island paradise of Raja Ampat is one of the last outposts of the Indonesian archipelago. A remote group of islands with lush white beaches surrounded by turquoise waters, a unique place characterised by its biodiversity. But even here, nature is not left alone by the human footprint. The increasing amount of rubbish in the water is becoming a growing problem with multiple bottoms. …
Text och Foto: Louise Candert
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a unique and sensitive sea where organisms live on the edge of what they can tolerate due to the low salinity. It has also been called the world’s most polluted inland sea due to eutrophication and the chemical cocktail caused by human activities….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Foto: Johan Candert, Kimmo Hagman, Simon Stanford
03:03
For an extended period, the cod population in the Baltic Sea has been facing severe challenges. Overfishing and environmental issues have taken a toll on their well-being, causing a decline in their health. Consequently, many of them have become thin, emaciated, and susceptible to diseases. However, a pertinent question arises: What happens when wild cod are given the opportunity to recuperate? …
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford, Daniel Hager
UW-Photo: Johan Candert
Edit by: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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The Baltic Sea is grappling with a severe ecological crisis primarily marked by oxygen depletion, leading to extensive dead zones. Human activities, including industrial processes and nutrient-rich agricultural runoff, have fueled the growth of algae, contributing to oxygen-starved conditions. These anoxic zones threaten marine life, disrupting ecosystems and fisheries. …
reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
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Never before have there been so many different chemicals in our world. The production of plastics, pesticides and not least pharmaceuticals has created a chemical cloud around us…
Report: Martin Widman
Photo: Leif Eiranson and Robert Westerberg
Archive: Pond5
International
Dive into the intricate ecosystems of the world’s oceans, their lawless stretches, and the extremities that teem with life, all crucial to our existence and well-being….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford, Johan Candert
China uses thousands of workers from the Hermit Kingdom,
in violation of U.N. sanctions and U.S. law. Many at the plants recounted rampant sexual abuse….
Text: Ian Urbina
Photo/Video: Douyin, The Outlaw Ocean Project, Living in North Korea
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An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China’s growth and control overfishing across most of the high seas….
Written by: Ian Urbina, Ben Blankenship
Narrated by: Ian Urbina
Videographers: Ben Blankenship, James Glancy, Youenn Kerdavid
Produced & Edited by: Ben Blankenship
Co-Producers: Raphaela Morais, Adrienne Urbina
Motion Grephics: Drew Evans
Archivists/Researchers: Chloe Darnaus, Sonia Szczesna
Additional Footage provided courtesy of: GreenPeace International, Environmental Justice Foundation, ABC News Australia, CICC, CGTN, Natural History New Zealand Limited, Kinolibrary, Bloomberg originals, U.S. Navy, COSCO Shipping, Puerto de Chancay, Prefectura Naval Argentina, Center for Strategic & International Studies, British Pathé
The Great Barrier Reef is larger than Finland, and it is still bursting with life. But climate change poses several kinds of threats to the future of coral reefs…
Text: Ulrika Eriksson
Photo: Matt Curnock, Katerina Katopis, Jordan Robins/Ocean Image Bank, Emma Kennedy
Research
Fish behavior, toxic algae, and the role of the sea in climate. These are some of the topics that marine research can address. Diverse subjects, but with a common goal: to better understand what happens beneath the surface….
Text: Lina mattsson
Foto: Hans Berggren, Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
4:57
There have been rumours of large mysterious jelly balls floating around in the sea. For a long time, they have puzzled scientists. From northern Norway to the Mediterranean, around 100 records have been made since 1985. And three of these in Sweden. Our underwater photographer Tobias Dahlin has now made a fourth find, in the Gullmarsfjord in Bohuslän on the Swedish west coast, and he had his camera with him. We also meet Halldis Ringvold, a Norwegian marine biologist, who in 2021 revealed what’s really hidden inside the meter-long wondrous balls….
Reportage: Tobias Dahlin
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Fish act as a kind of guide, finding the prey and ‘pointing out’ the location to the octopus, which can use its flexible arms to catch the hidden prey….
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Ronja Arnold-Larsen
UW photo: Dr Eduardo Sampaio Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
They are everywhere, in the sea and on land, in animals and plants and in the human body.
Twenty years since the term ‘microplastics’ was defined in a scientific paper; the prestigious publication Science has taken on the task of examining where we are today and how we can tackle the growing problems caused by microplastics.
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Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
