We humans have upset the balance in the Baltic Sea. Now the Swedish government has taken on the task of restoring the ecosystem – by shooting more seals and cormorants.
But are seals really responsible for the decline in herring and pike, and are cormorants eating all the perch? We join in as a few cormorants are dissected and the contents of their stomachs reveal something completely different.
How should ecosystem-based marine management actually be conducted?
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