For generations, Anne’s family has been living in the small bay called Per Larsavik, pursuing traditional income ways such as fishing and small scale agriculture. She has learned about the wild salmon fishing by following her father to sea, and this is her preferred way of learning.
Anne would like to remain at her home place, but feels she also needs formal education to secure her future. She is therefore a student of agriculture in the south of Norway, but comes home every summer to fish with her father.
The income of the wild salmon fishing is now dear for her as a student, but she believes it will be hard to make a living out of it, as the fishing is marginalized year by year.
Anne has strong opinions about the regulations that the Norwegian government is putting on this traditional way of fishing. She says the regulations give to much advantage to the sport fishers of the rivers. For her, salmon fishing is not a hobby or a mere interest.
Anne Kristiansen is from Per Larsavik in the county of Nesseby, Norway. She is a salmon fisher, but now lives in Ås in the south of Norway, where she studies agriculture.
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