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Salmon industry embroiled in asthma row
A dispute has broken out between Norway’s salmon industry and the national broadcaster NRK over claims that some of its employees are developing asthma through their work.
NRK has highlighted research findings from a study carried out on workers at St Olav’s Hospital in Trondheim
The broadcaster said reports from the hospital showed that a number of people, some of them immigrant workers, were suffering from “salmon asthma”.
Read MoreKing crab prices hit new high
SOARING demand from South Korea and North America has sent king crab prices to record levels over the past few weeks, Scandinavian shell fishermen and exporters are reporting. Three years ago prices were a steady 75 Norwegian kroners a kilo. But in the past week the crab prices had more than doubled, selling at NOK 190 a kilo. Some…
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