The government proposed protection of 15 waterways and eight fjords to protect wild salmon from farmed salmon.
While that might sound as though the authorities set out to limit the aquaculture industry to the advantage of the wild fish, the proposal actually has the opposite objective.
Farming of salmon and trout in Norway is finally ”approved” in Norway; the protection order proposal is an excellent example of a solution designed to enable wild salmon interests and fish farmers to coexist.
Public skirmishes between the two sides could have become the order of the day in the run-up to the government’s proposal.
