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Police

Gothenburg 'bomb' turned out to be pile of fish

Police in Gothenburg made a stinky discovery this week when a suspicious package they were called out to investigate turned out to be fishier than previously thought.

salmon

Sweden loses battle over Baltic fishing quotas

Sweden will decrease its herring and salmon catch quota in the Baltic Sea next year, a departure from years of wrangling over cod fishing.

greenpeace

Greenpeace launches cod-fishing protest

Activists for environmental group Greenpeace have started dropping boulders into EU-protected cod fishing grounds off Sweden to impede bottom-trawling, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

greenpeace

Greenpeace to drop boulders in cod protest

In the face of protest from the Swedish government, Greenpeace has announced its continued intention to drop boulders into two cod-fishing areas of the Kattegat sound to prevent bottom trawling in the waters separating the Swedish and Danish mainlands.

fishing

Massive illegal fishing trial underway in western Sweden

Two of seventeen people charged with illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod from Swedish waters admitted wrongdoing on Wednesday in one of Sweden’s largest ever fish poaching cases.