All salmon fishing in southern Norway stopped: "Doomsday"
Norwegian authorities pull the emergency brake and stop all salmon fishing in the southern parts of the country, reports NRK.
Salmon fishing has been record poor so far this year and too few fish have been counted. The reason for the weak stock is climate change and the large Norwegian salmon farms at sea.
A total of 33 lakes and rivers in southern Norway are covered by the fishing stop, which begins during the night to Sunday.
- It is a deeply tragic situation, but we are in a doomsday for the wild salmon, says Pål Mugaas from Norske Lakseelver to NRK.
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Energy manager: Most extensive outage in 30 years - unclear what caused it
As thermometers in the Balkans passed 40 degrees at lunchtime on Friday, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Albania were hit by nationwide power outages that lasted for hours.
Politicians and officials in the countries point out, according to Radio Free Europe's Balkan editorial office, that electricity consumption increased sharply when the heat wave moved in, what went wrong is being investigated.
- We still don't know what caused this, says Ranko Redzic, head of the authority that manages Montenegro's electricity grid.
He adds that something like this has not occurred in the country for at least 30 years.
In recent years, large sums of money have been invested in phasing out coal power in the Balkans in favor of solar energy. Last year, representatives of the electricity grid warned that the new system was not secure enough to handle sharp and sudden increases in electricity consumption, writes Reuters.
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