The fjord of Skjerstad

The fjord is well known among anglers in scandinavia and some parts of europe for it`s rich marine life and the powerfull streams in the outlet (Saltstraumen). Years ago the fishing were even greater with more and bigger fish, Wolffish, coalfish, cod... The last ten years it seems like the number of big fish has decreased and also the population of fish. Sadly there has also been established some fishfarms in the fjord and this is wery wery bad and this is in my eyes environmental crime allowed by nobrained politicians. I have been encouraged to write a little shoutout... 

This is one of the farms located in the fjord, here they are polluting the sea with genetically breeded salmon and trout.
There is two things that really mess up marine life, oilspill and fishfarms. Norway is one of the biggest produsers of fish and oil and I am not proud of that. Fishfarming has grown to be necesseary for food since the worlds population is growing with an extreme speed and the need for food is bigger than ever, but if they dont get the facilities out of the water soon there won`t be any marine life left.
And for the energy need, scientists should be gettin their heads into thorium wich is a stabile mineral that could revolutionate todays nuclear facilities and make them totally safe and cheaper so that we can let the oil stay at the bottom of the sea and no oilspills would occure.

Well, back to the fishing. there is one theory that is quite sure, anglers are taking way to much fish that is under the minimum size, and also specially halibut and wolffish is fished up, big and small.
It is important for the local economy to have a tourism industry and I am wery positive to the way this has evolved. But if local anglers and anglers from different parts of scandinavia should continue to fish up small cod, coalfish, halibut, wolffish and other species there will be no fish left for the proffesional C&R anglers that comes to our fjord to fish. During the summers last ten years I have seen lots of bad examples where loads of undersized fish has been packed into freezers in caravans and cars. Also bigger fish is not released after the fight.

The fjord is long (about 100 km) but a bit narrow with the deepest parts of  around 500 meeters 1050 feet. you can think about it like an inshore lake with saltwater, some of the fish, specially halibut and seatrout almost never leaves the fjord, and that makes the overfishing hazardous. So please, come and fish in our waters but I beg of you, be gentle to the fish and let it swim away unharmed after the fight. It`s better to return every year to great fishing instead of no fishing.