12-year-olds would sell crab. So called Fisheries. – Aftenposten

– I asked if she would buy crab, but she would not. Instead she said that what we was doing was illegal, says Gard Leinebø.

The two tolvårigene from Herøy at Sunnmøre wanted something useful to engage in school holidays. They started the company K and G Crab.

– We started with ten pots. We had been helped to acquire boat with crab tails aboard. Without crab tails becomes a bit heavy to get up cobblestones, says Konrad Stenersen Nett.no.

Torje Thorsen Torvik, also a buddy in twelve years, made website for new focus.

– Torje savvy on the computer and created a website to help us sell crab.

– page fight tough, says Gard and Konrad, the online newspaper for business and community in western Norway and in Nordfjord.

the goal was to get paid for the gasoline

They say that first goal with crab sales were to acquire more pots and pay for the gasoline.

– Maybe we eventually could have got us a larger boat and have pots farther from land.

It started well. To family and close friends were crab claws cooked and sold to 100 million kilo. After the first week could the two crab fishermen indulge in a company dinner at the hamburger on the menu.

But then the problems started:

– Two days since we placed out home, ringde Fisheries and wanted to know what we were doing, says Gard.

There were several problems, the boys were under 13 and therefore had no tax deduction. In addition there are a number reporting arrangements to be followed.

Not old enough

Gard contacted his father, Arnstein Leinebø who called Sunnmøre and Romsdal Fishermen.

– where they said it was not sure we could get a permit to fish and sell because we were not old enough to get free cards. But they should consider the application.

Stopped sales

After Nett.no publicized case a few days ago, the boys got the permission they need. Now they take up again the crab fishery, and familiarize themselves with the reporting required, with the father as responsible for the next year.

Gard and companion thus come out of a difficult situation, after they first removed the home and stopped crab sales.

– We could not risk being Bura inside. At least not now during the summer holidays

– Good approach to the labor market

Arnstein Leinebø, father of Gard Leinebø mean boys deserve credit for both ingenuity and desire to work.

He has been a fisherman and fishing boat owner, and believes crab for children and youth is ein good way to approach working life, and an activity that has taken place along the coast through generations.

– the rules Do not be so complicated that it becomes too difficult for young people who want to work and create, he said.

Directorate: – We should have contacted the parents

– there are in no way normal that we contact children directly, so that we regret, said acting communications Director Anette Aase Directorate of Fisheries to Nett.no.

She said that the Directorate wants to encourage young people to engage in commercial fishing in a certain scale, including through the so-called youth fishing scheme that gives youth the opportunity to engage in fishing in the summer holidays.

Anette Aase also maintains that the rules for recreational fishing are not designed to make it difficult for young people to fish , learn and have fun at sea.

– for the individual recreational fishing, child or adult, it may seem strange that their fishing matters in the grand scheme.

She notes that in Norway the individual may freely fish in the sea for their own consumption, and that can provide for up to 50,000 crowns if the sale goes through a sales organization.

– one can fish for their own consumption without report it anywhere, but if a fisherman so much that one can not eat it all yourself, it is important that your sales go through the sales team or a buyer approved by the sales team.