Vramsåns mynning

Welcome to Vramsåns mynning Nature Reserve

A new landscape emerged from the water in 1775, as the spring flood of the river Helge found a new discharge into the sea and the water level of the river and Lake Hammarsjön sank by 60 to 70 centimetres. Along the lake and river, land that was below the surface rose to become riparian meadows, which have been used for haymaking and grazing ever since.

Bird haven

Today, the riparian meadows around Vramsåns mynning
are kept open by grazing. They teem with life in autumn and spring when migrating birds stop on the way to and from their wintering areas. Typical coastal meadow waders such as curlew and snipe breed on the meadows together with ducks, e.g. shoveler, teal and garganey.

Wels catfish and mussels

Wels catfish, the giant among freshwater fish, was reintroduced into the river Helge in the late 1990s. Today, it reproduces naturally here. Wels catfish of all sizes thrive in the shade provided by vegetation along the river. Outside Vramsåns mynning is a mussel bed containing the endangered thick shelled river mussel.

Regulations

Within Vramsåns mynning Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• damage fixed natural objects or surface formations,
  
• dig up plants, or damage wood-living fungi,
  
• deliberately disturb wildlife,
  
• bring dogs or other pets unless on a leash,
  
• put up boards, signs, posters, or similar, or make inscriptions,
  
• ride.
  
  Furthermore, without permission from the County Administrative Board it is forbidden to:
  
• collect invertebrates, such as insects or molluscs,
  
• place out so called geocaches or other foreign objects.