13.09.2011

This year’s European Seafood Exposition and Seafood Processing Europe at the beginning of May is proof that the worldwide seafood industry is back on the right track. At what is the world’s largest seafood gathering there ...

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08.04.2011

In the 1970s, Japan did not import a single piece of fish and it did not use salmon for sushi. That all started to change in the 1980s after a Norwegian seafood delegation visited the Asian country and Project Japan was fo...

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04.04.2011

For the seventh consecutive year, Norway has set new records in seafood exports. The country sold an unprecedented NOK 53.8 billion worth of fish and shellfish abroad in 2010. The numbers reveal the growing importance of C...

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04.04.2011

In the spring of last year, Norway’s transport industry realized the country’s seafood industry had a huge problem. Norway had just implemented a requirement for a catch certificate on all Norwegian fish, but it still lack...

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04.04.2011

A new study by Norway’s Institute of Marine Research shows that sea lice and escaped salmon pose the most important risk factors to the sustainability of Norwegian fish farming. The government has taken a proactive approac...

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04.04.2011

In 2010, more than 1 million tonnes of salmon and trout were produced in the clear cold waters of Norway’s deep fjords, an important milestone in the 40-year-long history of the aquaculture industry. At the same time, the ...

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02.04.2011

Recent times have proven the importance of consistently seeking ways to connect the strong Norwegian seafood industry with the global market. A strong contributor to this process is Innovation Norway which focuses on activ...

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06.01.2011

The way to create such a success is to make the different milieus in the aquaculture industry visible, including everything within technology, biology, finance and national and international research communities.

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14.12.2010

The year is 1969, and two Norwegian brothers, Ove and Sivert Grøntvedt, have an idea that’s so simple and practical that over the next 40 years it will revolutionize the world of fish farming. The pair built an octagonal f...

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29.10.2010

The Norwegian fishing industry delivered 2.5 million tonnes of live caught fish worth NOK 11.1 billion in 2009, while another 958,054 tonnes of farm-raised fish and shellfish brought a record NOK 22 billion. These results ...

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