Marine protected areas

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
Can you feel anything but happiness, if you live on an island in the Baltic Sea and realize that a major chunk of the neighboring...
Text: Malcolm Dixelius, islander, filmmaker
Photo: Alexandre Gobatti, Malcolm Dixelius
Map: Naturvårdsverket
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has published this year's State of the Ocean Report, which describes...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Johan Candert
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
An investigation has been handed over to Rural Affairs Minister Peter Kullgren (KD) with proposals for a general ban on bottom trawling in protected sea...
Text: Niklas Svahn/TT
Photo: Berit Roald
Mattias Sköld is a researcher at SLU Aqua in Lysekil. He has been involved in filming the seabed in marine protected areas, including in Bratten,...
REPORTAGE: LENA SCHERMAN
UW-PHOTO: SLU AQUA/LYSEKIL
PHOTO: LEIF EIRANSSON
SLU Aqua in Lysekil has for several years filmed bottoms in three different marine protection areas. Bratten is a Natura 2000 area far out to...
REPORTAGE: LENA SCHERMAN
PHOTO: LEIF EIRANSSON
UW PHOTO: SLU AQUA LYSEKIL
GRAPHICS: DANIEL HAGER
Bottom trawling is to be banned and phased out in all marine protected areas by 2030. The proposal is included in the European Commission's new...
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo:Michael Probst/AP/TT
It’s now been scientifically proven. If you stop fishing, the number of fish increases! A new report from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)...
Text: Peter Löfgren
Graphics: Daniel Hager
Photo: Kimmo Hagman
Öresund is a unique marine environment. In the waters between Denmark and Skåne, the sweet and oxygen-poor waters of the Baltic Sea meet the salty...
Report: Marko T. Wramén
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