It is an area of ​​1,265 hectares of area along the coast and out in the Baltic Sea that the county administrative board in Gävleborg wants to make into nature reserves.

"There are very high marine natural values ​​in the area, mainly linked to the lagoon beds and the shallow beds of the lagoons and shallow bays and to the more exposed hard bottoms," the county administrative board writes in its proposal and continues:


"These environments are also of great importance as play and growing areas for several different fish species."

Total fishing ban

This means that the county administrative board proposes that fishing should be banned in the nature reserve. If this proposal goes through, it means that the reserve will be the first fish-free area in the size of the Gulf of Bothnia.

- It is hoped that in the years to come there will be more and more predatory fish in the area, and that fish migration will contribute to a stronger fish population even outside the boundaries of the nature reserve, writes the county administrative board.

Many regulations

The nature reserve receives a large number of regulations, which in most cases mean prohibitions of various kinds such as camping bans, prohibition of logging of trees and slopes which, for example, obscure the view from a home to the sea, reduced speeds for boat traffic and more.

Anyone who has views on the proposal and the management plan that exists for the nature reserve has until August last year to submit these to the county administrative board.