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Norway exported seafood worth NOK 3.7 billion in August, an increase of NOK 667 million compared with the same month last year. The export of salmon constitutes most of the increase.
Norwegian divers have found the wreck of the British trawler "Laforey" which stranded off the western coast of Norway nearly 60 years ago. Twenty UK fishermen lost their lives in the wreck.
The value of exported seafood from Norway in July reached NOK 3.8 billion. This is an increase by 15 per cent compared with July last year. The growth has been continous over the past 9 months.
Norway is critical to what it calls irresponsible fishing for mackerel by Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and underlines the ban on landings of mackerel in Norway by vessels from the two nations.
The Spanish harvesting company Pesquera Ancora becomes a wholly owned subsidiary after Norwegian company Aker Seafoods recquired the remaining 40 percent share of the Spanish company.
The value of the export of salmon from Norway in May reached NOK 2.5 billion, the highest value ever for salmon for the month of May, according to figures from the Export Council for Fish.
The oil industry is now in the process of hiring, training and equipping 30-40 larger fishing vessels as part of the oil protection measures to be put into service on the coast of Finnmark county.
