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Escapes from fish farms along the coast are a major challenge for the aquaculture industry, management and the environment. 

Fishing has been an important industry for Norway since time immemorial. Exceptionally good natural conditions, good management and skilled industry practitioners makes Norway Europe's largest fisheries and aquaculture nation. With the right measures, we may harvest the sea and coast into eternity.

From hobby to an advanced biological industry.

The ocean has become 30 percent more acidic since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and acidification is accelerating.

Many questions concerning the impact of pollution, acidification and climate change on the world’s oceans remain unanswered. Much research is need to understand the collective and individual impact of different human activities on the marine environment.

Norway has the second-longest coast in the world. With a rich fauna and flora, it is in good environmental shape. But some Norwegian shore areas are heavily affected by human activity.

The North Sea and Skagerrak are more strongly influenced by human activity than the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea: they contain some of the busiest shipping routes in the world and support intensive fisheries and a large-scale oil and gas industry. Climate change and ocean acidification are expected to have increasing impacts in the future.

The Norwegian Sea is the part of the North Atlantic between Norway, Svalbard and Iceland. In general, the state of the environment is considered to be good, and much of the water column and deep seabed is relatively undisturbed. However, certain species and areas are clearly affected by human activity.

The Barents Sea is one of the world’s most productive sea areas, supporting varied benthic communities and large populations of fish, seabirds and marine mammals. It is still clean and rich in resources, but is under pressure from human activity, climate change and acidification.

New technical standard requirements were introduced on 1 January 2012 for floating fish farms and for the main elements included in these farms.