Bottom death in the Sound is linked to Danish poop emissions

Recreational diver Thomas Blume has also noted that areas of the seabed around Helsingör are dead:

- It is low in oxygen and lifeless. Neither fish nor bottom animals can thrive there, and if a flatfish swims into the area and stays there, it dies, recreational diver Thomas Blume tells Danish TV station TV2 Lorry.

Stig Markager is professor of marine ecology at Aarhus University. He believes that the dead seabed can be connected to wastewater discharged into the Sound from Copenhagen:

- It is close at hand to assume that the poor cleaning efficiency that one has, especially at the large facilities around Copenhagen, contributes to this.

Also all the way up to Helsingör?

- Yes, because the nutrients flow north, and up at Helsingör there is a lot of flowing water, says Stig Markager to Lorry.

Jonas Gustafsson is a marine biologist at the County Administrative Board of Skåne.

- I did not know the extent of this on the seabed in Helsingör. It is very boring and uncomfortable to see.

At the same time, Jonas Gustafsson points out:

- It's great that this comes to the surface so that it is made conscious. But at the same time, it is important to point out that agriculture is the main contributing factor to an increase in nutrients in marine areas.