Another Sami village is challenging the state for the right to hunt and fishery

This is reported by Sweden's Radio Ekot. In a letter to the government, the Sami village requests that the state stop selling hunting and fishing licenses within its areas - and is considering following Girja's example and suing the state,.

In the Girjasm case last winter, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sami village, through ancient memory, has the rights to hunting and fishing. Aslak Allas, president of Talma's Sami village, believes that they meet the same criteria.

- We are indigenous people here, so we think that we are the right of lease for hunting and fishing, and then we feel that the county administrative board can not fulfill its task of giving up, but there will be great, considerable inconvenience to the reindeer herding in the village, he says to Ekot.

Rural Minister Jennie Nilsson (S) says in a comment to Ekot that she wants the issue of hunting and fishing rights to be resolved politically, and not through the court of individual Sami villages.