Several Norwegian agencies conducted joint inspections in winter 2025, examining 85 fish transports and over 60 batches of fish and seafood. Inspectors found multiple regulatory violations, including trucks leaking blood water onto roadways, leading to several driving bans. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority identified inadequate traceability systems at cold storage facilities, issuing violation notices to Thermo-Transitt and Oslo Seafood Center.
The authority also halted the sale of a batch of mature fish too poor to sell as food. Thermo-Transit stated the case is closed and blamed a misunderstanding, while Oslo Seafood Center denied system failures but acknowledged needing to balance regulations differently. In 2024, NRK revealed smuggling of 'production fish'—salmon with sores and defects—out of Norway.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority lacked sanctions to stop such smuggling, but inspections at border crossings found no production fish being transported.