Shrimp Red List for real next week – Expressen

A year ago, WWF, the Red List North Sea shrimp.

Now Reveals SVT News West Swedish Species Information Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) on Tuesday next week also choose to Red List the little shrimp.

Meanwhile, the EU together with Norway opted to raise räkkvoterna 2015, as the species appears to be increasing.

The reason that the Swedish Species Information Centre now wants Red List shrimp because the researchers found that shrimp declined over a ten year period. To become a red-listed species will have decreased by 30 percent. When it comes to shrimp has over the past ten years decreased by 30-50 percent.

– The statistics for North Sea shrimp provide a range of between 10-60 percent, somewhere is the most likely value to the has fallen around 40 percent in the last decade, says Ulf Gärdefors, deputy head of the Swedish Species Information Centre, SVT West.

The shrimp is now placed in the category of Near Threatened and thus becomes the red list. This category is the lower of the five categories that are not directly threatened. The other categories are, Extinct, Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable.

Although the shrimp rödlistats by WWF and thus now also Artdatabanken choose to do the same, continue fishing for shrimp in the Skagerrak and the Norwegian trench. In 2015 it was decided Norway and the EU to increase the fishery by 15 percent. They have chosen to follow the evidence International Sea (ICES) has produced. This is also evidence from a Swedish Species Information Centre used to make the decision to IUCN Red shrimp.

The shrimp upset feelings among the fishermen on the west coast is also known.

– It’s like a shout the wolf when you constantly want to be in crisis after crisis stamp, says Mathias Ivarsson, shrimpers on Åstol, SVT West. This means that the consumer is confused.

He thinks Species Database decisions based on erroneous grounds, because they make a totally different conclusion than the ICES who even wants to increase the fishery.

Now it is Up to Marine and Water Authority (HAV) and finally the EU to consider rödlistningen. Maybe a red listing does nothing for the Swedish fisheries.