Thu, 01 Aug, 2013 03:13:40 AM FTimes-STT Report, August 01  File Picture of Baltic Sea. Photo - Lehtikuva. The ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on Wednesday imposed ban on hunting the Ringed Seal from the Baltic Sea following decreasing trend of the rare species.
The ministry, however, allowed hunting 30 other species of seals that are harmful for fish and aquaculture in the sea, ministry sources said.
Sources said that the number of Ringed Seal is not increasing in a satisfactory rate prompting the authority to stop hunting of Ringed Seal.
The number of Ringed Seals reached to 7,000 in the Baltic Sea this year and the rate of increase is very slow, said sources, adding that it was more than 2,000 in the 80s.
The Finnish Game Centre, responsible to supervise the hunting of seals granted licence to hunt 1,000 grey seals as the estimated number of grey seal reached 10,000 last summer.
Of the grey seals, 8,500 were in the South-island and Åland Islands and the number is increasing rapidly.
The number of grey seals increased to almost double during the 2000s, said sources.
The ministry sources said that the grey seals are hampering the fish and aquaculture in the sea and the ministry is paying EUR 1.7 million as compensations to the commercial fishing professionals for their incurred losses caused by the seals.
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