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About threats, management and the future

What are the biggest threats to salmon?

In recent years, salmon populations in Norway have declined. In many rivers, salmon are protected. At the moment, this is also the case in Lærdal, but sea trout fishing is allowed. What are the biggest threats to salmon? In the exhibition, you can learn about the threats in text and pictures.

On an interactive map you can "swim" between rivers, fjords and the sea and get an impression of where the various threats are. A film tells the status, with the history of The Lærdal River as a picture of how things are. Another film depicts the relationship between wild and farmed salmon.

We present measures that help salmon, and that have worked. Among other things, measures against acid rain, the salmon parasite Gyrodactylus Salaris , humpback salmon and regulation of salmon farming. By using resources, it is possible to preserve Atlantic salmon for future generations.

Exhibition with information posters about wild salmon, including pictures of sea lice and outbreaks of sea lice in water.
Information board about wild salmon under attack, in Norwegian and English, in an exhibition room with chairs and a screen.
Information boards about the impact of hydropower on wild salmon and local fishing and environmental problems, with pictures of the river and the salmon fish.
Exhibition with microscopes and informative posters about protecting wild salmon from uncontrolled attacks, with texts in Norwegian and English.
Information board with the text 'Talk with king salmon' and 'Talk with king salmon', as well as a picture of a salmon head with a crown on its head.

Ask King Salmon

If you can't find answers to all your questions in the exhibition, you can ask King Salmon. He is a robot controlled by artificial intelligence that retrieves information from the latest in research and management.

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