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Swedish approach to releases

• f fish in the wild

10th of March 2020

Sofia Brockmark, Senior Analyst Fisheries Policy Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

Releases and removal of fish in natural habitats – different purposes

» Conservation

• Reintroduce fish in rivers where the native

population are extinct

• Enhance or sustain viable populations

» Increase fishing opportunities

• Put-and-take fishery
• Compensatory releases

» Compensate for natural production due to habitat degradation

Freshwater pearl mussel

National regulations

» Release and removal of fish, molluscs and crayfish – national regulation (FIFS 2011:13)

• County Administrative Board (21 in Sweden) – approval procedure
• Species and stock protection
• Diseases protection
• Salmonid fishes need to be fin clipped (but exemptions for scientific

purposes)

• Individual/group tagging
• No removal salmonid fishes allowed from coast to inland waters.

National strategy – release and spread of fish

» Habitat restauration and conservation – release is the last- resort solution » Avoid genetic effects – use fish of local origin » Avoid hatchery effects on the phenotype – minimise time in the captive environment

Upcoming »New EU-legislation – animal health law (AHL) – enter into force in 21st of April 2021 »National legislation and strategy needs to be revised this year » New legislation requiring modern environmental conditions for electrical hydroelectric plants