Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in "fish farms"- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water.

Author Simen Saetre says Norway's wild salmon population has been cut in half in the past two decades, largely due to the impact of tens of millions of farmed salmon, Saetre coauthored The New ...

Facts on pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) The pink salmon is a species of salmon originally from the Pacific Ocean. It was introduced to Russia in the 1950s and has since spread to Norway. It ...

ÅLESUND — Norway’s fish farms are feeding their salmon an increasingly vegetarian diet in order to make their businesses more sustainable, but for these carnivorous pink-fleshed fish ...

EACH SUMMER, on the banks of the Orkla river in western Norway, the Grindal Salmon Lodge attracts anglers seeking a bucket-list fish. The season for wild Atlantic salmon, which swim upstream from ...

From a distance, the Jostein Albert looks like an ocean tanker. The imposing vessel near the entrance to a northern Norwegian fjord faces out toward the frigid and wild Arctic Ocean. Its steel ...

Jørgen Wengaard steers around the rocky islands of a fjord, his boat cutting through the water’s still surface, sending ripples toward silent forested shores. But here in the Hardangersfjord of ...