From January 1st, 2010 the regulations regarding minimum sizes for salt water fish will apply to sports and tourist fishing in Norway. All sport fishers should therefore study the minimum size that apply in good time before the next fishing trip. The regulations can be found bellow.

Mackerel that is caught with hooks or nets and saithe for your own consumption or for use as bait is exempted from the regulation of minimum size. This will among other things mean that children’s sport fishing from or near the shore will not be hindered by the new regulations.

I will be blunt. In a few years Norwegian Atlantic salmon will be a thing of the past. The reason is simply that we produce far more farmed salmon than the Eco-systems in our fjords can hold. The result is that farmed salmon is spreading paracites like salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) to both salmon and trout in such numbers that the smolt never reaches the open sea, and thus never returns to spawn.

The result are clear. This years salmon season has been branded a catastrophe in the Norwegian sport fishing community. For the 2010 season salmon rivers in entire counties will probably be closed next year as the number of fish ready to spawn in some rivers are down to a hand full.