For almost half a century, the friends Joe Hudson from the US and Jeames Adeane from the UK, have been fishing for salmon in Iceland, and they don’t like the threat of farming salmon in sea cages poses to the Atlantic salmon. The fishing partners discuss salmon fishing in Iceland in an interview in the Sunday newspaper Morgunblaðið. They say that in many countries salmon fishing has in recent years been declining and what has been happening in Scotland and the Kola Peninsula is an example of this.
Four of the most experienced photojournalists in Iceland, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Gunnar V. Andrésson, Páll Stefánsson and Ragnar Axelsson, are deeply concerned about the future of the profession, as authorities have little understanding of their role – to record Icelandic history. All sorts of barriers have been put up in the last few years.