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Wild Norwegian salmon - angling and status

Wild Norwegian salmon - angling and status. The sunny side of the story. …..but sometimes other facts have a tendency to mess up the sunny stories…. Catches in the North-Atlantic is at a Historic low • Total catches reduced by 75 % • Norwegian catches reduced by 50 %

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Wild Norwegian salmon - angling and status

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  1. Wild Norwegian salmon- angling and status

  2. The sunny side of the story..

  3. …..but sometimes other facts have a tendency to mess up the sunny stories…..

  4. Catches in the North-Atlantic is at a Historic low • Total catches reduced by 75 % • Norwegian catches reduced by 50 % • 45 salmon-stocks in Norway is extinct • Approx. 150 of 401 of the remaining stocks is threatened, vulnerable or weak

  5. Pre-fishery abundance 1983 - 2007

  6. Gyrodactylus salaris Salmon lice Escapees Acid rain Hydropower Etc. Changes at sea Overfishing ? The challenges of the Norwegian wild salmon

  7. The Parliament Sets the frame that we work within The complex world of the salmon in the sea Department and Directorate of nature management and their county-offices - Responsible for the A-Salmon as a species Department and Directorate of Fisheries and their regional offices - Responsible to deal with escaped farmed salmon/salmon-lice/diseases Salmon farmers - FHL, NSL m.fl. Organisations -NJFF, NL, Greenpeace, WWF, NGSL, NNV, Bellona, NB, NSF, Frifo Norwegian Food Safety Authority - Responsible to ensure that the rules within their fields of responsibility are upheld – salmon-lice and deceases Scientific research institutions - NINA/HI/Niva/Rådgivende Biologer/VI m.fl. Ulike ”løse” interessegrupper - NASF, SOS, NMF, Pure Salmon Campaign, ERT, ”Villaksalliansen”, The Greens ++ NASCO/ICES - Recommendations on salmon-management

  8. NJFFs wiew on salmon management • Stronger and more firm actions against escapes from salmon-farms • Active measures to reduce salmon-lice from farms to a sustainable level • Habitat enhancement in rivers and a general focus on salmon when old hydropower regulations are renewed – as most of them will be towards 2022 • Increased actions to combat Gyrodactylus salaris • Continue to lime acidified salmon rivers at today's level • Increase and strengthen the research on salmon – general biology/ecology, environmental factors and interactions with farmed salmon • Regulate the catches in both the sea and in the rivers depending on the stock-status

  9. Which brings me to the most important river in Norway, and Finland • The river Tana/Teno • 1.200km river and tributaries with salmon reduced to 1.000km • Almost extinct, or extinct in some “tributaries” • PFA up to 600-tons • Approx. 1.5 mill smolts to reach this PFA • River-catch 70-250-tons (1972-2008). Average: 135-tons • Angling (60%) and drift-nets, gill-nets etc (40%) • Every scientific research done during the last ten years points towards a heavy over-exploitation in the sea outside and in the river combined

  10. What must be done? • Reduce sea-fishing with bag-nets and bend-nets in the Tana fjord (Norway) • Bag-limits for anglers • Reduction in the allowed period to fish with other fishing-gear in the river - both on the Norwegian and Finish side of the border • Preferably this must be done simultaneously in both countries, but if necessary one of the countries must lead the way towards a better controlled catch-regime!

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