Acknowledgements

This report was developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from DNV, DTU, and SLU.

Authors

DNV Sigurd Pettersen (project manager), Bente Pretlove (project sponsor), Øivin Aarnes, Lisa-Victoria Bernhardt, Mari Vold Bjordal, Hans Berg Nåvik, Holly Perryman, and Odnan Ref Sanchez.

DTU David Lusseau, Berthe Vastenhoud

SLU Lena Bergström, Marcus C. Öhman

External consultations

A number of consultations with stakeholders within the Nordic ocean economy have been carried out in preparing this report. Most of these consultations were conducted as interviews with questions about current and future trends, scenario pathways, and the potential for Nordic collaboration in the ocean economy. The experts consulted were:

Name	Organization	Country
Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
Eirill Mehammer Bachmann	DNV	Norway
Andrea Belgrano	SLU	Sweden
Peter Brun	DNV	Denmark
Arnstein Eknes	DNV	Norway
Øystein Engelhardsen	DNV	Norway
Søren Enghoff	Spoor	Norway
Carolyn Faithfull	SLU	Sweden
Frode Dal Fjeldavli	Norwegian Research Council	Norway
Jose Jorge Garcia Agis	Ulstein	Norway
Trude Jansen Hagland	NCE Seafood Innovation	Norway
Koen Pieter Houweling	DNV	Norway
Jens Laugesen	Ambiente Consulting	Norway
Torsten Linders	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
Joel Lindholm	Under Ytan	Åland
Meri Kallasvuo	Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)	Finland
Martin Karlsson	Swedish Agency for Water and Marine Management	Sweden
Tsimafei Kazlou	University of Bergen	Norway
Kim Kristensen	Arctic Seaweed	Norway
Sigri Stokke Nilsen	UiT/Center for the Ocean and the Arctic	Norway
Emma Nohrén	Parliament committee on Environment and Agriculture	Sweden
Trude Olafsen	AKVA Group	Norway
Konráð Hatlemark Olavsson	Blar Akur	Iceland
Monica Olsen	Ytre Hvaler National park	Norway
Riikka Puntila-Dodd	Åbo Akademi University	Finland
Carl Fredrik Rehn	Pascal Technologies	Norway
Silje Båtsvik Risholm	Bellona	Norway
Kristin Sande	Danish Shipping	Denmark
Sven Amund Skotheim	Kaldvik	Iceland
Linda Sundström	Government of Åland	Åland
Sebastian Valanko	ICES	Denmark

Reviewers

Selected experts were also invited to review the final report. The following DNV colleagues contributed as reviewers of the report: Per Arild Åland, Caryl Benjamin, Ingeborg Hutcheson Fiskvik, Trude Heggstad, Eduard Romanenko and Nafiha Usman.