When one mentions Norway, images of crystal-clear blue waters, beautiful fjords, lush forests, pure air, ancient castles, wooden houses, and the enchanting Northern Lights come to mind, evoking a fairytale-like kingdom.

Norway's vast sea area, enriched by the North Atlantic Current, nurtures abundant fish populations, making it a world-renowned fishing ground.

Relying on its natural resources, Norway has a significant advantage in developing its fishing industry—its coastline, including fjords, stretches over 21,000 kilometers. While Norway's land area is 385,000 square kilometers, the sea area available for fishing and aquaculture is six times that size.

Norway's marine products include wild fish caught in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, as well as farmed fish from hundreds of aquaculture sites along the coast. Its fresh, frozen, and processed products are exported to over 150 countries and regions.

According to incomplete statistics, there are over 200 species of fish and shellfish inhabiting Norwegian waters, with the most famous being the Norwegian Arctic cod found in the Barents and Norwegian Seas. The Barents Sea, with its late development and good preservation, coupled with its cold water and strong currents, maintains exceptionally high water purity.

Near the Norwegian coast, the Lofoten Islands benefit from the convergence of the warm North Atlantic Current and the cold Arctic Current, keeping the ocean surface ice-free year-round.

Here, the interaction of ocean currents and seabed structures brings up nutrients from the deep sea, creating ideal conditions for marine life reproduction and growth. The waters near the Lofoten Islands are the main production area for Norwegian Arctic cod and one of Norway's and the world's best fishing grounds.

Annually, during the winter and spring months from February to April, Norwegian Arctic cod migrate from the Barents Sea to the Lofoten Islands for spawning, marking the main fishing season. In recent years, the Lofoten Islands have yielded around 60,000 tons of cod annually, accounting for about 10% of Norway's total cod production. Besides Norwegian Arctic cod, Norway also produces halibut, herring, mackerel, various types of whitefish, shrimp, and crab.

Ninety percent of Norwegian marine products from fishing and aquaculture are exported, with 10% consumed in the domestic market. Highly modernized fishing fleets and strict management regulations ensure the sustainable development of Norway's fishing industry.

Take Norwegian Arctic cod as an example; these fish are remarkably long-lived, with a maximum age of 40 years, reaching lengths of up to 2 meters and weights of 60 kilograms. They boast impeccable quality—delicious, nutritious, low in fat, high in protein, and rich in vitamin B12, selenium, and iodine.

Norwegian sea product aquaculture employs advanced deep-sea cage farming platform technology, virtually monopolizing the design and operational market of deep-sea cage farming platforms worldwide. It has formed a complete industry chain and supply chain from seedling breeding, offshore stocking, adult fish farming, live fish harvesting, fish meat production, logistics sales, as well as feed production and equipment manufacturing.

Deep-sea farming platforms, also known as large-scale farming vessels, resemble comprehensive "sea farms". These vessels, constructed with steel frames, can accommodate six 50-meter by 50-meter farming cages per ship, with cage depths reaching 60 meters.

The vessels are 430 meters long and 54 meters wide, capable of holding 10,000 tons of adult salmon or over 2 million juvenile fish. Large-scale farming vessels can operate at depths of up to 10 meters below sea level.

Large-scale farming vessels are undoubtedly advanced technological vessels, extensively utilizing highly automated technology. For instance, live fish transport ships convey salmon fry through pipelines to the farming pools on the vessels; the salmon feed is directly transported by feed transport ships through pipelines to the feed storage compartments on the vessels, then evenly sprayed into the farming pools by automatic rotating machines.

The operation of underwater oxygenation machines ensures sufficient dissolved oxygen in the vessel's water, meeting the growth needs of salmon. When the salmon reach maturity, they are transported through pipelines to live fish transport ships, which then deliver them to large-scale processing plants. With machines replacing manual labor, a large farming vessel requires only 3 to 5 workers to raise millions of fish.

In Norway, there are over 600 salmon "sea farms", with an annual output of over 200,000 tons just in the waters around the Lofoten Islands and Nordland County in northern Norway.

As a country with a longstanding maritime tradition, Norway, with its unique fishing culture and advanced farming technology, continues to provide the world with high-quality marine products, setting an example for the sustainable development of the ocean economy.