Deep Sea Reporter examines bottom trawling in marine protected areas – part two. As a national park, Kosterhavet is covered by Sweden's strongest nature conservation laws. On paper. In practice, extensive bottom trawling for shrimp is taking place, a fishing method that is considered one of the most destructive in the world.
Christopher Andersen and his diving buddies at Strömstad's sports diving club have found loads of the invasive sea squirt, also called ‘sea spit,’ in parts of the Koster Sea at the Swedish West coast, where they did surveys for the species just a year ago.
