Press releases

2013

February

• Meningeal worm found in moose calves in South-West Finland (14.2.2013)

January

• FGFRI’s telephone numbers will change in February 2013 (10.1.2013)
• A record 28,000 grey seals counted in the Baltic Sea last year (9.1.2013)

2012

November

• The Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, the Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, and the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for Kainuu will investigate the impact on fish in the area impacted by waste water from the (14.11.2012)

October

• Increasing aquaculture in the Baltic Sea meets with positive response (29.10.2012)

April

• The mystery of the M74 syndrome solved: Plentiful fatty sprat as prey for salmon leads to reproduction disorder (20.4.2012)

March

• Fisheries management measures are recommended to improve the status of Baltic Sea trout stocks (2.3.2012)

2011

October

• Changes in Baltic Sea aquaculture: More output with less environmental load (5.10.2011)

May

• EU Fish II – key environmental pollutants in Baltic fish (27.5.2011)

2010

July

• Crayfish season 2010 – reliable catch predictions support development of the crayfish industry (20.7.2010)

May

• A new computational model being developed for estimating populations of large carnivores (25.5.2010)

April

• The harm caused to domestic animals and reindeer by wolves is clearly lower than in previous years (23.4.2010)

March

• E-mail is up and working again (24.3.2010)
• RKTL email service is down (22.3.2010)

2009

December

• Fewer grey seals sighted in the Baltic Sea than last year (4.12.2009)

2008

November

• More than 22,300 grey seals counted in the Baltic Sea (5.11.2008)

October

• Lynx population doubled between 1994 and 2007 while the wolverine population grew more slowly (3.10.2008)

September

• Fishing tourism creates employment in rural areas (11.9.2008)
• Grouse populations very low (9.9.2008)

August

• Juvenile supplementation does little to increase wild salmon stocks (27.8.2008)
• Waterfowl broods managed moderately well despite the cold and rainy start to the summer (13.8.2008)
• Brill – a new fish species in Finland (7.8.2008)

July

• Results of 2008 inventory of grey seal in Finnish waters equal last year’s levels (15.7.2008)
• Crayfish catch expected to surpass peak catches of previous years (14.7.2008)
• Aquaculture 2007 (10.7.2008)

June

• Commercial Marine Fishery 2007 (13.6.2008)
• Producer Prices for Fish 2007 (13.6.2008)
• The roles of regional large carnivore consultative committees in conflict management (13.6.2008)
• Foreing trade in fish 2007 (13.6.2008)
• Wildlife triangles 2007 (13.6.2008)

April

• Net loading system for fish farming: trash fish reduction and internal loading (9.4.2008)
• New publication about Fish species in Finland (9.4.2008)

February

• Alien fish species in northernmost Finland (6.2.2008)
• Population densities of small carnivores in Finnland (6.2.2008)

January

• Successful pikeperch larviculture with co-feeding using Artemia and a dry micro-diet in 2007 (29.1.2008)
• The commercial inland fishery catch totalled 4500 tons in 2006 (29.1.2008)

2006

June

• European whitefish helps Finland’s trout farmers diversify (30.6.2006)