# 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.
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.

## Ministers

Key  Conservative Party  Centre Party  Labour Party  Progress Party

### List of ministers

| Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Cabinet | Ref |
| Reidar Carlsen | Labour | 1 July 1946 | 19 November 1951 | 5 years, 141 days | Gerhardsen II | |
| Peder Holt | Labour | 19 November 1951 | 22 January 1955 | 3 years, 64 days | Torp | |
| Nils Lysø | Labour | 22 January 1955 | 28 August 1963 | 8 years, 218 days | Gerhardsen III | |
| Onar Onarheim | Conservative | 28 August 1963 | 25 September 1963 | 28 days | Lyng | |
| Magnus Andersen | Labour | 25 September 1963 | 12 October 1965 | 2 years, 17 days | Gerhardsen IV | |
| Oddmund Myklebust | Centre | 12 October 1965 | 8 November 1968 | 3 years, 27 days | Borten | |
| Einar Moxnes | Centre | 8 November 1968 | 17 March 1971 | 2 years, 129 days | Borten | |
| Knut Hoem | Labour | 17 March 1971 | 24 January 1972 | 313 days | Bratteli I | |
| Magnus Andersen | Labour | 24 January 1972 | 18 October 1972 | 268 days | Bratteli I | |
| Trygve Olsen | Centre | 18 October 1972 | 16 October 1973 | 363 days | Korvald | |
| 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 | |
| Eivind Reiten | Centre | 4 October 1985 | 9 May 1986 | 217 days | Willoch II | |
| Bjarne Mørk-Eidem | Labour | 9 May 1986 | 10 October 1989 | 3 years, 154 days | Brundtland II | |
| Svein Munkejord | Conservative | 16 October 1989 | 3 November 1990 | 1 year, 18 days | Syse | |
| Oddrunn Pettersen | Labour | 3 November 1990 | 4 September 1992 | 1 year, 306 days | Brundtland III | |
| Jan Henry T. Olsen | Labour | 4 September 1992 | 25 October 1996 | 4 years, 51 days | Brundtland III | |
| Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen | Labour | 25 October 1996 | 17 October 1997 | 357 days | Jagland | |
| Peter Angelsen | Centre | 17 October 1997 | 21 January 2000 | 2 years, 96 days | Bondevik I | |
| Lars Peder Brekk | Centre | 21 January 2000 | 17 March 2000 | 56 days | Bondevik I | |
| Otto Gregussen | Labour | 17 March 2000 | 19 October 2001 | 1 year, 216 days | Stoltenberg I | |
| Svein Ludvigsen | Conservative | 19 October 2001 | 17 October 2005 | 3 years, 363 days | Bondevik II | |
| Helga Pedersen | Labour | 17 October 2005 | 2 October 2009 | 3 years, 350 days | Stoltenberg II | |
| Lisbeth Berg-Hansen | Labour | 20 October 2009 | 16 October 2013 | 3 years, 361 days | Stoltenberg II | |
| Elisabeth Aspaker | Conservative | 16 October 2013 | 16 December 2015 | 2 years, 61 days | Solberg | |
| Per Sandberg | Progress | 16 December 2015 | 13 August 2018 | 2 years, 240 days | Solberg | |
| Harald T. Nesvik | Progress | 13 August 2018 | 24 January 2020 | 1 year, 164 days | Solberg | |
| Geir-Inge Sivertsen | Conservative | 24 January 2020 | 2 March 2020 | 38 days | Solberg | [25] [26] |
| Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen | Conservative | 13 March 2020 | 14 October 2021 | 1 year, 215 days | Solberg | |
| Bjørnar Skjæran | Labour | 14 October 2021 | 16 October 2023 | 2 years, 2 days | Støre | |
| Cecilie Myrseth | Labour | 16 October 2023 | 19 April 2024 | 186 days | Støre | |
| Marianne Sivertsen Næss | Labour | 19 April 2024 | Incumbent | 321 days | Støre | |