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Fell in love love with Båtsfjordĭmitry’s first meeting with Norway was through the windows of the van that brought him and the other sailors from the airport in Murmansk to the harbor in Båtsfjord. Foreign fleet accounted for two thirds of that.Īfter 2016, Baltic and Russian boats stopped landing snow crab in Norway because of Norwegian and Russian restrictions. They were busy making sure that they made as much money as possible while the fishing was still unregulated.īy the end of 2016, a total of 31,000 tonnes of snow crab was landed in Norway to the first hand value of NOK 900 million. DREAMED OF NORWAY: - We dreamed of moving to Norway, says Irina Kravchenko, pictured here at her apartment in Odessa.īehind the scenes stood Russian, Korean and American business people in an obscure corporate network stretching from Seychelles to Panama, to Vladivostok, to Hong Kong. One of them was Dmitry Kravchenko from Ukraine. Russian, Ukrainian and Indonesian sailors worked on board the boats. The fishing boats were rigged with South Korean crab traps. Then Latvian and Lithuanian boats started to appear, as well as boats from the Russian Pacific. While Norwegian fishermen took a wait-an-see approach to refitting their boats and getting in the new gold rush, fishing boats from other parts of the world set course towards small Båtsfjord in 2013. In 2014, the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research estimated that the catch potential for snow crab in the Barents Sea in 2035 would be somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 tonnes. The average fishermen’s price has tripled from 26 kroner per kilo in 2014 to 88 kroner today. In recent years, international demand has expanded. The snow crab is gourmet food of the same status as king crab on Asian, American and now European restaurant tables. Since then, more and more of this sought after species have made it into the waters north of Norway and Russia. It has been twenty years since the first snow crab appeared outside Norway, on the Goose Bank in the southeastern Barents Sea.

Be patient and all will be well.» - Dmitry Kravchenko FISHED CRAB: Dmitry Kravchenko (33) went to Finnmark to be a part of the snow crab fishing adventure.

Look at my beard! It makes me feel warm and I’m not cold. «Listen to mom! Be a good boy! Keep well! I send many kisses. It’s them he’s talking to through his smartphone’s camera: And from wife Irina and little Timofei who is only one year old. Dmitry has just come to Norway to fish snow crab. The sea looks black against the white snow. It’s minus five degrees C with a stiff breeze and some heavy gusts. The vessel is at the jetty in Båtsfjord in Finnmark. It is five days to Christmas Eve, the year is 2015, and on deck of snow crab vessel “ Valka” stands Dmitry Kravchenko from Ukraine. HOME IN ODESSA: Dmitry Kravchenko at home with his son Timofei (1) Look how beautiful the nature is here! » - Dmitry Kravchenko Have a good time without me, I’ll be back in about five months.

This article is published in cooperation with Dagbladet which has published a serie of articles about this issue in Norwegian. By: Gunnar Thorenfeldt, Siri Gedde-Dahl, Leif Stang, Ola Strømman, Hans Arne Vedlog and Rønnaug Jarlsbo

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