Overview
Thirteen years of Norwegian-to-English and market-specific translation for the Norwegian Seafood Council, from aquaculture visitor-centre copy to press materials and historical trade storytelling.
Who This Is For
National seafood councils, agricultural export promotion bodies, trade associations, or industry membership organisations operating in 10-30+ export markets. Managing multilingual content for websites, reports, campaign materials, and market-specific communications across a large and growing number of languages.
The Challenge
The Norwegian Seafood Council promotes Norwegian seafood exports internationally, work that runs through a constantly expanding body of public-facing content: aquaculture visitor-centre descriptions, press releases, and market-facing web copy, all originating in Norwegian and needing to land credibly in English and, for specific export markets, other languages, without losing accuracy or tone.
Our Approach
Thirteen years of ongoing translation and localisation, not a single delivery. Recent assignments include English versions of descriptions for around thirty aquaculture visitor centres across Norway, among them Lofoten Seafood Center, Salmon Eye and Hardanger Akvasenter, alongside the Council's privacy and cookie-consent pages, portal and timeline copy for the visitor-centre network, and press materials for regional spokespeople. One assignment translated "Querinihistorien," the historical account of the 1431 Querini shipwreck used in Norwegian-Italian trade storytelling, into Italian for the market it speaks to.
Impact
A sustained, multi-year relationship rather than a one-off project: assignments run from 2013 through today. The range of material, legal and privacy text, tourism-style visitor copy, historical narrative, and press communications, shows the translation holds up across formats, not just one content type. The relationship keeps being recommissioned, assignment after assignment, year after year.
This relationship spans thirteen years: assignments from 2014 through 2017 were delivered while employed at Making Waves (later NoA Ignite), and recent assignments have been delivered directly, independent of any employer. Any public information referenced here is used for identification and does not imply endorsement.
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