During the summer, there have been alarming reports from the Baltic Sea that the herring is running out. The cod is long gone. The party is over. Of all the world’s fish stocks, 90% are fully exploited or threatened with collapse. The waters are being emptied.
But there is a sea where there is enough fish for everyone, people and fish, whales and birds. In northern Norway, the water is teeming with life.
Thousands of cod heads are hanging to dry on the quay off Husöy, a small island in the outer coastal strip of northern Norway. They are to be shipped to Africa, because
We are going to the northern Norwegian fjord Kvänangen approximately 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Fishing boats from all over the Norwegian west coast come to this particular fjord during some intense winter months to fish huge amounts of herring. But there are also other creatures that want the herring. In addition to a number of predatory fish and gulls, an unusually high number of killer whales and large humpback whales have also become increasingly numerous. Sometimes there may be conflict
The Norwegian government has awarded 53 new licences for oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea.
