Intensive fishing especially in the early fishing season may lead to the ‘large salmon variant’ becoming rarer and to salmon spawning at a younger age and smaller size,” explains the lead author of ...

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 ...

Rivers in Finland and Sweden are a refuge for Europe's threatened wild salmon. The countries are jointly protecting the species through old-fashioned patrolling and hi-tech surveillance. Protecting ...

WWF Finland is calling for a suspension of wild salmon fishing in the main part of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia for next year. According to WWF, the status of the female broodfish population ...

Atlantic salmon are caught by fisheries when the fish are migrating to spawn. A new study led by the University of Helsinki explored how salmon caught at different times during their spawning ...

Visit Finland launched a new fishing portal at www.visitfinland.com/fishing. Home to 187,888 lakes, Finland also boasts over 600 miles of coastline, an archipelago ...

The evolution of salmon trout farming in Finland provides an interesting example of how different trade policies can affect on the conditions of a small section of a primary industry in the global ...

The European Commission is set to ban directed herring fishing in Finland due to declining Baltic herring stocks. The Commission's proposal, which shocked the Finnish fishing industry, grants only a ...