User:Vikingss19/Norwegian Sea

Human activities, Faroe Islands in the Norwegian Sea

https://sagy.vikingove.cz/archaeology-of-viking-age-faeroe-islands/

According to the Føroyingasøga, Norse settlers arrived on the islands around the 8th Century. King Harald Fairhair is credited with being the driving force to colonize these islands as well as others in the Norwegian sea. “ “Many other islands lie in the northerly British Ocean. One reaches them from the northerly islands of Britain, by sailing directly for two days and two nights with a full sail in a favourable wind the whole time”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-world-war-two-shipwreck-discovered-norway-180975751/

The Allies lost 18 convoys and 89 merchant ships on this route. “In 2019 explorers found evidence of german warship named the Karlsruhe that sank back in april of 1940 from British torpedo damage during world war 2. ”The major operations of the German Navy against the convoys included PQ 17 in July 1942, the Battle of the Barents Sea in December 1942, and the Battle of the North Cape in December 1943 and were carried out around the border between the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea, near the North Cape.[50]

https://www.euronews.com/2019/12/02/depleted-fish-stocks-can-t-wait-the-eu-and-norway-commit-to-ending-overfishing-now-view

https://europe.oceana.org/en/press-center/press-releases/eu-still-far-phasing-out-overfishing-2020

https://our.fish/press/eu-norway-agreement-the-worst-outcome-for-fish-stocks-in-ten-years/

Over the last century, the Norwegian Sea has been suffering from overfishing. In 2018, 41% of stocks were excessively harvested. Two out of sixteen of the Total Allowed Catches (TACs) agreed upon by the European Union and Norway follow scientific advice. Nine of those TACs are at least 25% above scientific advice. While the other five are set above scientific evidence when excluding landing obligation. Under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the EU committed to phase out overfishing by 2015, 2020 at the absolute latest. As of 2019, the EU was reported to not be on path to achieving that goal.

(will go in between the two paragraphs in the “Fishing and Whaling” section as its own paragraph)