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fisheries.no is Norway’s official site for information about seafood safety, fisheries and aquaculture management. Fisheries.no is provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs in cooperation with the Directorate of Fisheries, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, the Institute of Marine Research and the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research.

Safe & healthy seafood // 08.12.2011 //

In 2006, the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) presented a comprehensive assessment of fish and other seafood in the Norwegian diet entitled “Fish and seafood consumption in Norway – benefits and risks”.

Safe & healthy seafood // 01.10.2010 //

Seafood is a natural part of a balanced diet and has beneficial effects on our health. It contains high levels of several important nutrients not naturally present in other foods and thus helps us maintain a good nutritional status.

Resource management // 13.03.2010 //

Resource control in Norway is directed at the entire chain, from the point in time when the fish is caught in the sea, through its storage and sale and to its export abroad. The dominant goal of marine resource management is to aid a sound fisheries policy founded on long-term thinking, profitability and sustainable harvesting of marine life.

Resource management // 18.10.2011 //

Norway and Russia share the stocks of cod, haddock and capelin in the Barents Sea. Close cooperation between the two countries ensures a rational joint management of these fishery resources. Bilateral cooperation in the fisheries sector was first institutionalized in the 1950s in the field of marine research, formalizing collaboration in marine research that already had a 50-year history.

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Fish and seafood consumption in Norway

Health effects of seafood

Sustainable harvesting

Fisheries collaboration with Russia

The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs