the baltic sea

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...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Johan Candert
In February, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management extended the trawling ban from four nautical miles to twelve nautical miles. The ban intends...
Text Linnett Andersen
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
A Swedish company has been authorised to investigate the possibility of extracting mineral nodules from the seabed in the Gulf of Bothnia. They are said...
Reportage: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tanja Holm, Tobias Dahlin, Ocean Archive, Sweco
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
I write this as COP 16, the UN summit meeting on biodiversity, has just ended in the Colombian coastal city of Cali. On a human...
Text: Malcolm Dixelius
Graphics: Marine Conservation Institute
Photo: Johan Candert
Several countries, including Sweden, have criticized Norway's plans for deep-sea mining. However, a Swedish company has now been granted permission to explore the possibilities of...
Reportage: Lina Mattson
Editor/graphics: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
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
I am now forbidden to fish for cod and the pike has disappeared from my bay. I'm looking for scapegoats. Who is responsible for the...
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Foto: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
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
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
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
The Swedish government is moving ahead with plans for two offshore wind farms, a project called "Västvind" in the North Sea and a project called...
Text: Niklas Svahn/TT Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
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
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
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
Leaner cods, guillemot, and seals. Sluggish and red-spotted salmon. Several of the Baltic Sea's large animals are being pressured by ill health and new environmental...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: MARY EVANS PICTURE/ROLAND JOHANSSON/TORBJÖRN JACOBSSON / TT, ROLAND JOHANSSON/TT, PAULA OLSON/AP/TT, STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/TT/NTB, HASSE HOLMBERG/TT
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
Starting Friday, two Swedish corvettes will patrol the Baltic Sea - as part of a major investment in the protection of critical underwater infrastructure....
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
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...
reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
NASA has identified several hundred marine dead zones around the world. A dead zone is an area in the ocean where the oxygen level is...
Reportage: Daniel Hager
Research: Loke Nyberg
Explore the dramatic journey of the Baltic Sea's seals from near extinction to recovery and the debates surrounding their resurgence....
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Johan Candert
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
Targeted fishing for herring and sturgeon can also continue in 2024. The EU countries have agreed on significantly larger catch quotas than what the European...
Text: Wiktor Nummelin/TT
Foto: Wiktor Nummelin/TT/Hasse Holmberg/TT
In recent years, the stickleback has increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea. According to an as yet unpublished study that Vetenskapsradion has taken part in,...
Text: TT/nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT
The New Economics Foundation think tank was able to show in a report already in 2019 that EU countries took 300,000 tons more fish into...
reportage: Daniel Hager, Alexandre Gobatti, Lena Scherman
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