The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries is Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 government agency

Etat

Etat is a Norwegian state-, county- or municipal agency. An Etat is a subdivision of the administration, which has been given responsibility for a special area. An agency does not have a board of directors, but it does have a director, appointed by the subordinate organization. Normally decisions...

 under the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs is a Norwegian ministry responsible for fisheries industry, aquaculture industry, seafood safety, fish health and welfare, harbours, water transport infrastructure and emergency preparedness for pollution incidents. It is led by Lisbeth...

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Established in 1900, it is responsible for advising and executing the ministry's policy. It formerly conducted research, but the Institute of Marine Research was split out in 1989. The organization consists of a headquarters based in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, seven regional offices and more than twenty local offices spread around the country.

Heads of the Directorate have been Gabriel Westergaard and Jens O. Dahl (1900–1906), Johan Hjort

Johan Hjort

Johan Hjort FRS was a Norwegian fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time.- The early years :...

 (1906–1918), Sigurd Asserson

Sigurd Asserson

Sigurd Karsten Asserson was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Sandnes. He served as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries from 1918 to 1937....

 (1918–1937), H.J. Salvesen (1938–1945), Ola Brynjelsen (1945–1948), Klaus Sunnanå

Klaus Sunnanå

Klaus Sunnanå was a Norwegian Mot Dag member, economist and fisheries director.He was born in Avaldsnes as a son of teacher and farmer Knut Andreas Søndenaa and Lisa Kristine Thuestad . He took his secondary education at Voss in 1926, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the...

 (1948–1973), Knut Vartdal

Knut Vartdal

Knut Vartdal is a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party.He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Fisheries in 1968 when the cabinet Borten held office. He lost this job when the cabinet fell in 1971, but returned from 1972 to 1973 during the cabinet Korvald...

 (1973–1978), Hallstein Rasmussen (1978–1988), Viggo Jan Olsen (1988–1996) and
Peter Gullestad

Peter Gullestad

Peter Andreas Gullestad is a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Bergen, and took the cand.oecon. degree in 1976. He was hired in the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries in 1977, and climbed in the hierarchy to become assisting director in 1995. From 1996 to 2008 he served as director.-References:...

 (1996–2008) and Liv Holmefjord (2008–present).