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spring media reports about industrial fishing in the Stockholm archipelago he is upset and angry but unfortunately not very surprised. Predatory fishing by monstrous trawlers on the west coast and elsewhere creates an even worse ecological imbalance in the archipelago sea and almost literally empties the nets for the archipelago’s locally and ecologically sustainable coastal fishing.
Trawler activities are legal under Swedish fisheries management as they are outside the trawl limit. The international trawling border stretches four nautical miles from the Baltic coast, just across from the new marine reserve in the Swedish stacks, in the outer archipelago. Since the reserve is outside the limit of the trawl, trawlers can fish without being disturbed. By finding loopholes in the law and making the most of the Baltic Sea water, it puts all marine life at risk. When trawlers fish 370 times more livestock than all commercial fishermen in the archipelago, everything from cod and pike to birds and small-scale commercial fishermen is affected.