Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
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Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Norway's exports reached a record in July, driven mainly by natural gas prices that have soared – higher fish and metals exports also contributed
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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Adored and endangered: The complex world of the Japanese eel
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The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Scottish fishermen have increasingly turned to fish auctions in Denmark to avoid having their deliveries to the EU blocked by post-Brexit red tape
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Whale meat has seen an increase in sales this year in Norway – according to local whalers, demand has outstripped supply for the first time in half a decade
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Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
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Fishing has always been a way of life on the Faroe Islands, where fish accounts for 90% of all exported goods – but coronavirus is hitting its efforts to increase tourism
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes
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A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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In Henningsvær a timeless ritual continues to play out as it has for centuries – the harvesting of a most local and seasonal delicacy: cod tongues
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
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Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Canada passes Bill C-68, overhauling the Fisheries Act and banning import and export of shark fins
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"A big fugazi": Why fishermen still can't get behind offshore wind
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Indonesia to sink scores of boats to deter illegal fishing
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Army Corp begins hearings on draft EIS in Alaska for proposed Pebble Mine
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UK ban on discarding edible fish at sea thwarted by industry
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Japan formally announces IWC withdrawal to resume commercial whaling
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The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
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Seychelles issues world’s first blue bond to fund fisheries projects
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