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Netting buyout launches NASF salmon conservation plan for Norway

80% of Netsmen sign up

Exclusive London Salmon Dinner on March 2

International spotlight shifts to Ireland. Now the only country  still promoting a drift netting policy for wild salmon.

 

A five-year, 3 million-dollar netting buyout in Norway gives the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) yet another success in its long battle to rescue the Atlantic’s wild salmon stocks from over-fishing.

 

The agreement covers the Trondheim fjord and salmon destined for such great rivers as the Gaula, Orkla. Stjordal and Verdal, all of them legendary amongst anglers for their huge salmon. In company with the other rivers that flow into the Trondheim fjord they were losing too many of their fish to commercial netting. Now netsmen who have been catching over 80% of the registered catch – the percentage needed to trigger the buyout – have signed up to the NASF-inspired agreement. This will provide a unique environmental opportunity, strengthen the spawning stocks, restore the salmon image and create community value of the salmon in the sportfishery.

 

NASF-style agreements in which commercial salmon fishermen are compensated if they stop fishing have left Norway and Ireland isolated as the only countries on either side of the Atlantic where large-scale netting continues.  They were also the only places last year not to enjoy a substantial upturn in salmon numbers.

 

NASF now hopes that conservation-minded angling interests throughout Norway will copy the Trondheim buyout  and that the country’s salmon stocks will rapidly improve as a result. This will delight the many people who have feared that Norway’s reputation as a premier angling destination could not survive if unabated netting continues. 

 

NASF’s chairman Orri Vigfusson said: “I am very grateful to Arne Joerrestol, chairman of the Norwegian Salmon Netsmen Organisation for giving us this wonderful opportunity.  He has placed conservation ahead of his economic interests and made it very much a first priority.  You cannot compromise on salmon conservation and Arne´s leadership is a shining example of what can be done.  

 

"The leaders of the Trondheim project, Jon Kjelden and Vegard Heggem, have given their region’s rivers a major boost and thrown a lifeline to the salmon rivers in the rest of Norway. This is the way ahead and Norwegians are signing up to help their dwindling stocks recover.

A great many thanks are also due to NASF's conservation partners who have made this deal possible."

 

NASF maintains agreements that protect the salmon’s feeding grounds off Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes.  By compensating commercial fishermen further south  NASF has also eliminated much of the netting that used to obstruct the routes the fish take as they return to their native rivers.

 

On March 2nd, together with Ian Stoppani,  NASF is  hosting an exclusive London Salmon Dinner for key supporters  at the " Le Bouchon Bordelais restaurant, 5-9 Battersea Rise, SW11   (www.lebouchon.co.uk).   Orri Vigfusson said:  “There will be an update on NASF’s global activities but certainly we shall also have fun and the best of meals.”  

 

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) is an international coalition of voluntary conservation groups that have come together to restore stocks of wild Atlantic salmon to their historic sustainable abundance.  For more information contact Orri Vigfússon ( tel +354 568 6277) or by e-mail: nasf@vortex.is