Seal hunting part 8 – Why do we shoot seal and not porpoises?

Seal hunting part 8 – Why do we shoot seal and not porpoises?

Many want to blame the seal and the cormorant when the fish disappear, but porpoises also eat fish. So how come we have license hunting for seals but not porpoises? A political decision says researchers.

  • Reportage: Lena Scherman
  • Editing: Alexandre Gobatti
  • Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Leif Eiransson, Simon Stanford, Anders Kronborg, Lunds Universitet
Anna GårdmarkEnvironmentlicensed seal huntingporpoiseSeabirdssealseal huntingSwedenTero Härkönenthe baltic sea