There has  been an accident involving four Lithuanian fishing tourists off Værøy in Lofoten today several newspapers reports. None say anything about what happened but they were in the water, as they where rescued by fishing vessel “Kari Anne” and a SAR helicopter from the SAR station in Bodø. Unfortunately one of the four lost his life. It was around 11am when the fishing vessel “Kari Anne” reported to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre that it had rescued two people who was found floating in [...]

The German tourist Günther Kinnerman, has cought a 223 kg Halibut in Magerøysundet off North Cape, Norway. According to NRK (Google translate link) the fight lasted for two hours and he had it up twice before he managed to secure the fish to the boat on the third attempt. The fish weight in at 223kg (491,6Lb) and was  256cm long. NRK reprots that the old record belonged to a Dane, at 208kg. That halibut was 202 and was caught in Lofoten. But only a couple [...]

A new law strengthening the rights of commercial fjord fisher men in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, the three northern districts of Norway, will ban the trawlers from the fjords. No more will the huge ocean going factory trawlers come into the fjords and leave them devoid of life. 10-15 years ago they came to my fjord. Where I spent my summers fishing for cod and coal fish from my grandfathers rowing dingy as a kid, or if luck would have it, I could get out [...]