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Vigfusson, Orri. Saviour of North Atlantic wild salmon

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Date:

November 2012

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R16853-101-2-E, Volume number: 2, File number: 46

File no. (creator):

46

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Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

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Item ID number:

5858791

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Vigfusson, Orri. Saviour of North Atlantic wild salmon
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Date(s):

November 2012

Place of creation:

Iceland

Extent:

2 video files (.mov, .mp4).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with Orri Vigfusson titled "Saviour of North Atlantic wild salmon." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

From the interview: "I come from a herring family in the northern part of Iceland, just by the Arctic Circle. In the fifties and the sixties we saw the overfishing of the herring and soon, by 1967, there was no herring left. So, we really destroyed the diversity of the stocks and suddenly there was no more herring. So, I have that in my blood. My family, we had to move away, and there was no more income to get from the herring stocks. So, this is my background, so I know a lot about the fishery. In Iceland, we export fish for about two billion dollars a year. There are three hundred thousand of us. So we know a great deal about fisheries management. We get it in the morning newspapers, we get it in the breakfast news and the television news. Every two or three hours we are reminded in the news, some elements on fisheries management and quality of the fish, and so on.

"We have come a long way in organizing our fisheries in a way that it is managed through commercial agreements. I think fisheries everywhere should be managed by commercial agreements. I do not believe in government resolutions of this and that because every nation interprets that in a different way, every lithe village interprets that in a different way. But if you have commercial agreements, people usually stick to agreements, and that is what encouraged me to make commercial agreements for the fisherman. People respect commercial agreements because if you violate the agreement, somebody doesn't get paid, you see, because you only get pay provided that the agreement is fulfilled."

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MSS2736

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General note:

From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Fish and fisheries; Oceans."

From The Green Interview website: Orri Vigfusson, the Icelandic conservationist who set out to protect Atlantic salmon by retiring all the commercial salmon licenses in the North Atlantic - and, after 20 years, has eliminated 85% of them.

Orri Vigfusson is an Icelandic businessman, environmentalist and "green capitalist" whose ambitious goal of saving the dwindling North Atlantic salmon led him to seek ownership of every commercial salmon-fishing licence in order to retire them, and ultimately to close the entire commercial Atlantic salmon fishery. Over the past 17 years, through his North Atlantic Salmon Fund, Vigfusson has bought and retired 85 per cent of commercial salmon quotas and licences in the North Atlantic basin. The remaining 15 per cent is held chiefly by Norway, but also by Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Orri is actively pursuing those as well.

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607802, 607803.

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Moving images (video): electronic

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Textual records: electronic

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Sound recordings : electronic

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Volume [R16853]

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2 File number 40

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