The Arctic region planned to become a leader in Russian aquaculture development. Now, massive fish death, bankruptcies and billions of lost investments are putting the industry on its knees.
Flares light up the Arctic sky over Kola Peninsula as aquaculture farmers put fire to rotten salmon. This week, one of the key companies said enough is enough and declared itself bankrupt.
Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.
In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.
Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.