overfishing

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Daniels story

Den tragiska berättelsen om en indonesisk sjöman och hans brutala resa ombord ett kinesiskt bläckfiskfartyg....

Directed by: Ben Blankenship, Ian Urbina

Narration: Ian Urbina

Edit: Ben Blankenship

Photo: Will N. Miller, Ed Ou, Ben Blankenship, Sikhami Denting

Motion Graphics: Drew Evans

Researchers: Ian Urbina, Joe Galvin, Susan Ryan, Daniel Murphy, Austin Brush, maya Martin, Jake Conley, Stephan Foxwell, marcella Boehler, Halie Brown, Molly Wiggins, Ben Blankenship, Raphaela Morais, Adrienne Urbina

International

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A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder

Den kinesiska fiskeflottan är en stormakt på havet. De fiskar långt ut till havs där inga länders lagar når och fiskar upp mer än någon...

Text: Ian Urbina/The Outlaw Ocean Project

Photo/Video: Ferdi Arnando, Ed Ou, Ben Blankenship, Jiebriel83, Jessica Reyes, Douyin, Desta Motor 143

International

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Scientific Advisory Body Recommend More than Doubled Fishing Quotas in the Baltic

Fishing for herring and sprat in the central Baltic Sea can increase by 139 percent, according to ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of...

Text: Peter Löfgren

Fishing

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British NGO is taking the UK to court for overfishing

The UK's Blue Marine Foundation, a marine charity, is taking the UK to court for allowing overfishing in British waters. And above all, that it...

Text: Lena Scherman

Fishing

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Polite small talk while the sea dies

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

Fishing

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Fish species in the Mekong river are threatened with extinction – says WWF

Overfishing and new hydroelectric dams are among the reasons why a fifth of the fish species in the Mekong River in Asia are threatened with...

Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrå

Foto: Zeb Hogan

Climate and Environment

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The west coast of Sweden

On Sweden's west coast lies the Western Sea with Sweden's saltiest water and the largest marine biodiversity. The Western Sea includes both Kattegat, Skagerrak, and...

Text: Lina Mattsson

Foto: Göran Ehlmé, Tobias Dahlin, Micke Tilja

West coast

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Seal hunting Part 6 – The importance of the seal in the sea

Since almost four years ago, we have license hunting on gray seals, since two years on harbor seals and protection hunts on ringed seals since...

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Foto: Hans Berggren, Johan Candert/DSR, Alexandre Gobatti/DSR, Kimmo Hagman/DSR,Göran Ehlmé/DSR, Simon Stanford/DSR, Tobias Dahlin/DSR, Ismaele Tortella

Redigering: Alexandre Gobatti

Other

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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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Lobster fishing threatened

In 2023, relatively many lobsters were caught in the Swedish and Norwegian waters, but this was not because the number of lobsters has increased, on...

Text: Lena Scherman

Photo: Christopher Andersen

Fishing West coast

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Open letter – to the Minister for Rural Affairs

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...

Tet: Axel Wenblad f.d. generaldirektör Fiskeriverket

Fishing

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“Fishing must be sustainable”

The EU's highest court rules that the Council of Ministers breaks the law when it decides on overfishing of "target species", stocks that fishing is...

Text: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Göran Elhmé, Leif Eiranson

Fishing

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The Real Rulers of the Sea

All citizens want fish-rich, healthy seas. The EU is governed democratically. So why are the EU's seas fished out and on the brink of ecological...

Director: Peter Löfgren

Editor: Helena Fredriksson

Cinematographer: Leif Eiransson

Fishing

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There is no fishing without fish. Period.

The ocean's resources belong to all citizens. We want healthy seas, full of fish and shellfish. So - how could fishing for cod in the...

Chronicler: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Leif Eiransson

Chronicles

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EU overfishing is decided behind closed doors

EU fisheries ministers exclude the public. The countries' mutual positions are kept secret. We citizens are not allowed to influence the decisions that are decisive...

Reportage: Peter Löfgren

Editing: Helena Fredriksson

Photo: Leif Eiranson

Archive: European Union

Fishing

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The fishing vessels secretly fish in our oceans

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

Fishing

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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

Other

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Part 2 Seal hunting in the north is a unique phenomenon

Sweden, Finland, and Norway conduct hunting for seals as trophy hunting. In most other countries, hunting of large marine mammals has been prohibited. In the...

Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti

Other

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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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Part 1 Why do we Shoot Seals?

When the seal population had collapsed around 1980 and was almost completely extinct, the authorities put an end to all hunting. Seal protection areas were...

Reporter: Lena Scherman

Editing: Alexandre Gobatti/Daniel Hager

Graphics: Daniel Hager

Other

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Critical Situation for the Swedish Seas

The situation for fish, birds and seals in the Swedish seas remains critical. We fish too much and release too many harmful substances, says Mats...

Text: Petra Hedbom/TT

Photo: Heribert Proepper/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Citizen Power – Saving Kelp Forests

They are extraordinary biodiversity hotspots. They absorb large amounts of CO2 and release oxygen. They fix nitrogen and detoxify the water. They are nurseries for...

Reportage: Ismaele Tortella/Delphin Ruché

Photo: Ismaele Tortella

Research

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Red Light for the Baltic herring? Old news!

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

Fishing

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Urgent Situation for the Baltic Herring – the Fish You Should Skip

Several stocks of the Baltic herrings in the Baltic Sea are seriously threatened according to the World Wide Fund for Nature's latest Fish Guide. The...

Text: Petra Hedbom/TT

Graphics: Johan Hallnäs/TT

UW Photo: Johan Candert

Fishing Other

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overfishing

Daniels story

A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder

Scientific Advisory Body Recommend More than Doubled Fishing Quotas in the Baltic

British NGO is taking the UK to court for overfishing

Polite small talk while the sea dies

Fish species in the Mekong river are threatened with extinction – says WWF

The west coast of Sweden

Seal hunting Part 6 – The importance of the seal in the sea

The harbor seal population is declining – due to fish scarcity

Lobster fishing threatened

Open letter – to the Minister for Rural Affairs

“Fishing must be sustainable”

The Real Rulers of the Sea

There is no fishing without fish. Period.

EU overfishing is decided behind closed doors

The fishing vessels secretly fish in our oceans

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

Part 2 Seal hunting in the north is a unique phenomenon

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

Part 1 Why do we Shoot Seals?

Critical Situation for the Swedish Seas

Citizen Power – Saving Kelp Forests

Red Light for the Baltic herring? Old news!

Urgent Situation for the Baltic Herring – the Fish You Should Skip

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