Tag: salmon
Chlorine leak killed 96,000 salmon
Alarms were ringing Tuesday after 15,000 liters of chlorine leaked from a fish farm into the Alta Fjord in Northern Norway. An estimated 96,000...
Norwegian shares crash in market dive
Salmon, oil and Norwegian Air shares were among those battered on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) Monday. OSE's main index ended down 2.12 percent...
Great start to wild salmon fishing season
Norwegian rivers, swelled by record snowmelt, have already yielded some huge wild salmon and trout, and this year, Norwegian sportsfishers have the rivers to...
Government drops ‘salmon tax’ plan
Profitable salmon producers and other fish-farming operations won't have to share more of their wealth with other Norwegians after all. A proposal to raise...
State won’t reel in fish-farming tax
A Norwegian professor hooked a new proposal this week to more heavily tax the country's highly lucrative fish-farming operations. Norway's conservative government and a...
More deadly algae found near Tromsø
Salmon producers in Northern Norway were bracing for more losses after dead fish were found this week in four fish farming facilities around Tromsø....
Salmon producers don’t want bailout
When Norwegian farmers were hit by a drought last year, they quickly demanded financial aid from the government and got it, to the tune...
Algae kills 10,000 tons of salmon
Salmon farmers in Northern Norway are in despair, following the natural but deadly blossoming of an algae that's literally been choking their fish. Wild...
Royals confronted again, now over oil
For the second time in as many weeks, members of Norway's royal family have been confronted while abroad with what's seen as the hypocrisy...
Royals confronted over salmon farms
King Harald and Queen Sonja experienced an unusual end to their six-day state visit to Chile over the weekend, when they were suddenly surrounded...
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