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
Sweden
1:25
It is early morning sometime late winter last year. Out on the islands in the Skarv archipelago in the sea belt outside Stockholm, female seals...
reportage/redigering: Kajsa Grandell
It may soon become easier to start algae and mussel farms in Sweden. This is indicated by a new investigation that suggests aquaculture should be...
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Jocke Höög/DS
2:16
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
2:21
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
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
1:36
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency decided this year that we should shoot 630 harbor seals, 1500 gray seals and 350 ringed seals. Some think that...
Reportage: Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti
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
0:41
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
2:50
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
2:33
A small crowd has gathered at the edge of Rönne å in Skåne to participate in the annual eel release. Almost a million eels are...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo and Editing: Alexandre Giobatti
I sit in the boat and jig. It rhythmically jerks with the same reel as last year, and the year before that. Every weekend before...
Chronicle: Folke Rydén
Photo: Folke Rydén
01:01
The Japanese Giant Oyster is larger than our domestic variety, and its edges are so sharp that medical services on the west coast have issued...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Foto: Tobias Dahlin, Kimmo Hagman
I have had many pets in my life. First I had budgies. I particularly liked my first one - Mimi. I once took her to...
Chronicle: Daniel Hager
Photo: Daniel Hager
06:34
Sweden's only whale is not easy to see. In the Baltic Sea it is acutely threatened, but outside Kullaberg there is a small colony. There,...
REPORTAGE: MARKO T WRAMÉN
PHOTO: MARKO T WRAMÉN, SARA TORRES ORTIZ, JAKOB HØJER KRISTENSEN, PER CARLSSON
EDIT BY: ANNA W THORBJÖRNSSON
02:49
"Don’t catch any eels at all” say the scientists, if you want to have any eels left in the future. But according to Sofia Brockmark...
REPORTAGE: LENA SCHERMAN
FOTO: TOBIAS DAHLIN, MARCUS LARSSON
DRÖNARE: ROBERT WESTERBERG
1:36
This is what it looks like when cormorants have taken over an island in Stockholm’s archipelago. It’s not exactly attractive when you were expecting green...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photography: Simon Stanford
1:02
The small but spectacularly beautiful comb jelly Mnemiopsis leydyi, can reproduce at a dismaying speed, and copes with warm and cold water and even different...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
1:20
From 1 January this year, fishing quotas have been reintroduced for spin dogfish, and it is also covered by the discard ban, known as the...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Foto: Tobias Dahlin
04:47
The film "What have we done?" which shows man's ruthlessness towards our oceans was praised and named "Honorable mention" in the international competition DPG/Wetpixel Masters...
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
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