Kukkola Rapids
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Kukkola Rapids (in Finnish Kukkolankoski and in Swedish Kukkolaforsen) is a 3.5 km long rapids on the Tornio River on the Finnish-Swedish border with a drop height of 14 metres. It is the longest free-flowing rapids in Finland. On the Finnish side of Kukkola Rapids there is the village of Kukkola in Tornio and the village of Kukkola in Haparanda in Sweden. The distance from Kukkola Rapids to the centre of Tornio is about 14 kilometres.
Fishing has been the most important livelihood in the Kukkola village in the past. Local fishers developed their own fishing technique for catching whitefish - flagging (in Finnish lippoaminen). It is thought that whitefish flagging began as early as the 13th century, when Kukkola Rapids began to be inhabited. Fishing rights were divided and further distributed on the basis of land ownership.
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Kukkola Rapids in May
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Whitefish catcher
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Old storehouses and fish-traps on the Finnish side
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Old storehouses and fish-traps
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Fishing rack
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