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Daniels story

Daniel: The tragic tale of an Indonesian deckhand and his brutal voyage on a Chinese squid ship....
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
The outlaw ocean project

A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder

The Chinese fishing fleet is a great power on the sea. It fishes far out to sea where no country's laws reach, and it fishes...
Text: Ian Urbina/The Outlaw Ocean Project
Photo/Video: Ferdi Arnando, Ed Ou, Ben Blankenship, Jiebriel83, Jessica Reyes, Douyin, Desta Motor 143

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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

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

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 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
0:59

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

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
2:14

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

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
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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 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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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

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
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