New bag limits for salmon trollers
EU Council regulation includes new restrictions for recreational fishers at the Baltic Sea in 2022. Together with Finnish Fishing Act the rules and bag limits are: Gulf of Botnia and Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea north of latitude 59°30′N) – no more than one specimen of adipose fin-clipped salmon may be retained per fisherman per […]
Pike is now really hungry
In this spring ice melt later than normally in Southern and Central Finland due to rather cold weather in April. Most lakes became ice-free between May 1‒ May 10. In Lapland many lakes are still covered by ice. Pike starts to spawn in lakes at the same time when the rest of the ice are […]
7 kilo artic char broke the record
Record Fish Committee has approved four new Finnish fish records: artic char 7,04 kg, dace 0,21 kg, rudd 1,244 kg and longspined bullhead 16,0 cm. Arctic char is the northernmost fresh water fish. Arctic char are mostly found in the mountain lakes and rivers of northernmost Lapland and in Lakes Inarijärvi and Kilpisjärvi. The record […]
Shortage of capelin shrinks River Teno Salmon
Researchers from Finland used genetic methods to pinpoint how a fishery for an aquaculture fish food source and changes in salmon fishing may be linked to changes in the size of wild salmon. The study, published recently in journal Science, showed the shrinking size of Atlantic salmon in the River Teno in Northern Finland might […]