They are hailed for their omega-3 fatty acids and micronutrients, but Norway's salmon are not in the best of health themselves at the fish farms where they are bred. Almost 63 million salmon—a ...

Hima's CEO Sten Falkum in front of the Hima fish farm in Rjukan, Norway, on its opening day January 5, 2023. The Norwegian sustainable food company Hima Seafood launched on Friday its first land-based ...

Norway's fish farms are feeding their salmon an increasingly vegetarian diet in order to make their businesses more sustainable, but for these carnivorous pink-fleshed fish, all is not rosy. In ...

As a teenager, Ola Braanaas kept a few fish in an aquarium in his bedroom. Now, at 55, he keeps a lot more of them: about 1.2 million just in one windswept spot off the stunning coast of Norway, a ...

Norway’s seafood exports slumped by a record last month as problems at salmon farms dragged down the harvest in the world’s biggest producer of the farmed fish. Exports totaled 12.1 billion kroner ($1 ...

OSLO, March 28 (Reuters) - Norway's government aims to levy a 35% resource tax rate on the profits of salmon and trout farmers, it said on Tuesday, opens new tab, down from an initial proposal of 40% ...

Norwegian Mountain Salmon (NMS) has urged authorities to lift a two-year moratorium on land-based fish farming licenses, saying the freeze has damaged Norway's competitive position in global ...

THE RUGGED, chilly coast of northern Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle, is not usually thought of as prime agricultural land. But far down a dead-end road on the shores of Skjerstad Fjord sits Salten ...

Norway's centre-left government said on Wednesday it plans to increase taxes on electricity producers and fish farmers to raise an extra 33 billion crowns ($3 billion) a year. Adds detail, share ...

The orange dots show the locations of salmon farming facilities. The pie charts indicate the environmental status at the county level, classified according to the 2020 B-survey. A recent study on the ...