Category Archives: News

The Lakes Exchange – Day One

November 20, 2014

GAP2’s Dr Alfred Sandstrom provides the first update on the Lake Vattern – Lake Constance exchange trip, centred around European whitefish lake fisheries

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GAP2 in Gothenburg: Presenting at SwAM

April 22, 2014
Gone fishin'

Dr Alfred Sandstrom provides a round-up of a GAP2 seminar presented at the Swedish Agency for Water and Marine Management.

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36 Months On: Progress review from the Swedish case study

March 20, 2014

An update on the on-going work of the GAP2 case study at Lake Vattern, in Sweden, covering developments over the last twelve months.

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Fishery co-management; a sustainable way to develop fisheries?

February 12, 2014

“Fishery co-management; a sustainable way to develop fisheries? A multi-disciplinary assessment of the fisheries in Lake Vättern, Sweden” is a new piece of research, conducted and published by Master’s student Audrey van Mastrigt.
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Axes & Horse Heads: GAP2 Goes Deep

March 21, 2013
The Fishermen on Lake Vättern

GAP2’s Swedish case study investigates the mysterious differences in spawning times of the whitefish of Lake Vättern.
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Swedish Fishermen Prove Selective Gear Works

December 17, 2012
The selective fishing gear on trial.

Over the past two months, Swedish fishermen have been trialing a new type of selective fishing gear on the icy waters of Lake Vättern. The results are now in!
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Swedish Fishermen Reveal Whitefish Phenomenon

November 29, 2012
Deep-spawning whitefish in Lake Vättern © Alfred Sandström

The existence of a special type of whitefish, known to fishermen for 100s of years, has been revealed to scientists for the first time during the GAP2 project.

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Will it work? Trialling new gear on Lake Vattern.

October 19, 2012

Scientists and fishermen have been working together to trial a new type of fishing gear, in the quest for a selective whitefish fishery.
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Meetings, Field Sampling Trips

October 3, 2011

“More than half of the Lake Vattern fishermen offered to take active part in the project, each bringing new ideas regarding preferred sampling design and fish behavior” The first period of the project has been focussed on communicating with fishermen …
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