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[]

Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Cabinet
Reidar Carlsen^[2]	Labour	1 July 1946	19 November 1951	5 years, 141 days	Gerhardsen II
Peder Holt	Labour	19 November 1951	22 January 1955	3 years, 64 days	Torp
Nils Lysø	Labour	22 January 1955	28 August 1963	8 years, 218 days	Gerhardsen III
Onar Onarheim	Conservative	28 August 1963	25 September 1963	28 days	Lyng
Magnus Andersen	Labour	25 September 1963	12 October 1965	2 years, 17 days	Gerhardsen IV
Oddmund Myklebust	Centre	12 October 1965	8 November 1968	3 years, 27 days	Borten
Einar Moxnes	Centre	8 November 1968	17 March 1971	2 years, 129 days	Borten
Knut Hoem	Labour	17 March 1971	24 January 1972	313 days	Bratteli I
Magnus Andersen	Labour	24 January 1972	18 October 1972	268 days	Bratteli I
Trygve Olsen	Centre	18 October 1972	16 October 1973	363 days	Korvald
Eivind Bolle	Labour	16 October 1973	14 October 1981	7 years, 363 days	Bratteli II Nordli Brundtland I
Thor Listau	Conservative	14 October 1981	4 October 1985	3 years, 355 days	Willoch I-II
Eivind Reiten	Centre	4 October 1985	9 May 1986	217 days	Willoch II
Bjarne Mørk-Eidem	Labour	9 May 1986	10 October 1989	3 years, 154 days	Brundtland II
Svein Munkejord	Conservative	16 October 1989	3 November 1990	1 year, 18 days	Syse
Oddrunn Pettersen	Labour	3 November 1990	4 September 1992	1 year, 306 days	Brundtland III
Jan Henry T. Olsen	Labour	4 September 1992	25 October 1996	4 years, 51 days	Brundtland III
Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen	Labour	25 October 1996	17 October 1997	357 days	Jagland
Peter Angelsen	Centre	17 October 1997	21 January 2000	2 years, 96 days	Bondevik I
Lars Peder Brekk	Centre	21 January 2000	17 March 2000	56 days	Bondevik I
Otto Gregussen	Labour	17 March 2000	19 October 2001	1 year, 216 days	Stoltenberg I
Svein Ludvigsen	Conservative	19 October 2001	17 October 2005	3 years, 363 days	Bondevik II
Helga Pedersen	Labour	17 October 2005	2 October 2009	3 years, 350 days	Stoltenberg II
Lisbeth Berg-Hansen	Labour	20 October 2009	16 October 2013	3 years, 361 days	Stoltenberg II
Elisabeth Aspaker	Conservative	16 October 2013	16 December 2015	2 years, 61 days	Solberg
Per Sandberg	Progress	16 December 2015	13 August 2018	2 years, 240 days	Solberg
Harald T. Nesvik	Progress	13 August 2018	24 January 2020	1 year, 164 days	Solberg
Geir-Inge Sivertsen	Conservative	24 January 2020	2 March 2020^[3]	38 days	Solberg
Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen	Conservative	13 March 2020	14 October 2021	1 year, 215 days	Solberg
Bjørnar Skjæran	Labour	14 October 2021	Incumbent	104 days	Støre