This was among the suggestions to the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen, during a consultative meeting at Nofima.<\/p>\n
More than 60 people from a host of companies, institutions and organisations in the Troms\u00f8 region gathered to hear the Minister\u2019s views about the forthcoming White Paper about the seafood nation Norway.<\/p>\n
Representatives from the University of Troms\u00f8, the Norwegian Seafood Export Council, the Norwegian Seafood Federation, Troms County Council, Norwegian Fishermen’s Association and Innovation Norway, among others, then had an opportunity to offer their suggestions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of what the Norwegian seafood industry achieves, but I\u2019m not satisfied. We need to exploit the potential in the sea even better,\u201d said the Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen, during her introduction.<\/p>\n
The government White Paper will contribute to further developing the seafood industry\u2019s role of creating value along the coast. It will be presented at the end of next year or in early 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplied research demands long-term investment to develop competence and a good plan for funding. I hope the Minister will include this in the White Paper on seafood,\u201d said the CEO of the food research institute Nofima, \u00d8yvind Fylling-Jensen.<\/p>\n
The meeting in Troms\u00f8 was the first of a series of consultative meetings with marine environments throughout the country. Over the next year the Minister will carve out visions, goals and measures to make sure Norway maintains its position as one of the world\u2019s leading seafood nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe seafood industry needs to get hold of the best brains and strengthen efforts with applied research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}