I am quite jealous of Norwegians for the Norway’s geographic composition.\u00a0\u00a0Situated in prime fishing waters, Norwegians have the luxury of abundant and fresh fish all year round.\u00a0 Here in Minnesota, we have thousands of lakes that yield lots of fish, but for nearly half of the year, the water is frozen and thus requires much more patience, hard work,\u00a0and potential discomfort than\u00a0does fishing in the summertime.\u00a0 Norwegians fish the coasts whether it is December or July.\u00a0 Norway’s location surrounded by sea water with long coastlines, wide seabeds, and deep fjords provides excellent opportunites for catching\u00a0fish.<\/p>\n
Norwegians have been a fishing people since the beginning of civilization in Norway.\u00a0 Fishing remains one of the largest and most important industries in Norway today (fishing is the 3rd largest export industry behind oil\/gas and metal).\u00a0 Russia, Denmark, France, and Japan import the largest share of Norwegian fish.\u00a0 Although there are fewer fisherman in the industry than there once were, fish farming has increased yield and production efficiency.\u00a0\u00a0Fish farmers depend on feeding care, veterinary attention, selective breeding and site selection to meet environmental standards and production goals.\u00a0 Finding environmentally safe ways to\u00a0manage the\u00a0fish stock population for both nature and humans continues to be a challenge to fish farmers today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, what kinds of fish do Norwegian fish farmers typically catch?\u00a0 85% of sales of Norwegian fish farming are from salmon (laks<\/strong>), that great fish rich with Omega-3 fatty acids.\u00a0 Trout (\u00f8rret)<\/strong>, carp, catfish, tilapia, cod (torsk<\/strong>), and believe it or not, sea urchins.\u00a0 I found this to be quite surprising.\u00a0 Apparently sea urchin roe is a delicacy in some places.\u00a0 Another reason for a recent interest in sea urchin farming is to protect diminishing wild stocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Did you know that there are two types of aquaculture, or fish farming?\u00a0 There is extensive fish farming and intensive fish farming.\u00a0 The difference lies in the intensive fish farming relies on an outside source for food, whereas extensive fish farming relies on photosynthetical food production.\u00a0 Within these two categories of fish farms, there are specific methods, but that, I am afraid, would be much too complicated for a post which I hope gives you an idea of how important fish are to the Norwegian diet, as well as financial well-being of the Norway.\u00a0<\/p>\n Norwegians might eat fish 3 or 4 times per week and so it only makes sense athat there are many different ways to prepare it.\u00a0 One can grill, poach, bake, broil, fry, marinate, smoke, grind, salt and dry, hang it up to dry, cure it, pickle it.\u00a0 Hmmm…can I translate each of those ‘how to prepare fish’ verbs?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00e5 grille <\/strong>is to grill<\/p>\n \u00e5\u00a0posjere <\/strong>is to poach<\/p>\n \u00e5 bake <\/strong>is to bake<\/p>\n \u00e5 steke <\/strong>is to fry<\/p>\n \u00e5 marinere <\/strong>is to marinate<\/p>\n \u00e5\u00a0r\u00f8yke <\/strong>\u00efs to smoke<\/p>\n \u00e5 male <\/strong>is to grind<\/p>\n \u00e5 salte og t\u00f8rke <\/strong>is to salt and dry<\/p>\n \u00e5\u00a0henge opp og t\u00f8rke <\/strong>is to hang up and dry<\/p>\n \u00e5 konservere <\/strong>is to cure<\/p>\n \u00e5\u00a0legge i lake <\/strong>is to pickle<\/p>\n Go eat some fisk <\/strong>and get your healthy Omega-3 fatty acid intake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am quite jealous of Norwegians for the Norway’s geographic composition.\u00a0\u00a0Situated in prime fishing waters, Norwegians have the luxury of abundant and fresh fish all year round.\u00a0 Here in Minnesota, we have thousands of lakes that yield lots of fish, but for nearly half of the year, the water is frozen and thus requires much…<\/p>\n