We have two simultaneous goals with this proposition:

1. Protect the wild salmon and seatrout in Norwegian waters.
2. Economical expansion of communities from managing wild salmon and seatrout Protection of wild salmon and seatrout.

The following rules should take effect immediately:

1. No wild salmon in Norway shall be killed in the next 5 years, with an exception of scientific purposes. Sports fishing can be continued with equipment that allows the catch to be released. Catch and release will be a natural part of the regulations. New rules have to be applicable before the season starts on June 1st 2010.
2. All types of fishing that risk fishing on a blend salmon tribes will be forbidden, effective immediately.
3. All sea fishing will stop and all rights to fish in the sea or along the shore will be withdrawn or put on hold for an undetermined period of time.
4. A set of new, permanent rules should become effective in the summer of 2014.

The following proposition should be effectuated:

1. All Norwegian salmon rivers will be united in a national governing authority. This authority will control and regulate a budget that will be divided among the rivers’ exploiters to support investments that will contribute to - or guarantee the wild salmon’s existence and/or survival.

2. Every single river will be controlled by a single exploitation company. These companies will be owned by today’s land owners and those that have rights to the rivers. The share in the available funds will be based on the amount of reported catch in the past 3 years.

3. The rivers will be divided in sections to create an ultimate situation for sports fishing. Today’s natural borders will no longer be valid for future fishing.

4. Every river will have a council to regulate the fishing spots, the amount of fishermen per spot, optimize the community’s economy and behave as an advisor to local commerce others who plan to invest in tourism.

5. All renting will be handled through a united system for the entire Norwegian watersystem. Renting will be mainly done on a week to week basis. Tourists have to pay for, where or whenever possible, transport, housing, food, perhaps boats and guides. Not very different from the way ski resorts exploit their mountain.
If this is not realistic for whatever reason, then passes can be sold on a day to day basis.

6. Norwegian citizens will be able to purchase fishing passes at a reduced rate, similar to the prices that they have been paying until now. Every council is obliged to reserve passes for 1/3 of the fishing season to this purpose.

7. Councils can exploit 2/3 of the season to the highest bidder. One person can buy one pass, giving him/her the right to use one rod. It is not possible for one person to buy a multitude of passes so that he/she can fish with more than one rod. All passes that haven’t been sold to tourists, will become available for Norwegian citizens, again at the reduced rate.

8. After 5 years with catch and release, only in rivers where scientists have confirmed the salmon tribe healthy, Norwegian citizens will be allowed a buy quota in the same way that hunters can buy quota. These quota apply to the entire country. Reporting catch will happen immediately with the use of a computer or a telephone, so that the salmon population can be controlled and the ’killing’ of fish can be stopped immediately when the quote of the particular river has been reached.

9. Tourists can only fish catch and release.

10. The income that is derived from the sale of quota will go 100% to the national governing authority as described in point 1. This money will thus contribute to the budget to support investments that benefit the wild salmon.