We follow herring fishermen from Bondhamn between Sundsvall and Härnösand out to the fishing waters a few hours walk out on the Bothnian Sea outside Bremön.
But there are no hopes for big catches.
- This will be the last trip, after this trip we will reduce the trawling for this spring, says Hans Frölander who states that the fishing does not pay off, the catches have been halved compared to last year and even then the fishing was bad.
"Large-scale fishing cause"
He has been fishing for herring for many years and believes that it is the large-scale fishing with foreign trawlers going on out in the Bothnian Sea that is the culprit in the drama.
With boats that have the capacity to catch ten times what His boat catches during the same time period, the boats catch large amounts of fish.
In addition, they fish around the clock.
The fish becomes fishmeal
There is a difference between consumer fish and feed fish.
What Hans Frölander catches goes in principle exclusively to the sour herring industry locally, while the large boats fish with smaller meshes and send the entire catch abroad, where most is ground into fishmeal that becomes feed in fish farms.
- This is food, he says and looks at the herring they managed to get together after six hours of trawling.
The acid herring industry is affected
Hans Frölander doubts that it will be possible to deliver enough herring to the local sour herring producers this year.
- No, we will never do that, the salteries will find it difficult to get herring together, he says.
Follow the fishermen out on this spring's last trawling trip on the Bothnian Sea in the video above.