Barents Sea

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Three Norwegian salmon farming companies have agreed to acquire Arctic Seafood Group (ASG), securing local ownership of a growing aquaculture business and expanding their production capacity in northern Norway.

27th July 2026

Norwegian farmers acquire Arctic Seafood

27th July 2026

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Researchers working in Norway’s Barents Sea say a simple modification to snow crab pots could sharply reduce the number of undersized animals accidentally caught in the Arctic fishery.

25th November 2025

Research: Escape hatch could spare undersized Arctic snow crabs

25th November 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Next year’s Barents Sea cod fishing quotas should be reduced by 31%, which would be its lowest level in over two decades, according to the latest advice from the Joint Russian-Norwegian Arctic Fisheries…

25th June 2024

Huge cod quota cut advised for Barents Sea

25th June 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A lost section of a trawl has been returned and put back to use – more than a year after it came fast in the Barents Sea.

3rd January 2024

Lost trawl gear returned from Svalbard

3rd January 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Low-impact precision seabed harvester Arctic Pearl is ready to set course for the Barents Sea and the reopening of the Arctic scallop fishery for the first time in 30 years.

28th November 2022

Scallop project launched

28th November 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Faroe Islands and Russia have concluded consultations on their fisheries cooperation for 2023. 

28th November 2022

2023 Faroes-Russia deal

28th November 2022

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Using technology from Scantrol and Deep Vision, Norwegian company Ava Ocean will start a project later this year that will seek to sustainably harvest scallops from the Barents Sea.

21st September 2022

Tech-enabled scalloping

21st September 2022

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Norwegian company Tau Tech is to begin sustainable scallop harvesting in the Barents Sea and will use Inmarsat’s maritime broadband service Fleet Express following the signing of an agreement at Nor-Fishing 2022.

24th August 2022

Arctic scalloper connected

24th August 2022