The following are newspaper articles in Norwegian with partial translations.

Staten betaler for brenning av selfangst

May 31, 2006 [...]Norwegian sealers get 2,5 million in bounty to hunt 10.000 seals in the East Ice. Then the Bergen based firm Rieber gets 2 million from the State to burn the catch? [...] This years sealing has just finished. Six vessels participated, delivering altogether 15.000 seals. The State has set aside 16 milion in subsidies for the catch, landing and destruction, in other words 1000 kroner per animal. [...] Now is the time to burn the catch. Since the beginning of May the seal-bonfire has been burning round the clock at Senja Avfallsselskap [Senja waste company]. 2.5 tons of seal skins go up in smoke every day. The burning will continue until the end of June, the company informs to the newspaper Fiskaren.

Brenner selskinn med statsstøtte

May 31, 2006 [...]Thus the authorities choose to spend 2,5 million kroner in hunting subsidies to catch 10.000 adult harp seal [Phoca groenlandica] and 2 million in State subsidies to get rid of them, a total of 4,5 million kroner."

Selen skal utnyttes

June 3, 2006 [...]Leader of Norges Fiskarlag [Norwegian Fisheries Union ?] Reidar Nilsen is shaken that seal skins that are in demand by Arnfinn Karlsen of Polar Godt for 100 kr a piece, are burned by Senja Avfallsselskap. For two whole months the furnaces burn in order to get rid of 150 tons of seal products, including seal pelts that are subsidised with 200 kroner a piece. [...]Fisheries Minister Helga Pedersen underlines that the subsidies for the destruction is 1,5 million, 2 as stated by Fiskaren earlier. In addition 2,5 million is paid in shooting prizes for the 10.000 harp seals in the East Ice.

Skinn brennes etter fangsten

June 3, 2006 [...]"The reason we had to take grown harp seals was that the young were out of reach. There were plenty of seals, but the ice and weather conditions, combined with the young ones escaping to sea before the boats arrived, caused this years situation", says sealer Bjørne Kvernmo.

Brenner selskinn med statsstøtte

May 31, 2006, [...] "I have tried for sevral years to buy sealskins from grown harp seals, but have not succeeded. Instead I have to buy the skins from other sealing nations, says Arnfinn Karlsen who is presently in Greenland to buy seal products for his established company Polar Godt based in Tjørvåg in Sunnmøre."