Category: Food & Beverage
Separate facts from fiction about farm-raised salmon and see how the Norwegian aquaculture industry sets the standard for high-quality, safe and sustainably farmed salmon. Aquaculture will play a major role in feeding the growing population. And Norway’s aquaculture industry ranks among the world’s leading programs. Every day, 14 million meals of Norwegian Salmon are consumed […]
Source: From Norway
Category: Seafood
Norway exported 676,000 tonnes of seafood with a value of NOK 23.7 billion in the first quarter. This is a volume decline of 8 per cent and a decline of 2 per cent or NOK 488 million compared with the first quarter last year. “This is the best quarter for cod ever, with a total […]
Source: Seafood.no
Category: Seafood
Norway exported 198,000 tonnes of seafood worth NOK 7.7 billion in January. An increase in volume of 23,000 tonnes or 13 per cent and a NOK 143 million or 2 per cent rise in value compared with January last year. «The growth in value seen in Norwegian seafood exports in January is due to whitefish […]
Source: Norwegian Seafood
Category: Seafood
Norway-based Nordic Aquafarms will develop one of the largest land-based salmon farms, 39 miles southwest of Bangor, on 40 acres near Belfast, Maine. The area has abundant access to sea- and freshwater resources that provide a good match with land-based aquaculture requirements, company officials said. Maine was chosen for its pristine location, cold water conditions, its […]
Source: Area Development
Category: Government
By Kåre R. Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the United States. “What would we have done without the sea – should we have carried the boats?” This old joke among fishermen in northern Norway tells us something about the importance of the oceans — for the fishermen themselves, obviously, but also for the rest of us. At the World Economic Forum in Davos last […]
Source: Norway.no