Bjork helps launch Icelandic nature restoration fund

publication date: Jul 14, 2008

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author/source: NASF

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund team (NASF) and commercial fishermen throughout the north Atlantic meet regularly to review salmon stocks and to decide upon measures that restore stocks quickly and efficiently. At a recent meeting in Reykjavik, the famous singer Björk, met with the fishermen when she was helping to launch an Icelandic nature restoration fund.

Björk has been leading a campaign in Iceland to protect its pristine environment. Recently the group met in Reykjavík where the main topic was salmon research projects at sea.

There is high demand for salmon research at sea, particularly around Greenland and numerous biologists around the world are looking for permission to do so and show their skill. This has in fact created problems for Greenlandic authorities and Greenlandic fishermen as biologists in Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands are also keen to do their own research in these fast changing waters of the North Atlantic region.