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The protection of Storsjöodjuret
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At the beginning of the century the attempts to capture The Great Lake Monster declined and in the beginning of the 1960 the first demands of protecting The Monster by law started to be heard. The tourist information bureau raised the issue and the 22 of January 1986 the county administrative board of Jämtland decided to protect The Great Lake Monster by law. From this point and forward it was prohibited to ”kill, harm, and capturing animals of the spices living The Great Lake Monster”. It was also prohibited to remove or ”harm the eggs, roes or nest of The Great Lake Monster”.
Before the protection of The Great Lake Monster together with the upcoming 200- year jubilee of Östersund 1986 the county administrative board of Jämtland asked for a consideration from a number of authorities. The question asked was how the different authorities’ point of view was regarding Storsjöodjuret and a possible protection of the spices.
The society of The Great Lake Monster friend answered that they thought a protection by law was an obsolete way of using protective measures. The entire habitat of the species must be protected.
Jämtland County museum responded by looking back towards the prehistorical time and claimed that it most likely had to be some sort of sea serpent.
The owners of the fischwater organization rejected the statement of The Great Leak Monster being a beast. No damage had, according to known documentation, been made to either life or property during the last 200 years. The association recommended a protection with reference to the governments legalisation of all handheld tools for fishing with neutralizes the free zone the owner of the fishwater had given to The Monster within the 300-meter boundary.
The representative of the National Environment Protection Board at the county administrative board of Jämtland made a reservation against the suggested protection and meant that the protection should be for the whole biotope, the habitat of The Great Lake, instead of only the spices of The Great Lake Monster.
In the year of 2002 a person applied for exemption from the prohibition to gather the eggs of Storsjöodjuret. The environmental conservation court stated that the protection that the county administrative board made was in conflict with the way the government demands objectiveness. They meant that a ”scientifically non verified spices” been protected. 2005 did the legal division of the government announced that they shared the opinion of the environmental conservation court and meant that The Great Lake Monster not could be protected by law. The county administrative board then chose to revise the protection in 2006 and annul the decision from 1986. After a legal trial of the protection in 2005 the county administrative board of Jämtland was forced to annul the protection when there does not exist any physical evidence of the existence of The Great Lake Monster.
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