A record number of chinook salmon are expected to enter the Teno River in the coming summer to spawn.
Norway plans to hire several dozen people next summer to clear the Teno River’s humpback salmon beds. This is reported in the Ávvir newspaper.
The Norwegian Environment Agency is offering 30 summer jobs for humpback seaweed drainers. The sea will be placed in the Tenojoki River, below Tana brun next summer to prevent humpback salmon from entering the river.
– We have also received several applications from the Finnish side. We hope that locals from both sides of the border will apply for jobs, because they know the Teno River best,” says Sturla Brørs Ávvirille.
“Finland and Norway’s measures should support each other”
A record number of humpback salmon are expected to spawn in the Tenojoki watershed this coming summer. Humpback salmon is an alien species and is believed to threaten the original Teno salmon.
– There is no such plan. Of course, we hope that this matter will also be taken into account in Finland, that there would be a need for labor there. In Finland, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is currently promulgating a decree on how to guide the targeted fishing of humpback salmon, which can be practiced next summer in Teno, says Hakaste.
However, Hakaste stresses that Finland and Norway coordinate together the exceptional catch of humpback salmon in Tenojoki.
– The purpose is to coordinate what is done in Norway and what is done in Finland, so that the measures in both countries support each other and that the caught humpback salmon can be caught safely so that it does not adversely affect other migratory fish stocks, says Tapio Hakaste, a negotiating official at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.