Brexit tops agenda for Norway’s new man in Britain

THE Norwegian Seafood Council’s new man in Britain, Hans Frode Asmyhr, will not only promote Norwegian seafood, both farmed and wild caught, but he will also report back on Brexit developments, which are almost certain to impact on the Norwegian industry.

The Seafood Council has had a permanent representative in the UK for four years because of the importance of the market.

Asmyhr takes up his new post in September. A former MP, he represented the Progressive Party in the Norwegian parliament from 2005-2013.

Commentators in the Norwegian press said that a new and independent British fisheries policy may also conceivably mean that ‘our neighbour on the other side of the North Sea will think the same way about fisheries which could eventually sow the seeds of a new partnership’.

Norway is also looking to secure a free trade deal with Japan, another important seafood market, similar to that signed between the EU and Tokyo recently.

Hans Frode Asmyhr