LIFE Lophelia

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Coral reef growing at Väderöarna: ‘Encouraging’

In the Life Lophelia project, 160 artificial reefs have been deployed into the depths of the Skagerrak. During the final conference, around forty participants got to see both the reefs and living eye coral at Väderöarna, just outside Grebbestad.
‘The goal is to have large, living and healthy coral reefs in Swedish waters, similar to those found in Tisler, Norway,’ says Anita Tullrot, project manager at the County Administrative Board.

2025-09-17

Time for the final conference!

The LIFE Lophelia project is now in its sixth and final year and it is time for the final conference on September 2-3, 2025. The conference will be held at Tanumstrand just outside Grebbestad, on the Swedish west coast.

2025-03-27

Concrete reefs for corals finally in place in the Koster Sea

All 160 artificial reefs that will save Sweden’s coral reefs are finally in place in the Koster Sea. Launching them has taken longer than expected, since the project was affected by the windy summer weather. Now there will be a few years of anxious waiting before they know whether the experiment has succeeded or not. But until then, the reefs will be a hotel for other marine animals, such as fish, squat lobsters, and sea anemones.

2024-10-31

Concrete stars to save Sweden’s coral reefs

Now the concrete reefs are being launched to save Sweden’s coral reefs. 132 star-shaped reef structures will be placed in six locations in the Koster and Väderö fjords. The goal is for small coral larvae to find their way there and start building new living reefs.

2024-06-13

Spawn to settling in lab

We have finished up another season of coral spawning (see video below) and experiments with larvae. The larvae have given us a hint on what

2023-08-10

Analyses of settling panels

We have now started to retrieve some of the settling panels that now have been sitting on the sea floor for one and a half

2022-11-14

Video about the project

A five minutes video introducing the project in English is now available on the webb, under Om projektet. The video was made to an online

2021-05-24