Seal hunting,or sealing,is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in ten countries:United States,Canada,Namibia,Denmark,Iceland,Norway,Russia,Finland and Sweden. Most of the world's seal hunting takes place in Canada and Greenland.
Lars Peder Brekk is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was private secretary to the Minister of Fisheries 1985-1986,and himself Minister of Fisheries in 2000. He was elected to parliament in 2005 and served as Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2008 to 2012. He was acting leader of the Centre Party from June to September 2008.
Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party,the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party,known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September 2013,the coalition was defeated in the 2013 election.
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Transportation is a Norwegian ministry established in 1946,and is responsible for transportation in Norway. The ministry was responsible for communication infrastructure until may 2019,when the responsibility for the Norwegian Communications Authority was transferred to Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Since January 2020,the ministry is led by Knut Arild Hareide. The department must report to the parliament (Stortinget).
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs was a Norwegian ministry responsible for fisheries industry,aquaculture industry,seafood safety,fish health and welfare,harbours,water transport infrastructure and emergency preparedness for pollution incidents.
Norwegian Coastal Administration is a Norwegian government agency responsible for the water transport infrastructure along the 9,200 km Coast of Norway. It is responsible for coastal navigation infrastructure,pilotage and harbour and port infrastructure,including lighthouses. The agency is led by the Coastal Directorate (Kystdirektoratet) and is subordinate to the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. The main office is in Ålesund.
Kai Henning Gjesdal Henriksen was a Norwegian businessman. A former politician for the Conservative Party of Norway,and having served a period as the chief executive officer of Storebrand Bank,Henriksen was CEO of the Norwegian government-owned wine and spirits retail monopoly company,AS Vinmonopolet from 2006 until his death in 2016.
Roger Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party. He is best known as State Secretary in Stoltenberg's First and Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet and county councillor in Troms County Municipality (2003–2006). He has also worked as a journalist in Dagbladet and Verdens Gang,and was the news editor in Nordlys. He has also been information or communications director in the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine,Hurtigruten and Tromsø2018.
Barbro Lill Hætta-Jacobsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Odd F. Lindberg is a Norwegian freelance journalist,Arctic explorer and film maker.
Jostein Helge Bernhardsen is a Norwegian diplomat.
Sverre Stub is a Norwegian diplomat.
The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries is a Norwegian government agency. On 1 January 2014 it was incorporated into the new Ministry of Trade,Industry and Fisheries formerly under the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs.
Johan Georg Alexius Ræder was a Norwegian diplomat.
Knut Olav Åmås is a Norwegian writer,editor and politician for the Conservative Party.
Paul Gruda Koht was a Norwegian diplomat.
Peter Martin Anker was a Norwegian diplomat. He worked for the League of Nations,Red Cross and United Nations before,during and after the Second World War. He was then an ambassador in European,Asian and African countries from 1951 to 1973. He was stationed in six countries,but with side responsibilities for other countries,he was an ambassador in fifteen countries during his career.
The Minister of Fisheries is a councilor of state in the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs (Norway). The incumbent minister is Bjørnar Skjæran of the Labour Party.
Jørn Aksel Krog was a Norwegian civil servant.
Illegal,unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) in the Arctic is an under researched scientific field. The most recent academic articles about IUU in the Arctic mainly concerns the mid 2000s.
