Fishing Village Protected

On Friday, the King of Norway decided in cabinet to protect the Henningsvær cultural environment in Vågan, Northern Norway. This is the thirteenth cultural environment being protected this way in Norway. The fishing village tells an important part of Norway's history, writes the Norwegian government in a press release.

"Henningsvær is one our historically most important fishing villages and it tells an important part of Norway's history. The cultural environment is of national value and shows the development from rowing village to a modern fishing village from the 1800s to the present day," says Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment Espen Barth Eide.

The purpose of the protection is to preserve Henningsvær's cultural environment as a good example of the developmental history along the Norwegian coast. The fishing village shows the development from rowing village to a modern fishing village with different livelihoods from the beginning of the 1800s until the present.