Highlights from Nor-Fishing 2024

This year’s Nor-Fishing has delivered beyond all expectations! Thank you to all exhibitors and to those of you who have visited the exhibition. There has been a bustling exhibition life and a good atmosphere throughout the week. The halls have been very well visited, the conversations have been good, large contracts have been signed and we have had exciting lectures, debates and discussions at the exhibition.

CEO of the Nor-Fishing Foundation, Kristian Digre, and Exhibition Manager Kari Steinsbø, has this to say about Nor-Fishing 2024:

– We have had an amazing exhibition week. A lot of companies have signed large contracts and established many new relationships – which enhances the idea of Nor-Fishing as the most important meeting place in the fisheries industry. We greatly appreciate all you exhibitors and visitors that ensures at Nor-Fishing is an event that is important for the entire fisheries industry..»

Watch the most important highlights from Nor-Fishing 2024 digitally

We have recorded all the most important highlights from this year’s exhibition, so that you may rewatch them digitally. Watch the entire opening ceremony, en exciting debate, get to know several amazing exhibitors and a lot more. We truly recommend you to take a look at all the fantastic content from Nor-Fishing 2024.

A few highlights from the exhibiton days

Here you may take a look a some of the highlights from the exhibition – day by day. You may also watch a video with some of the exhibition highlights.

Monday – the Nor-Fishing Conference

This year’s Nor-Fishing conference was arranged at Clarion Hotel Trondheim, on Monday 19th of August. The Conference was very vell visited, and we are very pleased with the attendance. Thank you to everyone who participated and our skilled lectures. We have recorded every single lecture for you to watch as well.

Tuesday

The opening of Nor-Fishing 2024 started with a magnificent Opening Ceremony, where both Mayor Kent Ranum, Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy Marianne Sivertsen Næss, and many more contributed.

Watch the entire Opening ceremony, as well as the highlights from Tuesday:

Among the highlights of this day was an exciting debate on “Do we have enough seafood to supply Norway in a crisis?” where both the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, as well as several high-ranking politicians and people in the fisheries industry participated.

Furthermore, the winner of the prestigious Innovation Award was also named, and we congratulate Ava Ocean as this year’s winner. We also named the first ever YoungFisher during the opening ceremony, and we congratulate Erik Gåsvær on the award.

The day ended with two fantastic dinners, the Grand Dinner, and the entertaining Dinner & Show – One Night with Queen where Åge Sten Nilsen put on a fantastic Queen show.

Here you can see the entire debate, and dinner-highlights:

Read the stories covering some of the highlights from Tuesday:

Wednesday

Despite gray weather, people poured into Trondheim Spektrum on the second day of the exhibition. The halls were filled with people, and the day was characterized by the signing of several large contracts. We also had an exciting program in the Mendelsohn conference hall, which many followed.

The highlight of the day must still be said to be the conversation we had with Vebjørn, who exhibited his own model boat collection at Nor-Fishing. You can see the interview with Vebjørn below, some of the highlights from day two and a small video from the evening’s spectacular Street Food & Mingle party.

Read about some of the highlights from the second exhibition day:

Thursday

During the last exhibition day of the year, students flocked to Nor-Fishing. We are incredibly proud to see how well everyone welcomed the fisheries industry’s next generation – and we have heard from many that there have been many exciting conversations and discussions about how to take the fishing industry into the future.

We also congratulate BAADER Norway AS on the award for the year’s best stand.

The pitches of the Student Camp participants were also particularly interesting. We are impressed by how the participants came up with good solutions to the future challenges in the fisheries industry. We also congratulate the winning project of Sigurd, Hanna and Fahim.

See the interview with the winners from Student Camp and BAADER here, and the highlights from the last day of the exhibition

Also read more exciting stories from the last exhibition day:

Take a look in the news archive to see all the stories from Nor-Fishing 2024.

Thank you for wonderful days at Nor-Fishing to all exhibitors, visitors and partners!