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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Arctic MP named to federal cabinet in Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 17:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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The newly-elected MP from Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has been named minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.

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The Umba River (pictured above) on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. An outbreak of the fungal infection Saprolegnia has affected salmon in several of the region's rivers. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Norway) General Norway 

Russian salmon infection no threat to Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 18:52 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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But there is a clear need for better cooperation between the two countries’ aquaculture control authorities, they maintain. Norwegian experts

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Export of clipfish from Norway increased 29 in the first half of the year. (Trude Pettersen/Barents Observer)
Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Record value for Norway’s seafood exports

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 17:51 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 18:23
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The export values of Norwegian seafood recorded in the first half of 2015 is the highest ever, amounting to €3.78

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Environment (USA) Politics (USA) Society (USA) 

Alaska: Fisheries board member cited for violating fishery closure

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 13:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 20:55
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  A member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries was cited by wildlife troopers in the commercial fishing hotbed of Dillingham last week

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Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Medals, energy and shipping shenanigans: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 19:09 — Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 19:16
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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The Donut Hole (and two other small ones to the south) at the center of the Arctic Ocean. (Cryopolitics)
Blog General Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) Special Features 

Blog: The donut hole at the centre of the Arctic Ocean

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 19:55
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On June 4, I wrote about issues surrounding the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. June 5 was National Donut

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Mikhail Korbinsky shows the worst-case senario map with potential distribution of radioactive Cesium-137 from the K159 in the Barents Sea. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)
Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia Special Features 

Sunken Soviet submarines threaten massive radioactive contamination

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 13:07 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 18:47
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While Russia’s naval yard in Severodvinsk is busy like never before in Post-Soviet times with construction of new submarines, two

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Alaska: Judge allows set-net ban initiative to move forward

APRN
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2014 at 11:14
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A superior court judge has ruled in favor of an initiative to ban commercial set netting for salmon in urban

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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