Watch video: We teach the winter owls at the center how to eat

The salmon and sea trout you see at the Wild Salmon Visitor Center in Lærdal now in May 2026, migrate up into The Lærdal River in 2025.

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When wild salmon come up into freshwater to spawn, they stop eating. Having been in the river all winter, they are often both long and thin. They are called winter stock.

To take care of them, we try to teach them to eat. We drop small pieces of herring from the ceiling of the aquarium, and now several of the fish have started to understand that the food comes "falling" from above.

In the video below you can see how wild salmon and sea trout behave up close at the Wild Salmon Visitor Center in Lærdal.