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This article is about the different hunting grounds that Norwegians traveled to: the West Ice, Newfoundland, the Svalbard area/North Ice, the East Ice and the White Sea. Johannes Bjarne Alme and Webjørn Landmark write about the different hunting grounds.

Seal hunting has been practiced along our coast for thousands of years. Seals were easy to catch and provided a lot of nutritious food for a growing coastal population, although it was probably the fat that was most important, even then.

1898 was a landmark year for the fishermen from Sunnmøre. Severin Brandal, father of Peter S. Brandal, took the lead in establishing seal fishing from Sunnmøre. Both men had noticed for several years, while fishing for cod in Finnmarka, that the skates there were loaded with skins and blubber from seals.