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Wed, 22 Jul, 2015 12:08:58 AM FTimes – STT Report, July 22  Torniojoki. File Photo – Lehtikuva. Fishermen are once again concerned at detected death of fish in the Torniojoki for which there has been no clear reason.
Fish whose skin has abscess-like lesions were detected on the Swedish side of the river in the last couple of years.
“It may be that there will be no salmon at all in the river in five or six years’ time,” Leif Taavola told the Swedish news agency TT.
Taavola lives in Juoksenki, a Swedish municipality on the Torniojoki, and has been fishing in the river since the 1960s.
Taavola said fishermen believe the authorities were not taking the problem seriously.
Natural Resources Institute Finland researcher Atso Romakkaniemi told news agency STT that dead fish have also been detected on the Finnish side of the river.
“The number of salmons in the Torniojoki have multiplied compared to previous years,” Romakkaniemi said.
This may also be the reason for the increased observations. The salmon catch last year was 147,000 kilograms. The number has multiplied in the 2000s compared to the average. In the 1980s, only thousands were left in the fishermen’s nets.
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