Project country Sweden

Swedish Coastline

Sweden has the longest coastline of all the Baltic countries, over 2400 km, with a variety of coastal ecosystems such as archipelagos, sheltered bays, cliffs and sandy beaches. Since the Swedish part of the Baltic Sea stretches all the way up into the Gulf of Bothnia, the species composition varies a lot due to the reduced salinity, which is only 2 per thousand, compared to 8 per thousand in the southern parts. Like the entire Baltic Sea, the Swedish part is also affected by eutrophication, hasardous substances, overfishing and dead bottoms. Around the island of Gotland, there are large oxygen-free areas the size of the whole of Denmark, which basically contain no life.