Eilif Gaard – Trap The Faroe Islands

Eilif Gaard

(b. 1957) D.Phil. in Marine Biology. Researcher at Havstovan.

Salmon farming on the Faroe Islands

by Helgi Jacobsen, Eilif Gaard, Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen, Bogi Hansen

For 50 years, fish farming has developed from fumbling experiments to becoming the Faroe Islands’ largest single export, and the country is currently the fift...

The fishing industry on the Faroe Islands

by Helgi Jacobsen, Eilif Gaard

When the coastal nations of the North Atlantic expanded their fishing zones to 200 nautical miles in the 1970s, vast areas of sea that had previously been inter...