Current efforts to reduce the negative impacts of seals on fishing include protective hunting and the development of new equipment (Lunneryd & Konigson, 2017, Naturvardsverket, 2017a, 2017b). Participants at the workshop commented that seal-proof equipment is expensive for small-scale household fishers and that protective hunting from a boat in open water is extremely difficult. Naatamo is an Atlantic Salmon river with its source in Finland, flowing northward into Norway ending in the Barents Sea.