It's part of their identity.

I come from the village of Nyrkken, which is in the tetno river valley i basically grew up fishing salmon like when i was a kid i already started helping out my father it's a kind of practice where you have to really try to think like the salmon or think what what does the salmon think here because uh It's really not easy to catch Atlantic salmon because it's a very wise fish and it's very cautious as well.

So if you just randomly put up a net then you will most likely get nothing.

So you have to kind of know what is the movement of the salmon, how does it swim and what does it think.

And you have to kind of learn how to trick it into going into the net.

So there is a lot of this planning and reasoning, which is part of the whole practice.

It's a lot of trying to be smarter than the salmon in a way.

At the heart of the disagreement are concerns about colonization and which voices are being heard and taken into account in both research and management discussions.