It was last week that the Association Divers against ghost nets published a film with pictures from several of Bohus Havsbruk's mussel farms. The film claims that the company's material at the bottom has become marine debris and that the material is ghost fishing; captures wildlife dying. It is a picture that the company takes away.

- No, we grow the mussels on a net and it's gone to the bottom. But ghost fishing is about leaving things where animals get stuck and die. It's not about this. The material is within our cultivation state and no animal species is stuck in it. It becomes more like an artificial reef.

The film shows a cubic tank on the bottom, how did it end up there?

- We don't know. We had a barge that dropped two years ago. It might come from there. We will contact the diver to get a position and pick it up.

The divers say it's about marine debris, how do you look at it?

- This is completely wrong, it is not at all something that has been dumped or left behind. Everything that is seen on the film is rooted, it is on our cultivation permits and it has not been left. It is we who are responsible. This is valuable equipment for us, we are just waiting to fix it so we can continue growing it.

Could not sell abroad

According to the company, the failed cultivations are due to a variety of circumstances. It is said that you have used anchors that have been under-dimensioned. Then the mussels were hit by a brush lime mask, which meant that the mussels could not be sold abroad. The delayed harvest and the crops became heavier than expected. During the winter storms, parts of the crops are torn apart.

Now we hope to be able to sell the mussels to the Swedish market. But in order to prepare the crops one must harvest.

- We need just under a year before everything is erect on all the crops. We have to harvest the mussels that are on the farms, that is what takes time.