A couple of weeks ago, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV) concluded in an investigation that two of the three seal species that inhabits Swedish waters are declining. The grey seal is increasing overall, but it has moved over to the Finnish side, the harbor seals are threatened by a total population crash, while the ringed seals have a stable population so far. Yet the government now wants to increase seal hunting to save the fish.
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 film, he got angry and wrote an open letter to Minister for Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren. This is the letter;
The jars of midsummer herring may start to feel passé, but the fact is that herring is a climate-smart raw material we could eat more of
Algae can eventually replace soybeans as a more environmentally friendly protein crop. In Bohuslän, green algae are grown for research purposes – and fertilized with wastewater from the herring and shrimp industry, reports SVT Nyheter
