Norway’s new ‘seafood’ minister
NORWAY’S new fisheries minister, Harald Tom Nesvik, said he wants people to call him the Minister of Seafood. He took over following the resignation of Per Sandberg over a controversial holiday in Iran.
Nesvik believes his title should be changed because seafood is the country’s most important regional industry. He said he has been given a ‘dream job’ by the prime minister, Erna Solberg.
Nesvik who, like Sandberg, is a member of Norway’s centre right Progress Party, thanked Sandberg for his work, but said he had some ideas of his own and pledged to do his best for the entire fishing industry, to create jobs and to stimulate growth and ensure cleaner seas.
‘It is an honour to have this job and I will be fisheries minister for the whole country,’ he said.
The minister is expected to maintain his predecessor’s policy of expansion for aquaculture. But fish farming companies will be waiting to see if he bows to pressure to impose additional taxes on the industry.