Finnish attention has been drawn eastwards since Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny s return and subsequent arrest. Last week President
Vladimir Putin, telling reporters, I had a long discussion with Putin and we went through the Navalny situation.
Niinistö previously received thanks for his help in getting Russian officials to allow Navalny to fly to Germany for medical treatment.
The detention of protesters including Navalny s wife
Pekka Haavisto tweeting arrests of peaceful protesters in Russia, including Yulia Navalnaya, are not acceptable. Navalnya has since been released.
Finnish media has consequently been transfixed by the drama in Russia and the reaction of Finnish leaders.
The Natural Resources Institute believes the potentially harmful fish were brought into the country illegally.
Bitterlings originate from the northern Black Sea.
Image: Lauri Urho / LUKE
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) said on Thursday that two new non-native species of fish have been found in a pond in southwest Finland.
The Natural Resources Institute suspects that the fish were illegally brought into the country and released into the wild.
The species, which have never been reported in Finland before, are the common nase (
Chondrostoma nasus) and the European bitterling (
Rhodeus amarus). The fish were found during a population study of another alien species, the pumpkinseed (
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Salmon from upstream reaches of the two northernmost Baltic rivers are different from downstream salmon. A recent study found that upstream salmon from the large Tornio and Kalix Rivers in Finland and Sweden are genetically distinct and migrate at different times and ages than their downstream counterparts. However, there seems to be no such distinction between salmon from these two neighbouring rivers.
Traffic is busy below the surface of the Baltic Sea and rivers flowing into it. Starting in early summer, mature salmon migrate from the sea into their home rivers to spawn. The study by the University of Helsinki, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) found that salmon destined to spawn far upstream entered the Tornio (Torne in Swedish) River at an earlier date during their spawning migration.