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Stealth is everything!

One of the Mussel farms in disorder

Pontus training with Swedish Coast Guard

Mussels with parasites

Christina

Annelie and Doglas at Utklippan

Peter and Cilla at the Mussel farm

Doglas

Common trash that are signs of new ghost fishing gear in the sea

Palle at interview with GP

Mussel farm

Some ghost gear is caused by fishing to close to trafficked sea lanes

Another drifting buoy

Laban, the support boat

Porpoise

Catch of a diving day

All gill nets are dangerous, also to smaller fish

Lobster, the black gold of our seas

Monofilament lines are also dangerous

Seals, the dogs of the seas

Scooters are great for covering large areas

Sunset behind Hönö Huvud

Rebreather and Light, great tools for ghostnet hunting

Peter

Cilla

No mussels, just this kind of felt algaes

Ryssja, these are used to castch live fish for Norwegian Salmon farms

Beach trash

Starved seabird due to blue mussels suddenly died out

No diving in these conditions

Fishes on their first stop on the way to Norway

Also unwanted fish species are captured in the nets and stressed.

Annelie

Palle and Annelie

Algaes

Seal contact

Lasse receives a lost lobster cage

Palle and Annelie

Dangerous entaglements occur in these lumps of nets

Sam

Palle, Jonas and Doglas

Rather a gray day at the ocean, than a sunny day in the office

Lobster cage full of victims, before the anti ghost fishing yarn was mandatory. Theese we do not find anymor!

Sunlight

Lasse on Kastor

Laban

Kastor

Seal pup

Annelie hard at work emptying a lobsterpot from captured crabs

Relax

Our logo

The making of Fiskarnas Rike Season 2

Our Sponsor The Perfect World Foundation supports us with full face masks with communication. Training session at Poseidon pool

Laban, a great dirt hauler

Dirty ghost gear

Ghost gear

Ghost gear

Ghost gear

GPS plot during “draggning”

Vinga lighthouse

Seal pup closeup

Palle at work in Laban

Jonas at safety stop after scooter search

All too common sight!

Underwater image from a Mussel farm, these pipes are supposed to float in the surface

Palle

Training dives are important to keep the skills

DAGNY our precious ROV that we can inspect difficult areas with, without risking the divers safety

Pontus and Christina preparing for a land based dive

Capsylo, one of our dive platforms

Stray parts from the mussel farms are drifting in the fjords

Stray parts from the mussel farms are drifting in the fjords

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