I am now forbidden to fish for cod and the pike has disappeared from my bay. I'm looking for scapegoats. Who is responsible for the condition below the surface in the Baltic Sea? Small-scale professional fishermen along the east coast have been raising the alarm for several years that the herring has declined sharply. At the same time, the large-scale trawling in the open sea has continued to catch large quantities, which have gone directly to the fishmeal factories in Denmark.
Last May, we joined sport fishing guide Peter Berggren for a day of pike fishing in the Stockholm archipelago. Little did we know that our trip would be filled with more than just fishing. Throughout the day, Peter shared his musings about the cormorant, the seal, the pike, and the trawlers, leaving us with much to contemplate long after the trip ended.
Three experienced filmmakers with underwater cameras and diving equipment are on the hunt to capture spawning pike on camera. The water in the bay they are filming in is clear and the day is sunny, and there are certainly pike spawning in the reeds. Although they are fewer than they have ever been before and they are not easy to capture on camera
E-DNA has been used to, among other things, track the spread of the coronavirus in our wastewater – now researchers are testing the method on pike
Is it the collapse of predatory fish that we see in the Baltic Sea? Pike are disappearing from bays and reeds at a rapid rate. Researchers seek to understand why
There are fifty times more sticklebacks in the Baltic Sea today than in the late 1980s. The small fish threatens the regrowth of the pike
The big stick has become one of the really serious environmental problems in the Baltic Sea
