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 Svensson at the Norwegian Sea and Water Authority.
"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 at the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV), very few people fish for eel in Sweden and they don’t catch very many.