US EditionThe Long Slow Death of Norway's Wild Salmon
NORWAY, JUL 8 – New regulations aim to reduce fish farming impacts such as sea lice parasites contributing to wild salmon decline, with only 323,000 wild salmon counted in 2024, officials said.
- In 2024, approximately 323,000 wild salmon returned to Norwegian rivers to spawn, a steep drop from the one million counted each year during the 1980s.
- In 2021, Norway classified wild salmon as nearly endangered due to threats from fish farming, climate change, and sea lice.
- Sea lice, parasites thriving on fish farms, attack young wild salmon smolts by eating their skin and sucking their blood, leading to death.
- In June, Norway’s legislature decided that new fish farming regulations should be implemented within two to four years to eliminate emissions, prevent fish escapes, and reduce lice impact.
- Despite restrictions including river closures and quotas hurting tourism and sport anglers, experts like Ann-Britt Bogen warn that current measures are insufficient to save wild salmon.
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The Long Slow Death Of Norway's Wild Salmon
Waist-deep in a rain-swollen river, Christer Kristoffersen cast his line, landed it gently on the water, and caught ... nothing. Norway's iconic wild salmon is in dramatic decline, a victim of fish farming and climate change.
·New York, United States
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With goat at the belt, Christopher Christophersen takes his line in the river, but does not catch anything, because the song the forest, very popular in Norway, suffers a decade or a dramatic drama due to change the climate of ticism and aquaculture. Read more (07/10/2025
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Salmon lice are a major threat to Norwegian wild salmon. Now the Norwegian Hunters and Fishermen's Association wants to map the parasite.
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