We invite you to the Spawning Festival with fun activities on the last weekend of October, with the goal of creating awareness about salmon.
Photo: Camilla Brattland UiT, project manager for "Sharing our knowledge"
We need your knowledge about the Tana River Basin – invitation to participate in collaboration on research related to the Tana River Basin. At Scandic Hotel Hotel Karasjok
Joddu hereby invites you to an information meeting in Karasjok on December 2nd at 5:00 PM.
National Wild Salmon Center Tana – Joddu invites, on behalf of several research projects, to participate in research on the Tana River. The Wild Salmon Center has been engaged by UiT to coordinate contact between local communities along the Tana River and research projects that wish to conduct research on topics that particularly involve local, Sami and traditional knowledge about the Tana River.
PROGRAM
1700 Welcome by Camilla Brattland (UiT) and Hege Persen (Joddu). Status of research projects on the Tana River Basin, salmon, local, traditional and Sami knowledge.
17.15 Briefing on the Sami Parliament's further work on the Karasjok Declaration on salmon management by Elle-Risten Wigelius, Sami Parliament.
17.30 "Can salmon councils contribute to locally based and holistic salmon management?" Lecture by Stine Rybråten, NINA (digital).
Questions and answers.
18.00 Break
18.15 Discussion. Local participation in research and a forum for collaboration on research along the Tana River. What does it mean and why is it important?
19:00 Dinner for registered participants.
There are several projects that want to invite local people to participate in various ways and levels in research on the Tana River Basin:
1. The research project RecoSal (2023 – 2026) led by LUKE and in which NINA and UiT participate together with Umeå University, wants to bring together bearers of local, traditional and scientific knowledge and rights holders to plan together what can be done to protect and rebuild salmon stocks and salmon fishing culture along the Tana River and in its tributaries. A reference group with knowledge bearers on both sides of the river, and participation in the project's activities such as workshops and interviews, is desirable.
2. The newly launched project "Sharing our knowledge" (2024 – 2027) in which UiT is part of an international project led by Dalhousie University in Canada. The project focuses on climate risk in watercourses that are the basis of indigenous culture, and will establish an exchange of knowledge with indigenous peoples in Canada about climate change and indigenous leadership in the management of salmon-bearing watercourses. The project wants to identify the need for research on how climate change affects the watercourse, and maps Sami concepts and knowledge about the condition of the watercourse. Local partners are DeanuInstituhtta and Joddu, who, together with the Sami Parliament and UiT, are members of the project's steering group.
The background for the projects is the focus on the crisis of wild salmon, the preservation of river Sámi culture and traditional knowledge as part of the knowledge base for the status of wild salmon stocks in the Tana River Basin. In the fall of 2023, UiT and LUKE organized a meeting in Karasjok under the auspices of the RecoSal project where research needs and issues regarding management and research on salmon were collected and discussed. The Sharing our knowledge project started in 2024 and is based on the principles of equality between indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge and indigenous leadership in knowledge and management practices. The project has established a steering group where UiT, Joddu, DeanuInstituhtta and the Sámi Parliament are working together to develop a knowledge base based on Sámi knowledge about changes in climate and environment in the Tana River Basin, and exchange experiences about this with the Mikma'q Nation in Nova Scotia. The steering group will also help to build a permanent forum for information and discussion about ongoing research on the Tana River Basin in collaboration with other research projects and stakeholders and with participants from both sides of the river basin (planned for February 2025 in Karasjok). An information meeting about the project Sharing our knowledge was arranged in Tanabru on 4 September and the project was one of the main organizers of the public meeting on Tana bridge on 2 October and a research symposium on salmon in indigenous areas in Utsjok on 3 and 4 October. Based on the experiences from these meetings, the steering group of the Sharing our knowledge project sees a need to put together a forum for cooperation on research on the Tana River Basin. We want to facilitate participation in a permanent forum for a broad group of organizations and individuals who want to get involved in research on the Tana River Basin, and in knowledge acquisition in general, such as under the auspices of the Tana River Basin Research and Monitoring Group. The experiences from the meetings and from dialogue with the Sami parliaments in Finland and Norway also show that it is particularly important to inform and ask for collective consent from not only individuals, but also from local communities when the research affects Sami cultural heritage and traditional knowledge. Such a process of collective consent is now underway under the auspices of the RecoSal project at LUKE among the Finnish fishing communities. With this, organizations and village associations on the Norwegian side of the river basin are also invited to this process.
Since we know that the organizations along the watercourse have valuable knowledge and insight, we want to invite a broad audience to participate in these research projects. A long-term goal is to establish permanent forums for collaboration on research with participants from all parts of the watercourse from the sea to tributaries on both sides of the border. We therefore invite all knowledge carriers along the entire habitat of the Tanalaksen from the coast to the upper tributaries to participate. We will need participants to both participate in the data collection itself and to participate in permanent forums that will help to develop research priorities and advice, among other things.
We hope that many will be interested in actively participating in the activities of the aforementioned institutions in the coming years. Participation can be compensated within the project periods of the projects. In particular, we now want to invite village associations and organizations to decide whether and in what way their organization/village association wants to participate in the projects, and what kind of wishes and needs you yourself have for research on the Tana River Basin.
Representatives from the rural associations and organizations will also be invited to a forum for collaboration on research on the Tana River Basin that Joddu will invite to in February 2025.
We serve a simple dinner - therefore we need registration from you.
Contact:
Hege Persen National Wild Salmon Center Tana - Joddu hege.persen@villakssenter.no
Phone 416 28 141
Camilla Brattland, UiT – Arctic University of Norway camilla.brattland@uit.no .
Photo: Paul Eric Aspholm
On Tuesday, November 26th, Næring og Rovvilt, NIBIO and SNO invite you to an exciting evening with a focus on bears in Tana and Finnmark.
Are you interested in learning more about the bear that lives among us? Whether you are involved in reindeer herding, sheep farming, or are just curious, you are most welcome to an educational and enjoyable evening.
The event is open to everyone and completely free! There will be access to coffee along the way, and we will also serve coffee food.
Paul Eric Aspholm
A researcher from NIBIO updates us on this year's results from the hair traps that have been in use.
Program:
18:00: Welcome to Bear Night, by Paul Eric Aspholm (NIBIO)
18:10: Elida Langstein from Næring og Rovvilt talks about the project
18:45: NIBIO presents this year's bear hair trap project from Tana , Karasjok and Porsanger – see results and findings!
20:00: SNO concludes with insight into the bear population in Finnmark.
Photo: Sergey Ivanov
Join us for a fun and educational evening!
Can't you participate in Tana We also arrange bear nights in:
Karasjok: Sápmi Ko, Wednesday 27 November at 18:00
Porsanger: Stabbursnes Nature House and Museum, Thursday, November 28 at 6:00 PM
Welcome to Bygdekafe with us Historian and Author Dag F. Simonsen
The lecture will be about the main features of the history of what is now Lower Tana , that is, what was Tana municipality until 1964. Dag will talk about stages in the development of the main industries and social life, especially in the period from about 1870 to about 1940. You must get this!
We are looking forward to it - and you are welcome!
Organizers:
Tana Center for healthy living/Deanu Álšaguovddáš
Deanu Gielda - Tana municipality
Spawning is the start of new salmon lives. Join us at the Spawning Festival with National Wild Salmon in Lærdal.
Photo: Camilla Brattland UiT, project manager for "Sharing our knowledge"
Joddu is engaged by UiT to coordinate contact between local communities along the Tanavassdraget and several research institutions that want to conduct research on topics that particularly involve local and traditional knowledge of the Tanavassdraget, in different ways and levels of research on the Tanavassdraget.
At the information meeting you will get more info about :
1. The RecoSal research project, led by LUKE and involving NINA and UiT together with Umeå University, aims to bring together bearers of local, traditional and scientific knowledge and rights holders to plan together what can be done to protect and rebuild salmon stocks and salmon fishing culture along the Tana River and its tributaries.
2. The newly launched project "Sharing our knowledge", in which UiT is part of an international project focusing on climate risk in watercourses that are the basis of indigenous culture, is collaborating with DeanuInstituhtta and Joddu to identify the need for knowledge about climate risk.
We know that the residents along the waterway have valuable knowledge and insight, so we would like to invite them to participate in these research projects. We therefore invite you to a non-binding information meeting at Scandic Hotel Karasjok on Monday, October 14.
Everyone is welcome!
Preservation of the salmon fishing culture along the Tana River
The People's Meeting is a meeting about preserving the salmon fishing culture along the Tana River basin organized by the Sami Parliament, the Sharing our knowledge project (UiT) and Joddu – National Wild Salmon Center.
The meeting will include introductions and lectures on the preservation of indigenous culture and salmon fishing in a context characterized by reductions in salmon stocks worldwide.
The target group is local residents and guests from the 2nd International Indigenous Salmon Peoples Gathering event taking place in Karasjok the previous days.
Interpretation will be provided between Sami, Norwegian and English and the event will be available on stream.
Program
Welcome with Hege Persen
musical performance by Andreas Gundersen and Mihka Helander
Moderator: John Trygve Solbakk.
informs about interpreting, visual scribe (Nikki),
Opening by the mayor of Tana - Jon Erland Balto
09:30 Coffee and fruit,
10:00 - 10:15 Greetings from the Sami Parliament by President Silje Karine Muotka
10:15 – 10:30 Greetings from the Minister of the Environment - video greeting
10:30 - 10:45 History of salmon fishing in Tanavassdraget, Aage Solbakk (DeanuInstituhtta)
10:45 Break - Coffee and cakes
Cultural preservation and public health
11:00 – 11:20 Preserving Indigenous Culture When Salmon Disappear. Introduction by invited guest from Mi'kmaw First Nation, Nova Scotia. Darren Sylvester
11:20 - 12:15 Panel discussion with invited guests, representatives from village teams and organizations.
Topic: What does it take for the Sami salmon fishing culture to survive?
Participants: Aage Solbakk, Darren Sylvester, Ellen Ravna, Olaf Trosten, Harry Johansen, Oskar Trosten, Sandra Marja West, Jon Erland Balto
Open for questions from the audience
Closing by John Trygve Solbakk
12:15 Lunch break - Salmon soup and cold buffet for 45 people + cake + coffee + tea The food is served by Café Kievra
13.00 - 15.30 River walk with guide Dag Broch, ending with Aage Solbakk and a bonfire in the shelters at Tanabru.
Join the stream: https://meeting.interactio.com/6y6t-pv69-57qs
We have finished the exhibitions in Lærdal and invite you to the official opening, combined with a professional seminar with several exciting presentations about wild salmon. The event is open to all.
Photo: Camilla Brattland UiT, project manager for "Sharing our knowledge"
Joddu is engaged by UiT to coordinate contact between local communities along the Tanavassdraget and several research institutions that want to conduct research on topics that particularly involve local and traditional knowledge of the Tanavassdraget, in different ways and levels of research on the Tanavassdraget.
At the information meeting you will get more info about :
1. The RecoSal research project, led by LUKE and involving NINA and UiT together with Umeå University, aims to bring together bearers of local, traditional and scientific knowledge and rights holders to plan together what can be done to protect and rebuild salmon stocks and salmon fishing culture along the Tana River and its tributaries.
2. The newly launched project "Sharing our knowledge", in which UiT is part of an international project focusing on climate risk in watercourses that are the basis of indigenous culture, is collaborating with DeanuInstituhtta and Joddu to identify the need for knowledge about climate risk.
We know that the organizations along the watercourse have valuable knowledge and insight, so we want to invite them to participate in these research projects.
Non-binding information meeting at Villakssenteret in Tana on Wednesday, September 4.
Everyone is welcome!
Visit our 10 stations along the popular "bridge round" in Namsos and find out things about salmon that you probably didn't know before.
Til topps i Tana og Nesseby is an activity campaign with mountain hikes for everyone. Through competition and the joy of hiking, Tana Frisklivssentral/Nesseby Frisklivssentral hopes to motivate people to make use of the beautiful nature we have in our local area.
Using the Trimpoeng app, all trips can be registered and you get different scores based on the difficulty of the trip.
Detailed descriptions of many of the tours can be found at godtur.no or ut.no
Registration of the trip
You register your trip in the app. If you run out of power, or forgot to bring your phone, you can send an email to post@kievra.no and we will register the trip for you. The app is called Trimpoeng and can be downloaded on Android and iPhone.
Premiering
The competition will run from June 1 until October 1.
Everyone who reaches a score of 80 points is entered into the draw for great prizes.
All prizes are sponsored by Intersport Tana. Here you will also find equipment for the trip.
The right of public access gives everyone the right to travel freely and stay wherever they want in nature - regardless of who owns the land. It also gives us the right to harvest from nature, such as saltwater fish, berries, mushrooms and wild flowers. We remind you that with this right also comes a duty to take care of nature and not leave traces or rubbish behind you.
More information can be found here :
All year round, as long as there is no snow, you can use the geocaching app downloaded to your smartphone to find our great caches that offer stories about wild salmon and the Namsen watercourse. When searching for our caches, look for great slate boxes. We won't reveal the content of the stories, but you'll find biological facts, legends, cultural history and tales. The caches are placed in beautiful locations along the Namsen watercourse from Namsos and up to Namsskogan. "We have named the trail "Salmon stories along the Namsen".
On Thursday, November 16, Paul Eric Aspholm from NIBIO National Wildlife Center will visit Tana - Joddu.
He will talk about this year's results from the hair traps that have been set out in the Tana Valley this year.
Paul Eric Aspholm
A researcher from NIBIO updates us on this year's results from the hair traps that have been in use.
The State Governor of Troms and Finnmark and SNO will also attend the meeting.
The aim of the event is to disseminate results from this year's hair trap and check the mood for the continuation of the projects for next year, and perhaps we will get an answer to whether the bear has started eating pink salmon ....
Photo: Sergey Ivanov
Welcome to a reading of the Salmon Chapter from the Truth and Reconciliation Report at Miljøbygget in Tana.
Nature guides from our departments in Lyngdal, Lærdal, Namsos and Tana gather to exchange experiences.
-Which today is undermined by the arrogance from the outside.
Lecture with Steinar Pedersen
Photo: Kjell Magne Johnsen
For school classes in Tana, Utsjok and Inari
Map history, natural names and place names in Tana
The program includes humpback salmon and experiences from the 2023 season in Finnmark.
Free for companies that are partners with Namsenvassdragets Elveeierlag.
For researchers, management, politicians, fishing associations and licensees
