Minister of Fisheries (Norway)

The Minister of Fisheries is a councilor of state in the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs (Norway). The incumbent minister is Bjørnar Skjæran of the Labour Party.

The position was created 1 July 1946. Between 2004 and 2013 the minister held the name of Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs reflecting a broadening in responsibility for the ministry. When Solberg's Cabinet took office, the minister was again called Minister of Fisheries and did no longer have responsibilities for coastal affairs.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs was abolished in January 2014, but the minister post was kept, and now heads responsibilities for fisheries in the new Ministry of Trade and Fisheries, alongside the Minister of Trade.^[1]

Ministers

Key
  Conservative Party
  Centre Party
  Labour Party
  Progress Party

List of ministers

Photo	Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Cabinet	Ref
	Reidar Carlsen	Labour	1 July 1946	19 November 1951	5 years, 141 days	Gerhardsen II	^[2]
	Peder Holt	Labour	19 November 1951	22 January 1955	3 years, 64 days	Torp	^[3]
	Nils Lysø	Labour	22 January 1955	28 August 1963	8 years, 218 days	Gerhardsen III	^[4]
	Onar Onarheim	Conservative	28 August 1963	25 September 1963	28 days	Lyng	^[5]
	Magnus Andersen	Labour	25 September 1963	12 October 1965	2 years, 17 days	Gerhardsen IV	^[6]
	Oddmund Myklebust	Centre	12 October 1965	8 November 1968	3 years, 27 days	Borten	^[7]
	Einar Moxnes	Centre	8 November 1968	17 March 1971	2 years, 129 days	Borten	^[7]
	Knut Hoem	Labour	17 March 1971	24 January 1972	313 days	Bratteli I	^[8]
	Magnus Andersen	Labour	24 January 1972	18 October 1972	268 days	Bratteli I	^[8]
	Trygve Olsen	Centre	18 October 1972	16 October 1973	363 days	Korvald	^[9]
	Eivind Bolle	Labour	16 October 1973	14 October 1981	7 years, 363 days	Bratteli II Nordli Brundtland I	^[10] ^[11] ^[12]
	Thor Listau	Conservative	14 October 1981	4 October 1985	3 years, 355 days	Willoch I-II	^[13]
	Eivind Reiten	Centre	4 October 1985	9 May 1986	217 days	Willoch II	^[13]
	Bjarne Mørk-Eidem	Labour	9 May 1986	10 October 1989	3 years, 154 days	Brundtland II	^[14]
	Svein Munkejord	Conservative	16 October 1989	3 November 1990	1 year, 18 days	Syse	^[15]
	Oddrunn Pettersen	Labour	3 November 1990	4 September 1992	1 year, 306 days	Brundtland III	^[16]
	Jan Henry T. Olsen	Labour	4 September 1992	25 October 1996	4 years, 51 days	Brundtland III	^[16]
	Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen	Labour	25 October 1996	17 October 1997	357 days	Jagland	^[17]
	Peter Angelsen	Centre	17 October 1997	21 January 2000	2 years, 96 days	Bondevik I	^[18]
	Lars Peder Brekk	Centre	21 January 2000	17 March 2000	56 days	Bondevik I	^[18]
	Otto Gregussen	Labour	17 March 2000	19 October 2001	1 year, 216 days	Stoltenberg I	^[19]
	Svein Ludvigsen	Conservative	19 October 2001	17 October 2005	3 years, 363 days	Bondevik II	^[20]
	Helga Pedersen	Labour	17 October 2005	2 October 2009	3 years, 350 days	Stoltenberg II	^[21]
	Lisbeth Berg-Hansen	Labour	20 October 2009	16 October 2013	3 years, 361 days	Stoltenberg II	^[21]
	Elisabeth Aspaker	Conservative	16 October 2013	16 December 2015	2 years, 61 days	Solberg	^[22]
	Per Sandberg	Progress	16 December 2015	13 August 2018	2 years, 240 days	Solberg	^[23]
	Harald T. Nesvik	Progress	13 August 2018	24 January 2020	1 year, 164 days	Solberg	^[24]
	Geir-Inge Sivertsen	Conservative	24 January 2020	2 March 2020	38 days	Solberg	^[25] ^[26]
	Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen	Conservative	13 March 2020	14 October 2021	1 year, 215 days	Solberg	^[27]
	Bjørnar Skjæran	Labour	14 October 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 100 days	Støre	^[28]

References

1. Press release from the Office of the Prime Minister (16 October 2013) Fields of responsibility in Erna Solberg’s government Regjeringen.no. Retrieved 4 November 2013 (in Norwegian)
2. Fiskeri- og kystdepartementet. Statsråd 1946 - Retrieved 4 October 2013 (in Norwegian)
3. "Oscar Torps regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
4. "Einar Gerhardsens tredje regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
5. "John Lyngs regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
6. "Einar Gerhardsens fjerde regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
7. "Per Bortens regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
8. "Trygve Brattelis første regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
9. "Lars Korvalds regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
10. "Trygve Brattelis andre regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
11. "Odvar Nordlis regjering" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 18 January 2023.
12. "Gro Harlem Brundtlands første regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
13. "Kåre Willochs regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
14. "Gro Harlem Brundtlands andre regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
15. "Jan P. Syses regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
16. "Gro Harlem Brundtlands tredje regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
17. "Thorbjørn Jaglands regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
18. "Kjell Magne Bondeviks første regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
19. "Jens Stoltenbergs første regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
20. "Kjell Magne Bondeviks andre regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
21. "Jens Stoltenbergs andre regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
22. "Erna Solbergs regjering" (in Norwegian). government.no. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
23. "Dette er Ernas nye statsråder" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
24. "Per Sandberg går av som statsråd og Frp-nestleder" (in Norwegian). NRK. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
25. "Slik er Solberg-regjeringen 4.0" (in Norwegian). NRK. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
26. "Torbjørn Røe Isaksen tar midlertidig over som fiskeriminister" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
27. "Guri Melby (V) ny kunnskap- og integreringsminister og Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen ny fiskerminister" (in Norwegian). NRK. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
28. "Norge har fått ny regjering" (in Norwegian). NRK. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.