- This is really fucking sad.

We already have the most regulated fishing.

We must constantly report everything we do what we think, when we go on the lake and when we return, how much we have in the boat.

And now they want to further reduce this, by stopping fishing at the time when the eel migrates the most, says Bo Olsson, eel fisherman,

Tightly regulated

Since 2018, eel fishing has been banned for three months between November and January.

A ban on eel fishing in October will soon be introduced in the EU.

- It is too tightly regulated since before, there is no room in me for more restrictions, he says.

Hydroelectric power plant behind the extinction of eels

The impact of fishing on the eel stock has decreased sharply and according to the Swedish Maritime Administration (HaV), only around one percent of the eels in the Baltic Sea are caught.

Bo Olsson believes that the pressure should be put on the waterworks, which he believes bears the great blame for old age.

Many rivers have been rebuilt which means that the eels do not get in or out, and in addition many eels die when they swim through the turbines.

Of playful white eels from Swedish lakes, rivers and streams, not many reach the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic to reproduce.

- This is about money and politics and it is very sad, for us it is a dead end at the same time as the hydropower plants have 20 years to restore the rivers, they are sitting on large capital and should get more pressure on them, says Bo Olsson .

Do not want to stop

But now that the eel is endangered and very vulnerable, why not stop fishing for eel?

- Stop fishing for eels ... should a farmer stop milking his cows?

We are proud of our profession, we live up to our job, we were born for this, says Bo Olsson.