The Board of Grundsjöprojektet gathered at the entrance to Grundsjön. From left Helgi Jonsson, Långå FVOF, Janne Gabrielsson, Härjedalen, Marco Lightning Fortum Sweden AB, Joakim Svensson, County Board and Torgny Gunnarsson, Särvsjöns community association.
Grundsjörödingen ™ is known as interesting sport fishing and exclusive food fish, related to Vättergatan Charles with a genetic heritage that makes it an official rating "very worthy of protection, large adult genetics, Biodiversity". It is an attraction for anglers, in both winter and summer.
Grundsjörödingen belongs to the few remaining trout strains reproduce in the mountain chain lakes. The vision is to forever "to the next ice age" preserve Grundsjörödingen in place in Grundsjön.
When Basic lakes settled for electricity production in the early 1970s allowed to transfer from a nearby system where there are whitefish, which now threatens char. Rules The level of differences also lead to freezing rödingrom and reduced biological production in the riparian zone. To counteract the damage driven Grundsjöprojektet then 2006 including the reduction of fishing for whitefish and support the cultivation of char. Fortum Sweden AB, Härjedalen, Långå FVOF, County Administrative Board of Jämtland and Särvsjöns community association is funding the project and are active partners in cooperation.
The measures are mainly based on reducing fishing for whitefish, support measures through the release of fertilized rum by Grundsjöröding, control and monitoring. The annual investment amounts to approximately 500 000 SEK. Allan Blomkvist, Vice Chairman in long FVOF is operative project. Fisheries Consultant Per-Arne Holt Seeland has for several years until 2019 been involved in the project as a specialist and has developed methods for the directed fishing for whitefish using liquid deepened. The precision of phishing involves the catch is 97 percent whitefish and only three percent other fish. Hence is barely one percent char, which is a very good result.
Grundsjöprojektets time horizon is ten years with annual updating and extension. In support of the work, the project has access to scientific advice.
It caught whitefish shipped to processing. Among them are Härjedalen, through their environmental awareness and ecological approach, major user of the fish in their dining rooms we schools and elderly homes.
Project Board consists of representatives from each of the project owners. Helgi Jonsson Chairman.
Read more about the Grundsjö project under that heading, at the top of this website.