Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy

The Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy (Bokmål: Fiskeri- og havministeren) is a councilor of state in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. The incumbent minister is Marianne Sivertsen Næss of the Labour Party who has served since April 2024.

Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy of Norway
Fiskeri- og havministeren
Incumbent Marianne Sivertsen Næss since 19 April 2024
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
Member of	Council of State
Seat	Oslo
Nominator	Prime Minister of Norway
Appointer	Monarch With approval of Parliament
Term length	No fixed length
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Norway
Formation	1 July 1946
First holder	Reidar Carlsen
Deputy	State secretaries for the Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy
Website	Official website

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, Industry and Fisheries, alongside the Minister of Trade and Industry.^[1]

Ministers

Key
  Conservative Party
  Centre Party
  Labour Party
  Progress Party

List of ministers

Photo	Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Cabinet	Ref
	Reidar Carlsen	Labour	1 July 1946	19 November 1951	5 years, 141 days	Gerhardsen II	[2]
	Peder Holt	Labour	19 November 1951	22 January 1955	3 years, 64 days	Torp	[3]
	Nils Lysø	Labour	22 January 1955	28 August 1963	8 years, 218 days	Gerhardsen III	[4]
	Onar Onarheim	Conservative	28 August 1963	25 September 1963	28 days	Lyng	[5]
	Magnus Andersen	Labour	25 September 1963	12 October 1965	2 years, 17 days	Gerhardsen IV	[6]
	Oddmund Myklebust	Centre	12 October 1965	8 November 1968	3 years, 27 days	Borten	[7]
	Einar Moxnes	Centre	8 November 1968	17 March 1971	2 years, 129 days		[7]
	Knut Hoem	Labour	17 March 1971	24 January 1972	313 days	Bratteli I	[8]
	Magnus Andersen	Labour	24 January 1972	18 October 1972	268 days		[8]
	Trygve Olsen	Centre	18 October 1972	16 October 1973	363 days	Korvald	[9]
	Eivind Bolle	Labour	16 October 1973	14 October 1981	7 years, 363 days	Bratteli II Nordli Brundtland I	[10][11] [12]
	Thor Listau	Conservative	14 October 1981	4 October 1985	3 years, 355 days	Willoch I-II	[13]
	Eivind Reiten	Centre	4 October 1985	9 May 1986	217 days	Willoch II	[13]
	Bjarne Mørk-Eidem	Labour	9 May 1986	10 October 1989	3 years, 154 days	Brundtland II	[14]
	Svein Munkejord	Conservative	16 October 1989	3 November 1990	1 year, 18 days	Syse	[15]
	Oddrunn Pettersen	Labour	3 November 1990	4 September 1992	1 year, 306 days	Brundtland III	[16]
	Jan Henry T. Olsen	Labour	4 September 1992	25 October 1996	4 years, 51 days		[16]
	Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen	Labour	25 October 1996	17 October 1997	357 days	Jagland	[17]
	Peter Angelsen	Centre	17 October 1997	21 January 2000	2 years, 96 days	Bondevik I	[18]
	Lars Peder Brekk	Centre	21 January 2000	17 March 2000	56 days		[18]
	Otto Gregussen	Labour	17 March 2000	19 October 2001	1 year, 216 days	Stoltenberg I	[19]
	Svein Ludvigsen	Conservative	19 October 2001	17 October 2005	3 years, 363 days	Bondevik II	[20]
	Helga Pedersen	Labour	17 October 2005	2 October 2009	3 years, 350 days	Stoltenberg II	[21]
	Lisbeth Berg-Hansen	Labour	20 October 2009	16 October 2013	3 years, 361 days		[21]
	Elisabeth Aspaker	Conservative	16 October 2013	16 December 2015	2 years, 61 days	Solberg	[22]
	Per Sandberg	Progress	16 December 2015	13 August 2018	2 years, 240 days		[23]
	Harald T. Nesvik	Progress	13 August 2018	24 January 2020	1 year, 164 days		[24]
	Geir-Inge Sivertsen	Conservative	24 January 2020	2 March 2020	38 days		[25][26]
	Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen	Conservative	13 March 2020	14 October 2021	1 year, 215 days		[27]
	Bjørnar Skjæran	Labour	14 October 2021	16 October 2023	2 years, 2 days	Støre	[28]
	Cecilie Myrseth	Labour	16 October 2023	19 April 2024	186 days		[29]
	Marianne Sivertsen Næss	Labour	19 April 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 108 days		[30]