Farming

Dubai, the Maldives, Florida – and now Norway. Underwater restaurants are usually confined to exotic destinations – but a village on the south coast of Norway is down to join …

In a resolution approved on September 12, members of the European Parliament called on Norway to immediately end its whale hunting. The MEPs also called on Brussels to ensure that …

DHL Global Forwarding is accelerating Norway’s seafood supply chain by shipping live crabs and other seafood on dedicated weekly flights from Oslo to Asia and Northern America. The express giant …

NORWAY and China yesterday moved closer towards restoring normal fish exporting relations following a visit to Beijing by Norway’s fisheries minister. Per Sandberg (pictured) led a delegation of 120 seafood executives and …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of  Viet Nam and the Norwegian Embassy organised a business seminar on sustainable aquaculture in southern Can Tho City on Saturday. Co-chaired by Tran …

A new food trade agreement has been struck between the EU and Norway. The deal will deliver useful openings for the meat and dairy sectors. Norway will open a new 1,600-tonnes …

Head of Iran’s Veterinary Organization Mehdi Khalaj and Norway Chief Veterinary Officer Kristina Landsverk signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to broaden veterinary cooperation between the two countries. Iran’s Ambassador …

Norway is planning a mass cull of reindeer to stop the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. Experts have said an entire herd must be killed off to prevent the disease …

Washington, DC—(April 3, 2017) — A coalition of international whale protection organizations today strongly condemned the start of Norway’s 2017 whaling season, which began on April 1. The coalition believes the …

It has been a busy winter period for the Norwegian Coast Guard with one of its patrol vessels tasked to two separate incidents involving a disabled ex-buoy tender and a …

Organic products from Norway and Iceland including Norwegian organic salmon, can again be imported to the European Union and duly marketed as abiding by the EU’s organic rules following the …

The general cargo ship Nordfjord ran aground off Kopervik, Norway. The freighter was en route to Sandnes in Norway with 5,500 tonnes of sand, but left the fairway and contacted …

Norwegian exports of cod to Portugal rose by 9% year on year in 2016 to €271.4 million, totalling 48,603 tonnes, the Norwegian Fishing Council (Norge) said. Portugal’s national dish is …

Norway is moving to allow recreational hunting of its “critically endangered” population of wolves, prompting furious condemnation from animal rights campaigners. Around 65 of the animals live in the Scandanavian …

Minister of Fisheries of Norway, Per Sandberg, on Tuesday welcomed expansion of Iran-Norway cooperation in various fisheries and aqua culture domains. Sandberg made the remarks in a meeting with Iran’s …

Mongolian MP, L.Munkhbaatar MP has attended a business forum of the Norway-Mongolia Friendship Community, which has taken place in Oslo. The business forum aimed at boosting business cooperation and drawing …

During the 66thmeeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), conservation organizations openly criticized the fact that actions against commercial whaling are absent from the IWC agenda. A petition directed at …

Norway exported seafood worth NOK 6.6 billion in July. This is an increase of 15 per cent or NOK 882 million compared with July 2015. So far this year, seafood …

FAO and Norway have agreed to continue an already fruitful cooperation in the strategic areas of fisheries, the right to food, climate-smart agriculture, deforestation, gender equity and food loss and …

Greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by about 13 percent from 1990, and in 2013 amounted to just over 8 percent of the Norwegian greenhouse gas emissions. A Project Group reviewing …

Norway is now the world’s leading whaling nation, killing more whales in the past two years than Japan and Iceland combined. A new report released today calls on the international …

A team of international researchers has diagnosed a potential heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) in farmed Atlantic salmon samples collected from a BC aquaculture facility in 2013-2014. This research, …

Researchers led by a Canadian government scientist have diagnosed potential heart and skeletal muscle inflammation in farmed salmon from British Columbia province, the Canadian fisheries ministry announced on Friday. The …

An independent biologist is saying “finally” after the Department of Fisheries and Oceans admitted it has detected a potential disease in farmed fish. “This is truly astonishing. I’m actually thunderstruck …