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Prices plunge in season’s first lobster haul

Sweden's first lobster haul snapped up 28,000 kronor ($4,300) per kilogramme at auction on Tuesday, a drastic drop from the first catch of last season which pulled in a record 102,000 kronor.

Published: 24 September 2013 11:19 CEST
Prices plunge in season's first lobster haul

Lobster fishing resumed in Gothenburg on Monday with bargain hunters heading for the famed Gothenburg fish auction to claw a piece of the action.

The decision as to which lobster crate goes under the hammer first was determined by a lottery among the boats that hauled in the first catch on Monday.

This year the honour fell to the Kungsback GG749 which grabbed five lobsters weighing a total of 2.4 kilos. The cost of 28,000 kronor per kilo for the first batch was well short of last year’s record and also lower than that of 2011.

Prices were lowered dramatically after the first auction with the lobsters being sold for around 330 kronor per kilogramme thereafter.

Per-Arne Korshag made the winning bid for the first two lobsters and intends to give them as a gift to some close friends.

“The big one is is going to Lund hospital and the surgeon Mikael Eriksson. He saved me from cancer ten years. Today I am in great health and for that is worth a lot more than 28,000 kronor,” told the TT news agency.

He added that he will give the smaller lobster to a friend who gave him a bank loan in 1980 to build a smoke house.

Sweden’s lobster fishing seasons runs through the end of April.

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POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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