Russian salmon farmers buy Norwegian smolt company
Business tycoon Maksim Vorobyov and his Russian Aquaculture acquires Villa Smolt AS, a Norwegian company with license to produce an
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$50 million in federal funds headed to Alaska for fish and wildlife services
WASHINGTON — Alaska will receive more than $50 million this year from the Interior Department through a fund for protecting
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What shallow lakes are telling us about the changing Arctic climate
Permafrost changes are among the most alarming consequences of warming Arctic temperatures. All across the Arctic, the shifts in how permafrost
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Finland: Rebranding ‘superfoods of the North’
For years, Finnish root vegetables and freshwater fish stood neglected in the grocery aisles, as younger generations ignored them because
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Russian salmon infection no threat to Norway
But there is a clear need for better cooperation between the two countries’ aquaculture control authorities, they maintain. Norwegian experts
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Project brings salmon back to Swedish river
Some 15 years ago, officials were alarmed by the rapid decline of wild salmon populations in Sweden’s Vindel River but
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Alaska: Bristol Bay sockeye’s prey quality affected by ocean temperature
Having healthy and plentiful returns of salmon each season is an important issue to subsistence, sport and commercial fishermen alike.
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Alaska: Mining corporation a no-show in court as environmental criminal case moves forward
An Outside mining company accused of polluting salmon streams in Western Alaska failed to show up this week for an initial federal
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Ice-Blog: Food and sex in Svalbard’s icy waters?
This is my first post from the Polar Marine Night expedition, from the Kongsfjord in Svalbard. On the flight from
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Unusual species in Alaska waters indicate parts of Pacific warming dramatically
A giant hotspot in the North Pacific Ocean may help explain why a massive ocean sunfish was spotted in Prince
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Fishing ban hits parts of Sweden’s west coast
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management has imposed a three-week fishing ban off parts of the country’s western
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Record numbers for Swedish wild salmon
Salmon are surging up Sweden’s rivers in record numbers. In the biggest river, Tornea älv in Norrbotte, over 100,000 salmon
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The importance of Alaska’s Arctic lakes
The tens of thousands of lakes that dot the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope are so similar that almost all
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Court halts wind farm in Sweden
Sweden’s Land and Environmental Court of Appeal rejected on Wednesday a proposed wind farm off the coast of Falkenberg after
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Dairy leak in Sweden turns river’s waters milky white
Around 15,000 liters of milk spilled into the Tolånga river in Sjöbo municipality, southern Sweden on Friday, after a pipe
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