Bård Tufte Johansen was dropped off Tromso students – NRK

Bård Tufte Johansen is known from shows such as goggles and Hour Post, but also from angling programs “Lars and Bard.”

On this occasion he is both funny and fish interested, then took the students who organize conferences “Hope in the Sea” contact Johansen to hear if he could introduce the speakers.

However, according to the Johansen himself writes on Facebook, then got pipa another song when he said that he came to sneering little with aquaculture.

– Students in Tromso can obviously homework: Let those with money decide.

Part of the Facebook post to Tufte Johansen:

” A funny little phone this week.

– Hello we are calling from the conference “Hope in Sea” a conference organized by students at the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics at the University of Tromsø. WE wonder if you can introduce lectures on the academic part and entertain during dinner hours.

I check the calendar and think that the maybe I can.

– Yes I can well do. But for the sake of clarity. I must have free rein to mess around with the negative aspects of fish farming.

There will be quiet. “

He ends the post by writing that students first had to listen with aquaculture, and that they then went for another alternative.

At the end of the post he comes with a sleivspark to students:

– Students in Tromso can obviously lesson saying, Let those with money decide.

– Incorrect presentation

Chairman of “Hope in Sea” Ceselia Høyvik Rokne, rejects to NRK that telephone contact with Bård Tufte Johansen has been happening so he describes it.

– We took on an independent basis in touch with him, knowing that he is humorist and diligent when it comes to fishing, tells Høyvik Rokne.

Chairman of” Hope in Sea “says to NRK that they contacted Bård Tufte Johansen to hear how much he would charge to attend the conference, and that it was the high fee comedian demanded, which meant that they chose not to hire him.

Photo: Adnan Icagic

She says that it never was talk that they might hear with the aquaculture industry first.

– We are misrepresented in his post. It was because of the high fees he demanded that we had to take it up on the board first.

Before Bård Tufte Johansen embarked their Facebook status, so had “Hope in Sea” according styrelderen sent him an e-mail saying that it was not applicable to rehire him, and that the reason was the fee.

Cooperating with several of the largest farming

Hope in sea is a academic conference held annually at UiT Norway’s Arctic university.

The partners of the conference are, among others, the Norwegian Seafood Council, Salmar, Lerøy, Nofima, Lerøy Seafood Group, Nergård, Skretting and EWOS.

Salmar is one of the world’s largest producers of farmed salmon. While both Grieg Seafood and Leroy is a leader in production and distribution of seafood in Norway, including farmed fish.