Activist Kurt Oddekalv reported the company for salmon escapes.

Berg-Hansen owns around 10 percent of the family company SinkaBerg-Hansen, which IntraFish in 2008 ranked among the world’s 30 largest salmon farming firms. Last year, the company did not make the list.

Until the "bomb" exploded on her first day at work this week, she was one of the most anonymous cabinet ministers.

“I knew that he and the environmental organization had reported our company after an accident occurred causing an escape a month ago,” she said.