Tag: Fishing
The record smuggling of cocaine outside Styrsö
It all starts when three guys are out fishing when they make the big find. In the following days, even more cocaine floats up in and around Styrsö. In total, it is 24 kilos. But it will turn out that the amount to be smuggled in was a whopping 400 kilos. When the police begin […]
Whodunnit: The Nord Stream mystery continues
Any hope that the mysterious object found attached to the Nord Stream pipeline might reveal the culprit behind the September explosions appears to have been dashed. Military researcher Johannes Riber has stated that it is extremely unlikely that the object, which measures 10 by 40 cm, has anything to do with the sabotage, reports DR. […]
Fragments of the plane and a human skull were found
The crew of the trawler Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson GK-255 recovered the plane’s wreckage and a human skull while fishing in Jökuldýpi, about 50 miles west of the Reykjanes peninsula in south-west Iceland. The news was first reported by Vísir.is. Captain Kristján Ólafsson tells mbl.is that it’s part of the plane’s tail, part of the outer skin […]
One in eight full-time employees in Denmark is a foreigner
Ukrainians eager to workFigures from ALMR also showed that the Ukrainians who fled to Denmark to escape Russia’s invasion have not been idle. Of the nearly 12,500 who have been granted residence in Denmark and whom municipalities consider ready for work7,218 (58 percent) have found a job. It is up to the individual municipalities to […]
The longest collective agreement in the fishing industry was signed
Representatives of the Icelandic Seafarers’ Union and the Union of Fishing Companies (SFS) have signed new collective agreements. These agreements are to run for ten years. The new agreement puts emphasis on wage increases in line with those implemented by the Workers’ Federation (SGS), increasing pension contributions and increasing the safety and health of workers. […]
Right now: PM Nilsson resigns – after the eel fishing
The Prime Minister’s State Secretary announces his resignation on Facebook. PM Nilsson has been in trouble after being sentenced to a fine for fishing eels without a permit. He also allegedly lied about it to the police.
50 years since the Heimaey eruption
The history of great events is worth remembering and drawing as many conclusions as possible from them. Such a case is the volcanic eruption on the island of Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, which began half a century ago, on the night of January 23, 1973. It’s still amazing that no one died then. The […]
The MPs reject the citizens’ initiative to ban net fishing in Saimaa
In the area of South-Eastern Finland lives the highly endangered Saimaa marten, which can get caught in nets and drown.
The highly endangered norpa drowns in a fishing net in Eastern Finland
The male cub was probably born last winter because it was a meter long and weighed about 28 kilograms, Metsähallitus said.
The walrus destroyed equipment worth more than 10,000 euros, says a Kotka fisherman
A female walrus that got lost in the Baltic Sea has caused a stir after appearing last Thursday in Hamina on the southeast coast of Finland, where it stayed until Saturday. On Sunday, it appeared about 30 km west in Suulisniemi, just south of the port city of Kotka. There it became entangled in the […]
Rescue operation in Breiðafjörður
Yesterday morning, two people were rescued from a sinking fishing boat off the coast of Breiðafjörður. The boat was leaking and the pumps on it were unable to cope with the amount of water flowing onto the deck. The rescue operation was very quick and only 6 minutes after the Coast Guard emergency call was […]
A fishing boat burned down
A crew member from the Gosi-KE boat, which caught fire this morning near the Rif, was rescued by the fishing boat Diddi SH-159, which arrived to the rescue just before 10am in Breiðafjörður. The man was in a lifeboat near the burning vessel. It was taken to the Björg rescue boat from the Rif and […]
Inflation in Finland accelerated to 7 per cent in May
The annual rise in consumer prices was 5.7 per cent in April. Inflation was even higher in the euro area. According to Eurostat’s harmonized index of consumer prices, consumer prices rose by 8.1 per cent year-on-year in May, 0.7 percentage points higher than in April. According to the index, inflation in Finland was 7.1 per […]
Up the alternative alley: Walks past wooden wonders by the water
In my first guidebook, I suggested that you explore Amager by going ‘To the Water’ – and this edition goes a similar way. A roof like a waveThis walk takes you from Knippelsbro to Amager Strand with a small detour to one of my favorite places: The Maritime Youth House. This wooden construction was designed […]
A record number of Finns enjoy boating
Boating has grown into a summer hobby for years and Jarkko PajusaloFinnboat, the CEO of the Finnish Maritime Industry Association, says that based on the growth in sales of used boats, large numbers of new boaters will come to the lakes and the sea this season. "This summer, a record number of new boaters will […]
10 Internet security rules that protect your account from hackers
One wrong message can lead to hackers gaining access to your personal information, including access to your credit cards and bank information. Most hackers may not be interested in ordinary people’s accounts and target celebrities or special individuals of interest, but there are also a huge number of fishing companies targeting the general public. It […]
The patrol detects rare greed on the Finnish-Russian border
According to the agency, the border guards patrolled a rare wolverine on the Russian border in South Karelia on Tuesday. The Southeast Finland Border Guard reported the finding in a tweet, which also accompanied by a short video from a highly endangered mammal. The video showed the wolf running eagerly towards the border guards, after […]
Sámi activists won the fishing rights case
The Supreme Administrative Court has acquitted Sámi activists of violating the fishing rules of the Teno River in its ruling that the current regulations are in conflict with the Sámi constitutional rights. The charges relate to the Sámi rights to fish in the Teno River in Utsjoki and Vetsijoki without a fishing permit. In the […]
Question or ears? How linguistic prejudices perpetuate inequality
Teacher and artist Sunn M’Cheaux has written on social media about “linguistics” after a reader asked him about the word “ax” and said: “Why did we struggle to say ‘question’? Like when I was little I always said ‘ax’. As I could tell. not the word right. “ M’Cheaux’s response counteracts the common idea that […]
Monday’s newspapers: Flourishing housing market, hospitality problems, snow chaos
The Finnish housing market has risen, especially in 2021, despite the economic effects of the Covid pandemic. Helsingin sanomat newspaper (HS) writes. As a result, house prices rose nearly 4 percent nationwide, while demand in the capital lifted price tags by 5.5 percent. This is Statistics Finland’s fastest growth in ten years, says HS. In […]
Danish aquarium exhibits dead guinea pigs
It’s nice-tastic! The dead guinea pig was acquired from a fisherman who found the small dolphin-like marine mammal in its fishing net. The exhibition also allows children to dissect fish and touch live crabs, starfish and flatfish. Guests can also take part in the Fjord & Belt’s daily training session for guinea pigs and seals.
Last year, the fisheries management fees paid amounted to EUR 9.7 million
The result was clear: payments were highest in North Karelia (7.28%), Kainuu (7.17%) and Lapland (7.10% of the population). The lowest payments were made in Ostrobothnia (2.97%), Southern Ostrobothnia (3.21%) and Satakunta (3.66%). Relatively enthusiastic fishermen were also shown from Northern Ostrobothnia, Central Finland and Savo. More than 5% of them paid a fisheries management […]
EU, France seeks response from the ship for 100,000 dead fish in the Atlantic
PARIS, France: After the environmental group Sea Shepherd released videos and photos of a massive swarm of dead fish released by a large trawler in the French Atlantic, the EU and France have launched an investigation. The images showed a blanket of dead blue whiting fish floating on the surface of the Bay of Biscay, […]
Scottish Constitution Minister: “Deep lack of Brexit benefits”
The simple truth is that the benefits of Brexit are profoundly lacking, while the disadvantages are far too obvious. “The declared benefit of the iconic blue passports and the crown markings on the glass is a small beer that does not in any way remedy Brexit’s significant step backwards in our trade position in the […]
Research shows that extreme heat is the new norm in the oceans
And these extremes, the researchers said, increase the risk of collapse of critical marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and algal forests, changing their structure and functioning and threatening their ability to sustain life. services to human communities. The researchers conducted the study by mapping sea surface temperatures over a 150-year period to determine […]
The court bans the use of wolf hunting exemptions in two areas
The Administrative Court of Northern Finland has prohibited the use of two exceptions to the ban on wolf hunting in the Kuhmo Saunajärvi region in Eastern Finland and in the Siikajoki area on the west coast. The Game Agency issued hunting permits at the end of December, as the authorities aim to kill a total […]
The Institute of Marine and Freshwater Research calls for a total ban on fishing for crawfish
The Icelandic Institute for Marine and Freshwater Research (MRFI) has suggested a total ban on fishing for crawfish in 2022 and 2023. Over the past few years, the number of these creatures in domestic fisheries has been exceptionally low. The size of the crawfish population has decreased by 27% since 2016, and this year the […]
The Greenlandic fishing vessel ran aground
As reported by mbl.is, Freyja, the newest vessel of the Icelandic Coast Guard, came to the rescue of Greenlandic fishing vessel Masilik when the latter ran aground 500 meters offshore at Gerðistangi in the Reykjanes Peninsula the penultimate night. Gerðistangi is located on the northern side of the peninsula, east of Keflavík. Freyja and the […]
Could Danish concerns about fishing rights be remedied by Scottish independence?
The UK government recently announced plans to ban bottom trawling in a number of areas that serve as important habitats for declining marine wildlife. One of these areas included Dogger Bank, a sandbank in the North Sea that is an important home for a variety of aquatic life, including starfish and Atlantic cod. Despite environmental […]
The Samherji Holding has sold its shares in Eimskip for over a billion
Samherji, by far the largest shareholder of Eimskip, holding around a third of their shares, reduced its stake in the company by 1.4 percentage points. Such information can be found in the new list of the twenty largest shareholders of Eimskip. According to Insider, the Samherji holding sold a total of 2.5 million shares at […]
The decision on the Helsinki tunnel project was postponed
The Helsinki City Government was expected to approve the new traffic tunnel plan, which will cost almost 180 million euros, and hand over the project to the city council on Monday. Instead, representatives of the Social Democratic Party put pressure on the postponement and called for an in-depth study of the project’s impact on the […]
Pamela Anderson – Sextapes, Assange and rock’n’roll
Pamela Anderson, born in 1967, grows up in a small fishing village in western Canada. She is discovered by chance at an American football match and soon gets her first plane ticket, a trip that leads to the men’s magazine Playboy and Hollywood. In the 90s, she will be known as the lifeguard CJ Parker […]
Local elections 2021: Tireless fight against corruption, and make the voices of international members heard
Frederiksberg councilor David Munis Zepernick is running for re-election after a successful election campaign in 2017. The issues that are close to the Radical Left politician’s mind reflect his legacy (through his mother he is a quarter African), his volunteer work (mainly as chairman of the Safe and Alive Foundation, an organization that works to […]
They want the old Herjólfur in Breiðafjörður
There is a particular emphasis on transport issues in the resolutions of the Congress of the West Fjords District Association (Fjórðungssamband Vestfjarða), which was held this weekend in Ísafjörður. Local councilors believe it is important that the new ferry pass through Breiðafjörður instead of Baldur, which is currently operating in the fishing industry. The current […]
Crowded fishing dinghy capsizes at Sisimiut – 44-year-old killed
– The dinghy capsized because it had too much fish on board. A woman and a man swam ashore, says duty officer Mads Lynge. – They also managed to get the third person ashore, but he had already died, it sounds. He says that the two people who survived are fine under the circumstances. – […]
Crowded fishing dinghy capsizes at Sisimut – 44-year-old killed
– The dinghy capsized because it had too much fish on board. A woman and a man swam ashore, says duty officer Mads Lynge. – They also managed to get the third person ashore, but he had already died, it sounds. He says that the two people who survived are fine under the circumstances. – […]
France is preparing sanctions as fisheries disputes with Britain deepen
France has threatened sanctions against Britain at the end of the week if a post-Brexit fisheries agreement is not respected. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said the sanctions would take effect sometime in November if more French fishermen were not granted licenses before the end of October. The tagged subject fishing rights has re-emerged recently as […]
Fish from streams across the country are checked for toxic fluoride
In October and November, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency catches fish from 50 streams across the country. This is done to investigate whether PFAS has polluted nearby watercourses. This is stated by the agency in a press release. PFAS is a group of toxic substances. The harmful fluorine PFOS belongs to this group. It was […]
A hydrogen plant in the east of Iceland
Landsvirkjun, the municipality of Fjarðabyggð and the Danish investment fund CIP have joined forces in a project to open a hydrogen production facility at the Mjóeyrarhöfn green energy park in Reyðarfjörður in eastern Iceland. – ADVERTISEMENT – Jón Björn Hákonarson, the mayor of Fjarðabyggð, says the project is just one of many planned projects. “As […]
The loss of biodiversity is endangering humanity
This Global Biodiversity Framework provides a strategic vision and global roadmap for the conservation, protection, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems over the next decade. Slow Food requires a roadmap that includes ambitious goals and takes into account the role of the people who have protected their local nature since ancient times. The […]
Ten EU states support France in fishing queue with Great Britain
Eleven EU members, including France, have signed a joint declaration against Britain on how it has handled fishing licenses after Brexit. Germany, Spain and Italy, along with Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden, joined France in condemning the British response to French fishing license requests. “We urge the United Kingdom to provide […]
How killer whales hunt herring
East of Iceland, where herring is fished, a lot has happened lately. Not only humans want spines, they are also hunted by orcs. Such hunting was observed in Héraðsflói Bay in the northernmost part of the eastern fjords last week, reports Morgunblaðið. Killer whales often follow the fishing boats. Individual specimens line up in a […]
Record-breaking ahead of the Swedish election, Madonna’s all shapes and the legacy of Lars Vilks
Time 1: * Record even between the blocs in Swedish politics – about the parties’ positioning before the election * Abortion law in Texas temporarily stopped – but opposition to free abortion continues * With Madonna in New York – our correspondent about all the shapes of the superstar * The legacy of Vilks – […]
Mette Frederiksen: Member of Parliament was exposed to racism
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) distances herself from a verbal attack on Member of Parliament Sikandar Siddique and his parents in connection with the opening of Parliament on Tuesday. She wrote this on Facebook on Thursday in connection with the opening debate. – He was yesterday (Tuesday, ed.) Exposed to a completely unheard of racist […]
Leftover fishing tackle can cost Greenland millions
Old fishing nets or other fishing tackle left behind by fishermen in the Greenlandic sea still catch fish for around DKK 60 million a year. This emerges from a study carried out by the Naalakkersuisut, the Greenland Home Rule Government, writes the Greenlandic media Sermitsiaq.AG. – Naalakkersuisut finds it important to protect nature. We have […]
Quotas can stifle cod fishing in parts of the Baltic Sea
The European Commission proposes that cod quotas in the western Baltic Sea be cut by 92 percent. It writes Politiken. Thus, fishermen from Bornholm, Sjælland, Lolland-Falster, Fyn, Langeland and Sønderjylland go from being able to catch 1746 tonnes this year to 141 tonnes of cod next year. However, the cod that fishermen may still catch […]
Quotas can stifle cod fishing in parts of the Baltic Sea
The European Commission proposes that cod quotas in the western Baltic Sea be cut by 92 percent. It writes Politiken. Thus, fishermen from Bornholm, Sjælland, Lolland-Falster, Fyn, Langeland and Sønderjylland go from being able to catch 1746 tonnes this year to 141 tonnes of cod next year. However, the cod that fishermen may still catch […]
Environment and cod thrive in the inland Danish waters
The reasons are many. According to Bo Riemann, trawling is particularly harmful because it tears up the seabed and destroys the habitat of fish fry. – The large cod are fished in the fjords and parts of the Kattegat. Sustainability is a spot on the moon in this here. The only place where you have […]
Environment and cod thrive in inland waters
The sea plan submitted by the Social Democrat government with a consultation deadline of 30 September must be valid for 10 years. But it is not professionally based and completely inadequate, says professor, dr.scient. Bo Riemann, Aarhus University. – The sea plan is only a political product and prioritises exclusively business interests. Unfortunately, it is […]
Industrial robot in Norwegian industry
Norwegian industry is something we in Norway are proud of, and involves everything from forestry to fishing to many other exciting industries that take both nature and society into their ambitions and production. Norway has one of the richest industries, with great variation in what we produce and what resources we have available. And to […]
EU € 1.5 billion fuel tax subsidies increase climate impact and overfishing: Report
Report, The air impact and the fishing industry will benefit from EU fuel tax subsidies, which assesses tax subsidies for fossil fuels for the entire EU fishing fleet and includes case studies from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands, finds that destructive and fuel – consuming fishing vessels benefit most from these false subsidies, […]
Performance Review: Sharp social commentary captured in an overambitious narrative
In a 90-minute high-octane exhibition featuring various dark comic portraits of modern femininity and sexuality, playwright Amy Gijsbers van Wijk gives us philosophy, Greek mythology, strobes, snakes, camgirls, sign language, shotgunning beer, karaoke, palmistry, dance and a lot of glitter. ‘feminine octagon [or Aristotle can eat me]’deals with themes of feminism, patriarchy, capitalism and the […]
National Round-Up: Residents of nursing homes get the green light to get third shots
The National Board of Health’s health authority has confirmed that a third vaccination shot can now be offered to residents of Denmark’s nursing homes. A new vaccination program is likely to start in week 37. The National Board of Health has published its plans following a request from the European Medicines Agency, which has worked […]
Minister will tighten the screw for ships with hidden position
Fisheries Minister Rasmus Prehn (S) wants to tighten the screw for ships that hide their position by switching off the position signal – also called AIS. He tells this to TV 2, after the TV station has been able to tell about Dutch trawlers that sail in Danish waters with the position signal off. According […]
Please vote! It’s your community too!
Remember that 2021 is election year in Denmark. Most of you are eligible! The regional and local elections are both scheduled for 16 November, and unlike national elections, for which you must be a Danish citizen and have a permanent residence in Denmark in order to vote, non-Danish citizens can vote in regional municipalities and […]
The ecologist cat hit the headlines
Birta the cat, who lives in the fishing village of Höfn í Hornafirði in eastern Iceland, made headlines as a purring wonder member of the community. According to Vísir, the cat is an avid garbage collector and fills up to two garbage bags a month with the garbage she has collected. She even received a […]
Fishing artifacts found in Seyðisfjörður
According to RÚV, the remains of an old fishing village may have been discovered during the archaeological excavations in Seyðisfjörður. 200-year-old mills were also discovered on site. Hooks, fishing rods and other well-made tools have been found in a place that has been continuously inhabited for about a thousand years. – ADVERTISEMENT – Some are […]
The Crown Prince is fishing for tuna left in Danish waters
But in the 1960s, the tuna disappeared from Danish waters without the researchers knowing the cause. In recent years, it has returned, and now researchers are trying to find out why the tuna apparently thrives again at Danish latitudes. – It is nothing short of fantastic that the bluefin tuna has returned to Danish waters […]
The tight-lipped businessman had to open his mouth
On Sunday 15 August, former director and chairman of the board Alf Duch-Pedersen turns 75 years old. Most recently, Alf Duch-Pedersen was Chairman of the Board of Danske Bank and the Danish-British security group G4S. But previously he was, among other things, CEO of the insurance group Tryg-Baltica and later the food giant Danisco. Regarding […]
A Finnish fisherman switches to a taxi due to climate change
In addition to its many effects, global climate change is causing difficulties for the fishing industry. Fishermen – and women – need to adapt to the changing species of fish that are still available. For example, the number of vendace and whitefish in Finnish inland waters, which are important for commercial fishermen, is falling, according […]
Minister: State aid rules prevent direct compensation to fishermen
Due to EU state aid rules, it is not legal for the government to compensate fishermen directly. – Direct compensation to fishermen is considered state aid, and this is not allowed according to EU law, says Rasmus Prehn. He points out that there are some exceptions to the rules, but even the special situation around […]
New think tank will focus on sustainable use of the sea
That is the opinion of Maria Reumert Gjerding, who is the front person for the board of the new Sea Think Tank, which will be launched on Monday 21 June. It is important that we look at the transformation of the sea in the same way as we have seen in the green transformation, where […]
Thursday leaves: Pizza oven boom, mosquito repellent, week-long heat wave
Tabloid Evening Pages write domestic tourist boom, or cottage boom, this summer, customers have emptied the shelves of some very predictable and also unexpected products. Director of K-Rauda Olli Pere tells IL that sales of pizza ovens in the retail chain have increased by 800%, while E-Commerce’s commercial director Vesa Järveläinen says hot tubs sell […]
Mines at Hanstholm Harbor have been detonated under the sea
On Wednesday evening, the navy detonated a mine off Vigsø Bay. On Wednesday, a fishing vessel found the horn mine and brought it to Hanstholm Harbor. Therefore, on Wednesday night, the police cordoned off an area with a radius of 400 meters around the mine. The mine was located around “Bassin 3” in the harbor, […]
Mines at Hanstholm Harbor are sailed out to be blown up
A fishing vessel has found a horn mine and brought the mine to Hanstholm Harbor. Therefore, on Wednesday night, the police cordoned off an area with a radius of 400 meters around the mine. The mine was located around “Bassin 3” in the harbor. This is stated by communications officer Mette Quistgaard from the Central […]
Parts of Hanstholm Harbor closed off after finds of mine
A fishing vessel has found a horn mine and brought the mine to Hanstholm Harbor. Therefore, the police have cordoned off an area of 400 meters around the mine. Persons who were inside the cordoned off area have been evacuated. The Central and West Jutland Police write this in a press release. The mine is […]
Danish fishermen must catch fewer sandeels after Brexit
– It is tiring that the British have stood outside the EU, and it has been tough negotiations. One price we have had to accept in the end for an agreement is the slightly lower quota for sandeel, says Minister of Fisheries Rasmus Prehn (S) in the press release. – But my clear assessment is […]
Red City King gladly took a stand against the party top
The topic was the placement of a toll ring in the metropolitan area, where several Social Democratic Vestegn municipalities suddenly stood on the wrong side of the toll wall. The object of the anger was the then Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (S). – You can of course choose the road that the Minister of Transport […]
Case against quota kings on pause while million claims are recalculated
The lawsuit against, among others, the big fisherman Henning Kjeldsen was temporarily suspended on Wednesday morning. It writes DR. The break comes after Kjeldsen’s defense lawyer, Olaf Koktvedgaard, has asked the court to have an auditor recalculate the confiscation claim that the prosecutor has made at the Court in Holstebro. According to Olaf Koktvedgaard, both […]
Let us remember those who died at sea
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir expressed wishes to fishermen, fish processors and their families on the occasion of Fisherman’s Day. He also mentions those who died at sea. She explained that the fishing industry occupies a special place in the minds of Icelanders because it has long been the main source of national income. It also […]
The film producer denies that it is behind the artificially high film rating on the Danish cinema site
Do you ever get the impression when you look at the Danish media’s reviews of home-produced films that there is any fishing? Somehow they always end up getting 5/6, often while foreign films with universal recognition, like ‘Promising Young Woman’ recently, only get 4/6 without a single hint as to why they lost two stars. […]
Deceased man found in the water in Randers Fjord
The body of a man has been salvaged in Randers Fjord near the ferry terminal at Mellerup. Police have identified him as a 50-year-old man who disappeared last week in connection with a fishing trip. This is stated by the East Jutland Police on Twitter. Police say it received the report at 9:31 a.m. Thursday. […]
Archaic villages on the White Sea
Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers the wooden corpses in life in the Russian north. Company. St. Church. Peter & Paul, south view. Right background: village house & Virma River. July 7, 2000 William Brumfield In the early 20th century, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky developed a complex process for vivid, detailed color […]
“Feels like we stumbled on the finish line”
There are many indications that the Sami Parliament will continue to be governed by the parties that want hunting and fishing rights to be primarily associated with reindeer husbandry. This means that the party Jakt och fiskesami, which received 37 percent of the votes in the election, will continue to be in opposition. “Yes, it […]
The largest party seems to be gaining some influence
The opposition party Hunting and Fishing Sami received 37.6 percent of the vote in the election to the Sami Parliament. Despite this, it seems that the current political coalition can remain as they have 16 of 31 seats together. “If the Hunting and Fishing Sami gain greater influence over the Sami Parliament than they have […]
No change of power in the Sami Parliament
The results of the Sami parliamentary election are now presented. There will be no change of power, the hunting and fishing Sami will be the largest party, but that is not enough to get its own majority. Instead, Samelandspartiet and Guovssonásti remain in power. Hear Jörgen Heikki, reporter at Sameradion, discuss the results with host […]
Mette F. on featured video: We all have a responsibility to say no
A video of a man’s overfishing of a family at Kastrup Harbor on Saturday has made politicians and users on social media react. – Why do you not piss off to your own country ?, the man says in the video, among other things to the couple, who according to DR has a Tunisian background. […]
Friday leaves: Train stopped, phishing and drug resistant fungus
Rail traffic has come to a halt on Friday after a protest by locomotive drivers began at midnight, says Helsingin sanomat newspaper, according to which Pasila’s main railway station in Helsinki was deserted on Friday morning. State Railways VR on Friday reported that the stoppage affected HSL commuter trains as well as long-distance passenger and […]
46-year-old fisherman is feared dead in the Baltic Sea
The Armed Forces’ sea rescue service and the Polish sea rescue service launched a search by helicopter and several lifeboats. – At some point you find a net from the boat and get it salvaged. The fisherman could possibly have been caught in the net and pulled into the water, but the net was empty, […]
National Round-Up: Candidates can celebrate as usual this summer … with a little distance
It is approaching that time of year again when the streets are filled with students driving trucks listening to loud music. But even today, they can throw their hats high in the air because the government has finally given them the green light to celebrate. The Minister for Children and Education, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, confirmed the […]
Right now
Salmon farming in Säffle will, among other things, use fishmeal as feed, a product that can have negative consequences for marine ecosystems and local fishing communities in South America and West Africa, among other places. Mother Mbengue, who is a fisherman in Senegal, says that their means of subsistence have been worsened by the increased […]
Fewer bankruptcies in the first quarter, but more employees lost their jobs
The number of bankruptcies filed in January-March this year decreased by 12.4 per cent from the corresponding period in 2020, according to Statistics Finland’s new figures. However, the number of employees in companies subject to bankruptcy applications was more than 4% higher than a year ago. Bankruptcies decreased in all sectors except agriculture, forestry and […]
The police government classifies the report on the monitoring of the Roma community
The National Board of Police has rejected media requests for copies of an internal report registered by the Helsinki Police on the movements of Finnish members of the Roma community. Yle said earlier this month that the Helsinki Police Department has for several years kept records of the movements of members of the Finnish Roma […]
Eight accused: Made fake website for the National Board of Health
Eight men have been jointly charged with the scam, which could result in a greatly increased sentence because it is related to the corona crisis. It was in April last year that they sent an SMS to the citizen on Funen. The person in question was tricked into believing that the message was from the […]
Several dead in storms in India – cyclone is expected to pull in
At least four people have been killed and a fishing boat with 23 men on board is missing in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala due to heavy rain and strong winds. Local authorities testify that several villages were flooded and that properties and roads were damaged. More than 100,000 residents in the […]
State Auditors on gap: Too close ties between agriculture and government
This is what the Deputy Chairman of the State Auditors, Klaus Frandsen (R), said on Wednesday, after the State Auditors have presented sharp criticism of the control of agricultural support. – It is not good enough. It just’s not, he says. He points out that there has also been criticism of the control of fishing […]
State Auditors: Too close ties between agriculture and government
This is what the Deputy Chairman of the State Auditors, Klaus Frandsen (R), said on Wednesday, after the State Auditors have presented sharp criticism of the control of agricultural support. – It is not good enough. It just’s not, he says. He points out that there has also been criticism of the control of fishing […]
Politicians in both the municipality and the Sami Parliament: Only one thing feels in the heart
There is a big difference between being a politician in a municipality and in the Sami parliament, think those who do both. “We can decide what we want, because it is not we who decide anyway”, says Veronika Håkansson, moderate in Storuman’s council, about the assignment for the Hunting and Fishing Sami in the Sami […]
Land issues divide the political parties ahead of the Sami parliamentary election
On Sunday, there is an election to the Sami Parliament, which is the elected parliament and state authority that will work for a living Sami culture in Sweden. An issue that divides the political parties is who will decide on hunting and fishing on reindeer pastures. “Sami outside reindeer husbandry sometimes live on mercy,” says […]
Helsinki police recorded Roma movements
The Helsinki Police Department has been systematically involved in activities that refer to ethnic profiling, according to information received by Yle. For several years, the police department kept a record of the movements of the Finnish Roma community in the Helsinki metropolitan area, taking into account the vehicles owned by the Roma and the social […]
Fishing quarrel in the English Channel – Johnson sends military boats
Britain has sent two military patrol boats to the coast off Jersey to monitor a fishing conflict that has broken out between fishermen in Jersey and fishermen from France. France has threatened to cut off electricity supplies from France to Jersey due to the conflict and dozens of French fishing boats are protesting today outside […]
Final debate – The Sami Parliamentary election
Eight party leaders are gathered in Jokkmokk for a two-hour live debate ahead of the Sami parliamentary election on 16 May. Topics include gender equality, business and rights. Top row participants: Marie Persson Njajta, Swedish Sami National Party, Anders Kråik, Sami, Ronny Svarto, New Sami Reform Party, Jan Rannerud, Forest SamiParticipants lower row: Håkan Jonsson, […]
Rare Lake Saimaa condenses back into streaming, now with sound
WWF Finland has published the popular one webcam included the Saimaa ring for the sixth year. Be called "Norppalive" In Finnish, the live streams present rocks favored by rare seals as a resting place and scratching their winter coats. This year’s streaming started on Wednesday morning and featured sound for the first time. Over the […]
Huge fines for the Norwegian bank that served Samherji
The Norwegian bank DNB was reprimanded by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, which criticized the bank for failing to settle the transaction of six companies associated with the Icelandic seafood company – Samherji. The bank was fined NOK 400 million (USD 48.2 million / EUR 40 million) for not adequately controlling money laundering cases. Kjarninn […]
Right now
There is currently a shortage of fishing equipment from suppliers, according to Pertti Pirttijärvi in Hällefors, which runs a petrol station that sells equipment. This is due to high sales pressure last year. “We notice that many people come here and buy or rent fishing equipment,” he says.
The European Parliament ratifies the EU-UK trade agreement
The trade and co-operation agreement was necessary to regulate relations between Britain and the bloc after the end of the post-Brexit transition period, which ended on 1 January. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen welcomes the ratification of the agreement. “I am very pleased with @Europarl_EN [EU Parliament] to vote in favor […]
New government in Greenland will catch its own fish
Fisheries are a crucial engine for the economy, as they make up the vast majority of exports in Greenland, where there were elections in April. This means that there will be far fewer trawlers from, for example, Ireland, France and Germany in Greenlandic waters. It’s in the agreement. Long-term fisheries objectives are needed. The coalition […]
The high season is over – then the eel fishing ban begins
It will be forbidden to fish for eel throughout Sweden during November to January this year as well, the Swedish Maritime Administration proposes. But the eel fishing ban can in principle be ineffective, according to environmental organizations. “Seven professional fishermen fish eel in the Sound during that period, so it feels a bit awkward in […]
See: Ringed seal puppy relaxing in the sun
WWF Regional Director Ismo Marttinen got a rare video of a young Saimaa ringed puppy in Taipalsaari in the southern part of Lake Saimaa last weekend. The environmental organization WWF said that puppies born this spring may face more dangers than those born in previous years, because there are currently no fishing limits in force […]
