Seafood exports from Norway plummeted by a record amount, down by more than NOK 2 billion to NOK 12.1 billion in June, according to monthly...
Text: TT/News Agency
Photo: Gorm kallestad/NTB/TT
Fishing
The Icelandic government gives the go-ahead for whaling this year....
Tet: TT/News Agency
Photo: Benny F. Nielsen/Polfoto through AP/TT
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...
Text: Peter Löfgren
The UK's Blue Marine Foundation, a marine charity, is taking the UK to court for allowing overfishing in British waters. And above all, that it...
Text: Lena Scherman
The conflicts within Swedish fishing are very fierce. Small-scale coastal fishermen on the east and south coasts face a small number of giant trawlers from...
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Ida Åkesson/SPA
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...
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Lena Scherman, Kimmo Hagman
Ringed seal pups become homeless as the Baltic Sea's ice shrinks. Now it is being tested to build caves out of plastic and plywood to...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: Danny Gren, Yrkeshögskolan i Åbo, Johanna Hanno
Graphics: Anna-Lena Lindqvist/TT
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We asked Tero Härkönen, who has researched seals since the 1970s, three questions. Is it the seal's fault that the fish disappear? Is the seal...
reportage: Lena Scherman
Redigering/foto: Alexandre Gobatti
2:16
Seal populations rebound after hunting ban and environmental efforts, sparking debate between conservation needs and the impact on fishing. Dive into the story....
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Alexandre Gobatti
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Leif Eiransson, Simon Stanford, Anders Kronborg, Lunds Universitet
In 2023, relatively many lobsters were caught in the Swedish and Norwegian waters, but this was not because the number of lobsters has increased, on...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christopher Andersen
Deep Sea's attention-grabbing film "The Power of the Sea" has set the debate about large-scale fishing in the Baltic Sea in high gear. In the...
Text: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Simon Stanford
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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...
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiranson
Attempts to change fishing rules after the fact are rejected by the EU Parliament. Now L wants the government to "step up" the protection of...
Text: Wiktor Nummelin/TT
Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT
Axel Wenblad, is former director general at the Swedish Fisheries Agency. He was interviewed in Peter Löfgren's latest documentary "Power over the sea". After the...
Tet: Axel Wenblad f.d. generaldirektör Fiskeriverket
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In Brussels there are at least 30,000 lobbyists to influence the political decisions. Many of them work for the fishing industry, to ensure that the...
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...
Text: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Göran Elhmé, Leif Eiranson
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All citizens want fish-rich, healthy seas. The EU is governed democratically. So why are the EU's seas fished out and on the brink of ecological...
Director: Peter Löfgren
Editor: Helena Fredriksson
Cinematographer: Leif Eiransson
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EU fisheries ministers exclude the public. The countries' mutual positions are kept secret. We citizens are not allowed to influence the decisions that are decisive...
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiranson
Archive: European Union
Three quarters of the world's industrial fishing vessels are "dark", they are not publicly tracked. This is shown by a new study, published in Nature,...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Simon Stanford
The Swedish government is open to allowing limited small-scale eel fishing. It may also be possible to transfer eel fishing permits to the next generation,...
text: TT Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Emil Langvad/TT
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The EU fisheries ministers have in a compromise agreed on this years herring fishing in the Baltic Sea next year. As usual, we can continue...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Animation: Natalia Quintana
A continued limited eel fishery in the Baltic Sea remains alive since the fisheries ministers of the EU countries struggled through the night to reach...
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrå
Photo: Wiktor Nummelin/TT
UW-Photo: Tobias Dahlin
Norway has decided to stop cross-border fishing in the Skagerrak from the turn of the year, the government writes in a press release....
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Cornelius Poppe/NTB/TT
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The fish are running out, the herring and the baltic herring are threatened and the cod is almost completely gone. When there is a competition...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti