ArcticHubs and NOFIMA team at aquaculture hub: field visit to Ringvassøya island

A snapshot of some of the activities conducted by the ArcticHubs NOFIMA research team in Ringvassøya island and Tromsø. After several productive workshop days indoors at the NOFIMA offices in Tromsø last January, ArcticHubs researchers maintained their tradition of always embracing a hub field visit to further stimulate ideas and an understanding of the multi land and sea use realities in the Arctic region today. The destination this time was to the island …

Interview with Roy Robertsen, NOFIMA senior researcher at Varangerfjord Hub

Dr. Roy Robertsen is a senior scientist for one of the ArcticHubs’ partner organisations, NOFIMA; he is specialised in seafood and aquaculture research, fish farming research and development, and environment sustainability. Within the project, he is researching the trends and industrial development of fish farms around the hub of Varangerfjord (Norway), its environmental sustainability and the ripple effects of new sea-related industries on fish, sea, costs and people. In this …

Varangerfjord: co-creating in a complex hub. Seminar event May 2022

Perched at the far northern tip of mainland Europe as the easternmost fjord in Norway, the Varangerfjord region is no stranger to thinking about adaptations and remaining resilient to complex and shifting circumstances. It was a natural choice for the region to become one of the focal points for the ArcticHubs research team from project partner, NOFIMA, as they are able to draw upon extensive experiences of working with and …

Fish farming hubs

Aquaculture is an economic sector that has developed over the past couple of decades on an industrial scale across numerous Arctic waters. In no small part, recent rapid growth has occurred due to the increase in global demand in particular for Atlantic Salmon (salmo salar) which dominates aquaculture production in the region. Mirroring the domination in production of a single species, the business of fish farming which initially spawned a …