Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus EPL-1 digital camera September 4th 2011. Click image for larger view. Here is have photographed a couple of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) that I caught in a net when I was visiting Northern Norway in September this year. The herring is one of the most important types of fish on the coast [...]

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Taken with Apple iPhone 3GS camera August 11th 2010. Click image for larger view. Here is a picture of a fish called angler fish (Lophius piscatorius) that I caught in a herring net this summer. It was not a big fish, but the angler was a pleasant surprise as I have never caught one of [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I caught a 24 kg (53 lb) heavy cod on a bottom-longline. This is the biggest fish I have caught in years so I was very excited when I dragged the huge fish up from the depth of the ocean. The head was so big that it alone completely filled [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 28th 2008. Click image for larger view. I found this half eaten Rattail fish (probably a Roundnose grenadier, Coryphaenoides rupestris) laying in the middle of a field. I suspect that a sea eagle found the fish washed up on a beach nearby (there was sand all over the [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera June 10th 2007. Click image for larger view. In this picture you can see a close up shot of an Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) that I fished earlier this year. This fish is so tasteful that my mouth waters just by writing this and despite it looks, its my [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 28th 2007. Click image for larger view. In this picture you can see a small butterfish (Pholis gunnellus) that I found under a rock when the tide was out. It is about 20 cm long and got its name because it has very slippery skin. When I was [...]

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