Norway Limits Wild Salmon Fishing

Pacific salmon aren’t the one ones going through inhabitants threats. Fisheries managers in Norway lately introduced new restrictions for wild Atlantic salmon fishing in 2025 because the nation’s shares hit report lows, in response to Phys.org.

Earlier this yr, fisheries managers in Norway additionally shut down 33 rivers to salmon fishing in response to low returns.

Ellen Hambro, head of the Norwegian Setting Company, mentioned that anglers can anticipate “extra restricted fishing initially of the (2025) season, with the opportunity of opening it up for extra later is the variety of salmon returning is taken into account enough.”

Norwegian officers lay the first blame for poor salmon numbers on the ft of native fish farms within the fjords. These farms, with their giant focus of younger salmon, are a breeding floor for sea lice and different illnesses that infect wild salmon swimming freed from the cages, in response to officers. Fisheries managers additionally contend that farmed fish that escape and breed with wild salmon dilute the wild gene pool, weakening the present shares of salmon.