Lilja Alfredsdottir, Iceland’s minister of culture and trade (left), with Thor Sigfusson, founder and chairman of the Iceland Ocean Cluster Joe Shutter/Iceland Ocean Cluster
AFTER taking a breather for a couple of months, I am back onto two of my favourite subjects: fish and the Nordic countries. I used to be jokingly known as New Scientist‘s ambassador to Finland. I have now switched my allegiances to Iceland after two reporting trips there last year.
One was to cover the horrors of the open-pen salmon farming industry. The other was to visit the…