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Frøya and Hitra are two islands on the North-West coast of Norway, about due west of the city of Trondheim. The fishing industry has from the very early days, been the main source of income. Over the later years, salmon farming has grown to a very large industry. Due to the Gulf Stream, the climate is quite mild during the winter. Therefore, you will find blooming wild flowers inbetween barren rock and crevices. Even wild deer thrive on the larger island Hitra.
In the older times, fishing from small, open boats was a hard life. And in 1899 a very violent storm took the lives of 141 fishermen from municipalities along the whole of the Western Norwegian coast, in some cases wiping out the whole male part of the families.
West of Frøya is yet another group of small islands - Sula and Mausund. The islands have for ages been the sites of fisheries. The island was first populated around the year 1300.The importance grew, and in 1960 some 500 people lived on Sula, but today only a handful remain year around. However, during summer time a lot of people return. The area around Mausund is the home of salmon farming, as the waters is very fresh from the Atlantic Ocean, yet sheltered by the many smaller islands and shoales.
