Seafood from the High North - sustaining and enhancing the EU market
(WorldNews Norway)

State Secretary Elsbeth Tronstad`s statement at a seminar held by the North Norway European Office in Brussels. (Check against delivery) Minister, your excellences, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends. Thank you for the invitation to speak here today. There is a certain smell of fish is in the air in Brussels these days. I love that smell. It is the smell of a product that is helping to prepare us all for the future, developing the blue bio-economy. Norway and the Faeroe Islands are key players in that respect. And the EU is the key market for our excellent products. Our seafood contribute to employment and value creation in the rest of Europe, and it provides European consumers with a wide...