Calendar
Here you will find an overview of events at the wild salmon center.
Outdoor camp for youth -Tana 2025
Outdoor camp for youth in Tana, summer 2025
Are you between 14-17 years old and would you like to do something fun and educational during your summer vacation? How about learning more about outdoor activities and trying out many different outdoor activities?
We are organizing an outdoor camp in Tana from Monday, July 7th to Thursday, July 10th, open to everyone in the age group, regardless of where you come from.
The outdoor camp takes place over four days, from Monday to Thursday:
Monday starts at 12:00 - meet at the Villaks Visitor Center in Tana.
Thursday is the return trip at 12:00 - pick up at the Villaks Visitor Center in Tana.
Number of participants: 15
Who can join: Everyone aged 14-17
Equipment: Nothing else is required other than clothes and shoes for northern Norwegian summer days, as well as a seat pad, drinking bottle and daypack. We will provide a lavvo and tent. If you have a sleeping pad, sleeping bag and fishing rod, please bring them. If not, please let us know when you register. We will buy food for all days. It is important that you state any allergies or other considerations in the registration form. You are responsible for your own snacks and drinks.
Leaders: Our skilled leaders have knowledge about outdoor activities and being active with youth.
Participation fee: FREE
The program: Fishing, shooting, salmon counting, salmon trapping, paddling, campfire and outdoor cooking, map and compass, first aid, swimming, nature trail, camping, hikes, expedition, overnight stay in tents and other exciting outdoor activities.
Practical information about the outdoor camp will be sent out to those registered as the time approaches, welcome! :)
Contact person/Registration: Ane Kvammen ane@perletur.no phone 907 17 520
Outdoor school in Tana 14-17 July
Outdoor school in Tana 14-17 July
Are you between 9 and 13 years old and want to do something fun and educational during the summer holidays?
Wild Salmon Visitor Center is collaborating with Finnmark Outdoor Council to organize Outdoor School again this year. How about learning more about outdoor life and trying many different outdoor activities? Then our outdoor schools are right up your alley. We are holding an outdoor school in Tana from Monday, July 14th to Thursday, July 17th.
The outdoor schools are held over four days, from Monday to Thursday:
Monday: start at 09:00, finish at 15:00
Tuesday: 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Wednesday: overnight stay, arrival at 0900
Thursday: finished at 2:00 PM
Workshop on climate change in the Deatnu/Tana River Basin
PROGRAM
10.30 Meeting at the humpback salmon trap . Observation of the trap together with the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, NIBIO, international research group, knowledge carriers and local experts.
12:00 Lunch at Kievra Cafe
13 00 Workshop at the Wild Salmon Center. The language is English and there will be translation to and from Norwegian.
Introduction of participants/the project/workshop.
Paul Eric Aspholm, NIBIO talks about data on climate change in the region.
How does climate change affect the river system?
Water experts from Cranfield University (England), Heather Smith and Andrea Momblanch, talk about climate risk in watercourses in general.
Local participants are invited to identify how climate change is affecting waterways, culture and society in the lower reaches of the Deatnu/Tana River Basin.
15:00 Departure
If you have any old or new photos, maps or anything else that illustrates changes in and around the river, how this affects you and yours, or what value the river and fishing have for you, please feel free to bring this to the workshop.
Welcome!
Book launch - 100 travel tips with Siri Haugen
This book contains tips on food, packing, clothing, accommodation and much more.
100 hiking tips with Siri Haugen is a book with Siri's very best hiking tips. She wrote this book to get more people out into nature and to make them feel like they have something to do there.
The goal of this book is to inspire more people to go out and dare to take the next step, such as sleeping outside in the winter, going on a trip to a new place, or perhaps taking a friend or family member with you on a trip.
Siri Haugen is 17 years old. She is from Ålesund and has spent countless hours outdoors in nature and the mountains in Ålesund and Sunnmøre, but she has also gone on trips in the rest of the country and abroad.
– I created the book to get more people out into nature, and for them to feel confident in what they are doing, and maybe take the next step of going somewhere new.
She is very adventurous and moved to Tana in Finnmark at the age of 15 to attend high school on a national dog sledding course. Dog sledding has become a sport she loves and her dream is to do long-distance dog sledding when she grows up.
Can the humpback salmon be stopped in the Tana River by 2025?
Open information meeting about the humpback salmon project in 2025 in the Environmental Building, Tana Bridge, Thursday 19 June at 6:00 PM.
Organizer: Norwegian Environment Agency and Norwegian Veterinary Institute
Now it is just before the humpback salmon will once again enter the rivers of Finnmark, probably in large numbers. The state has allocated a lot of money to combat the alien species, which originates and lives naturally in the Pacific Ocean.
In the Tana River, work is now underway to get the final details on the trap to be ready to stop the humpback salmon while allowing the tana salmon and other local fish to migrate both up and down the river with the least possible impact. By the end of June, a barrier fence with several entrance traps and downstream migration solutions will be in place at Seida. In addition to the barrier solution itself, improvements have been made to a number of details compared to the barrier fence and guardrail that stood at Seidaholmen in 2023.
In collaboration with Tana Municipality and the Tana River Basin Fisheries Management (TF), the Norwegian Environment Agency and the Norwegian Veterinary Institute are arranging a final information meeting before this year's season. There will be interpretation between Norwegian and Finnish. Please forward the information about the meeting to friends on both sides of the border.
Preliminary program, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM:
Norwegian Environment Agency - status and plans for humpback salmon control nationally and in Tana, including monitoring, research and development
The Norwegian Veterinary Institute – status and implementation of humpback salmon control at Seida in 2025
TF's plans for humpback salmon harvesting in Máskejohka and Luovvtejohka in 2025.
Coffee
Questions and discussion
Welcome!
Photo: Knut Sverre Horn
Annual Conference of the Norwegian National Park Municipalities
More information and program will come later.
Vettisløpet 2025
The traditional Vettisløpet will take place in Utladalen on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
Registration via EQtiming's solution. Here it is possible to register for both fitness and active classes.
Start :
Active classes: Sunday, May 25th at 1:00 PM
Trim: from 11:00
Starting fee: NOK 100 for the fitness class, NOK 150 for active 12-17 year olds and NOK 250 for active 18-99 year olds.
We encourage everyone to register in advance as the price increases to NOK 300 on race day.
See Vettislopet.com for registration!
Welcome to the most beautiful race of the spring 🙂
Season start in Utladalen
We are celebrating the start of the season in Utladalen with an opening weekend from May 1st to 4th. Activities and hiking competitions for young and old! Open to all.