Closing the net: Finland and Sweden join forces to fight illegal salmon fishing

euronews (in English)

Rivers in Finland and Sweden are a refuge for Europe's threatened wild salmon. The countries are jointly protecting the species through old-fashioned patrolling and hi-tech surveillance.

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00:00We use the drone to inspect if we see something that should not be in the river.

00:11The drone is a very good equipment to quickly see what's in the water.

00:17We find nets a little bit here and there.

00:20People are quite clever actually when it comes to net fishing.

00:23Net fishing, yes.

00:29We patrol together one Finnish and one Swedish mostly.

00:33And that is very important for us because the river is partly Finnish, partly Swedish.

00:38And because we are two countries in a boat, we don't have to really matter which nationality the fisher has.

00:47So we can ask both the Swedish and the Finnish fishermen.

00:50And that helps us a lot.

00:52We check a fishing license, that they should have a fishing license with them.

00:58And most of them luckily have.

01:01We did about 900 inspections last year on the river and 1% of them had some issue.

01:08So it is about 1% of the fishermen that we inspect where we find something.

01:14And of course we find during the summer a net or two or some nets in the river.

01:21Pick them up and do a police report about them.

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