Can Norway limit the size of a company's salmon farming operations?

This summer, Marine Harvest received endorsement from the  European Free Trade Agreement Surveillance Authority (EFTASA) that Norwegian authorities cannot limit a company's percentage of the total number of ownership of production licenses to 25 percent -- but Norwegian authorities are refusing to budge.

In a reply to EFTASA, the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs wrote:  “There is not a shadow of doubt that farmed salmon and trout fall outside the products covered by the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement."

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