ALARM OVER REDUCTION OF LARGE COD
Both Swedish and Norwegian researchers fear that over fishing is to blame for the reduction of large coastal cod.

Gunn Hedberg

BAG LIMITS ON COD
The Norwegian government has proposed to set a size limit on coastal cod. This contains to all private fishing. The University of Troms has just realized a report regarding both the economic and environmental impact of tourist fishing here in Norway

North Troms flooded with dead salmon.
A resent case that has unfolded here in Norway has lead to some of the worst press the farming industry has had in many years. It has cost top jobs and precise repetitions!

Skot

Industrial-scale cod farming poses new threat to recovery of wild salmon
In a medieval castle perched high on the Argyll coast, Robin Neill Lochnell Malcolm of Duntrune spent yesterday plotting. For hundreds of years, his family raised men to fight for Scotland. But now Clan Malcolm is crusading against a new enemy: cod.

Stephen Khan, Scotland Editor

The Boys do it again!!
Here is the latest news from the fishbooking.com crew. Glen, Paul and I have found the late season to be an unexpected bonus.

Skot

Rainbows on the loose in Florų
FLORŲ: Western Norway a new report of escaped rainbow trout has landed on our desk. This particular farm in question located in Skorpefjorden Florų. The local fisheries officer has now opened fishing for these pests.

Skot

Over 6000 escaped salmon in Trųnderlag.

Nęrųy : It has been reported that at least 6000 salmon have escaped from a farm managed by Fjord Seafoods in North Trųnderlag

Skot

89 year old takes near record fish!
Every now and then a story lands on our desk that both makes you laugh and understand why it is we love fishing so much. Over the weekend a 89 year old grandmother caught a coalfish weighing a whopping 20 kilo.

Skot

120 ton of farmed fish on the loose.
Friday afternoon reports were flooding in of a large number of farmed fish in Alta fjord (Northern Norway). This was confirmed when a local owner reported that he had “lost” over 40,000 salmon from one of his holding pens.
skot

Mackerel are moving North.
An interesting little note from a young fisherman in the North ha landed on my desk. Eight year old Eirik Johansen and his family have spent their summer holiday in Narvik which is just a few hours South of Troms.
It was here that he caught a fish that seldom visits this region.

Skot

Chrysanthemums could save salmon farming industry!
Exacts from chrysanthemum may be the answer to one of the worst pests of both farmed and wild salmon, sea-lice. Doctorate student Karin Boxaspen from Bergen University has been studying the effects of natural exacts on lice infected salmon.

Daughter beats father hands down.
Last Sunday the family Håvardstun from Bergen sailed out for an enjoyable fishing trip in their small boat. Their plan was to compete in a local fishing contest. Armed with heavy jigs and rubber squid imitations they were ready to land the winner. Hilda their 6-year old daughter insisted on joining in the fun. So it was here the story beings.

Tractor fishing for Halibut
With help of a tractor and a few mates Carl Einar Isachsen managed to drag a monster halibut to land. It weighed 248 kilograms. Not a bad day on the beach.

Fish farms defy laws.
The has been yet another farm that has “lost” its’ stock of fish here on the West Coast. Fishermen have been out by the dozen to taken advantage of the free fishing for (farmed) salmon in Bjųrnefjorden.

Warning against farmed Atlantic salmon
Seattle(WA),USA: The California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is considered by many to be the leading aquarium in the US, is advising consumers to avoid Atlantic farmed salmon and cod in its 2002 seafood guide released last week. 250,000 consumers have so far received the list.

Fishing organization will stop commercial tourist fishing.
Flakstad. Every year tourist catch over 15000 ton of fish here in Norway. This is about one third of the total catch of the Northern fleet. Now the Norwegian Coastal fishing club is asking the government to help control this problem.

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