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The harbor seal population is declining – due to fish scarcity

Researchers have now established that the harbor seals in the Kosterhavet area are becoming increasingly scarce. Last year, only half of the females gave birth...

Text: Lina Mattsson

Photo: Daire Carroll/Göteborgs Universitet, Alexandre Gobatti/DSR

West coast

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Seal hunting! Part 5 – But the harbor seals have become fewer – and no one really knows why

We accompanied seal researchers from the University of Gothenburg, to Koster. In the archipelago on the Swedish west coast. Koster is one of the places...

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Photo/Editing: Alexandre Ramos Gobatti

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Part 3 The fish is gone, but is it the seal’s fault?

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

Fishing

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New opportunities for seal hunting

The government makes it possible to introduce licence hunting for both grey seals and humpback seals. "This is about protecting fish stocks and coastal fishing,"...

Text: Tea Oscarsson/TT

Photo: Lars Pehrson/TT

Climate and Environment

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The harbor seal population is declining – due to fish scarcity

Seal hunting! Part 5 – But the harbor seals have become fewer – and no one really knows why

Part 3 The fish is gone, but is it the seal’s fault?

New opportunities for seal hunting

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