The second issue of the newsletter of the European project FISHERNET: Fishing Cultural Heritage Network in which the Stefansson Arctic Institute is a partner, has now been published. This is a three year project funded by the European Union Culture Programme. Key participants in addition to Iceland are Galicia (Spain), Norway, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and the Orkneys (Great Britain). The object of the project is the preservation, dissemination and utilisation of cultural heritage connected with fisheries, seafaring peoples and the unique cultural of coastal fishing communities. The Stefansson Arctic Institute contributes to the project in various ways but with a special focus on fishing cultural heritage in Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The Icelandic component is called ´Trossan´ and can in part be observed through the website www. fishernet.is.

The FISHERNET newsletter provides stories and news from the various project partners, including an item on the Foldal fishfactory in Finnmark, Norway which is today used as a cultural centre with an arena for concerts and festivals, a living museum, a gallery and accommodation for tourists. There is a story concerning adaptive capacity in the Orkneys and information on the  meeting of the project partners in Iceland May 2010. During that time the group will we traveling to Reykjavík, Siglufjörður, Húsavík and Akureyri where an international seminar called ´The wealth of sea and coast: Initiatives, innovation and use of cultural heritage‘ will be held on May 7th 2010.

The newsletter can be downloaded at http://www. fishernet.is  where you can also find a variety of material useful for research or general interest,  such as articles and essayes related to fisheries and coastal culture in Iceland and the northern North Atlantic.