Norway reshuffles fisheries minister

NORWEGIAN Prime Minister Erna Solberg reshuffled her cabinet last month, replacing fisheries minister Elisabeth Aspaker with Per Sandberg.

Aspaker, who was in her post for two years, moves to the foreign ministry and will be responsible for EU policy.

The communication director at Marine Harvest, Ola Helge Hjetland, said: ‘We congratulate Per Sandberg with the important job as minister of fisheries and look forward to good cooperation.’

Sandberg was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 1997 and has been deputy leader of the Progress Party since 2006. He has a reputation as an outspoken critic of Norway’s ‘hotel standard’ prison facilities and of its immigration policies.

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg