Hundreds of thousands of salmon swim against the current in southeast Norway -- in massive indoor tanks away from the nearest river as the controversial industry increasingly embraces greener land-based facilities.
Chinese consumers have almost completely stopped buying imported salmon from Norway after a coronavirus outbreak at a fish market in Beijing was blamed on the fish.
The world's largest producer of farmed salmon, Norway's Mowi, said Wednesday it produced more fish than ever in 2019 and expected to increase production again in 2020, despite difficulties in China caused by the new coronavirus.
Millions of farmed salmon have died in northern Norway due to an algae bloom that the authorities are struggling to bring under control, the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate has said.
Norway made a record amount on its salmon sales last year, helping to partially offset a drop in oil revenues, the main engine of the country's economy, data showed Wednesday.
In a peaceful bay off Norway's Hitra island, massive nets teem with salmon destined for dinner tables worldwide -- an export boon for the Nordic nation that comes with a long list of environmental side-effects.
Norway registered record fish exports in 2015 thanks to a weaker currency which compensated for a Russian food embargo, an industry body said on Tuesday.
With exports to China still struggling in the wake of the Nobel prize debacle, Norway’s salmon industry is making inroads into an unlikely Asian market: North Korea.
Norwegian vets are up in arms about a “scientifically illiterate” European directive that mandates the use of homeopathic medicines as the first line of treatment for organic farmed fish.
A total of 57 countries have been approved as founding members of a new Chinese-backed infrastructure bank, Beijing said on Wednesday, including Norway, despite relations being in a diplomatic deep freeze since a Chinese dissident won a Nobel Prize.
Enough of Swedish snidery over their country’s bigger industries and corporations. According to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, “Salmon is Norway’s IKEA”.
Farmed Norwegian salmon - repeatedly criticized for its supposed effects on health - can be safely eaten even by pregnant women, a new report by experts said on Monday.
A planned visit by the Dalai Lama has Oslo torn between its will to warm up frozen ties with China and warnings from the public not to compromise its stance on human rights, writes AFP's Pierre-Henry Deshayes.
The president of the Norwegian parliament has defended his decision not to meet the Dalai Lama when he comes to Oslo next month, arguing that to do so would destroy years of painstaking work to mend relations with China.
Norway's parliament has been accused of cowardice after it declined to offer an official meeting to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, when he visits Norway next month.
More than 47,000 salmon have escaped their cages in the Ålfjorden north of Stavanger, fuelling environmentalist fears that Norway's salmon farming industry will destroy wild salmon stocks and weaken the natural gene pool.
Marine Harvest, the Norwegian salmon-farming company, has more than doubled its profits over the past three months, as tight demand led to soaring prices for its products.
The Dalai Lama has announced plans to visit Norway at the start of May, adding new complications to Norway's efforts to mend its troubled relationship with China.
Norway's third-largest salmon farming company SalMar plans to start rearing fish out to sea using constructions based on oil platforms, each of which could house eight times as many salmon as conventional cages.
