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	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: B :: Barents Sea
		Barents Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean, north of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west.
		The Barents Sea waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift, so that its ports, including Murmansk and Vardo, are ice-free all year.
		The Barents Council was founded in 1993 by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden to foster co-operation between countries in the region.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/b/barents_sea.shtml (254 words)

	RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: B :: Barents Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Barents Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean, north of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west.
		The Barents Sea waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift, so that its ports, including Murmansk and Vardo, are ice-free all year.
		The Barents Council was founded in 1993 by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden to foster co-operation between countries in the region.
	www.east-european-services.com /encyclo/b/print/barents_sea.shtml (196 words)

	WILLEM BARENTS - LoveToKnow Article on WILLEM BARENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Barents vessel, after rounding the north of Novaya Zemlya, was beset by ice and he was compelled to winter in the north; and as his ship was not released early in 1597, his party left her in two open.
		Barents himself, however, died on the 30th of June 1597.
		In 1871 the house in which he wintered was discovered, with many relics, which are preserved at the Hague, and in 1875 part of his journal was found.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BARENTS_WILLEM.htm (250 words)

	The Barents Euro-Arctic Council
		With the membership of Finland and Sweden in 1995, the European Union acquired a new Northern dimension, and the eastern border of Finland became the border between EU and the Russian Federation.
		The Barents Euro-Arctic Council was formally established on Norway's initiative in January 1993 in Kirkenes, Norway.
		The structure of the Barents cooperation is two-layered, and in a way unique: a large number of issues of local importance is run by the Regional Council, while the governments retain the decisionmaking authority in matters of major significance, especially in the political and economic domain.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/barents.html (928 words)

	Barents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For example, measurements of PCBs in polar bears in the Barents Sea have shown average concentrations of 20 mg/kg and a maximum of 90 mg/kg in fatty tissue.
		In parts of the Barents Region, such as northern Norway, where fisheries and fish farming industries depend on pure sea food, an oil spill could have negative economic consequences for the industry and for coastal societies in general.
		However, the effects of climate change on the areas around the Barents Sea are extremely difficult to forecast, due, for example, to the uncertainty concerning changes in the Gulf Stream.
	arcticcentre.urova.fi /barentsinfo/ENVIRONM/03.htm (3482 words)

	Barents Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Barents Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and Russia.
		Until the Winter War Finland 's territory also reached to the Barents with the harbor at Petsamo was Finland's only ice-free winter harbor.
		Nuclear contamination from dumped Russian naval reactors is an environmental concern in the Barents Sea.
	www.freeglossary.com /Barents_Sea (302 words)

	Barentsinfo : Ulapland.fi/Kotisivut/Barents portal/Content by Category/Education & Research
		Working Group on Education and Research - Exisiting network within the Barents Region for cooperation in the fields of education and research.
		Barents Education Network is working towards the goals of increasing international cooperation and promoting access to higher education institutions are the providers of cutting-edge knowledge, excellence and know-how in Northern issues
		Research, Education and Environment in the Barents region [pdf] - articles of this publication are based on papers, which were presented in an international seminar in Murmansk.
	www.barentsinfo.org /?deptid=14201 (390 words)

	Barents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Nordic parts of the Barents Region are the Provinces of Lapland and Oulu in Finland, the Counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten in Sweden, and the Counties of Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark in Norway.
		The snow cover in the Barents Region can be as thick as 5-10 m in the mountain valleys, approximately 1-1.5 m in the sub-arctic forests, but only 40-60 cm in the tundra and northern taiga forests.
		The northernmost counties of the Nordic region are situated on the border of the boreal forest belt and the tundra area.
	arcticcentre.urova.fi /barentsinfo/economic/05/01.html (3583 words)

	Barents
		The Nordic parts of the Barents Region are the Provinces of Lapland and Oulu in Finland, the Counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten in Sweden, and the Counties of Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark in Norway.
		The snow cover in the Barents Region can be as thick as 5-10 m in the mountain valleys, approximately 1-1.5 m in the sub-arctic forests, but only 40-60 cm in the tundra and northern taiga forests.
		The northernmost counties of the Nordic region are situated on the border of the boreal forest belt and the tundra area.
	arcticcentre.ulapland.fi /barentsinfo/economic/05/01.html (3583 words)

	Norwegian Petroleum Directorate - 7 The Barents Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The results of the latest wells drilled in the Barents Sea were encouraging and the area may prove to add considerably to the already recoverable resources.
		The Barents Sea and the areas in the Norwegian Sea in deep water and off Lofoten are believed to constitute a petroleum province where it is feasible to make large discoveries in the future.
		The liquid reserves in the Barents Sea, amounting to 6 per cent, comprise NGL and condensate from the Snøhvit field, the oil in the oil zone there being classified as contingent resources.
	www.npd.no /NR/exeres/EAE2E544-A970-42B6-8C22-FFE250501E75.htm?NRMODE=Unpublished (1027 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Barents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Probably known to Norsemen in the 12th cent., it was rediscovered by Willem Barentz, the Dutch...
		Almost landlocked, it is connected to the more northerly Barents Sea by a long, narrow strait known as the Gorlo.
		It is the terminus of the Northeast Passage and the world's largest city N of the Arctic Circle, with a polar research institute.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Barents&StartAt=11 (737 words)

	LME 20 Barents Sea LME
		The Barents Sea Large Marine Ecosystem is a high-latitude ecosystem; an extreme environment because of the high latitude, large seasonal and annual changes in ocean climate, and its position near the Arctic Ocean.
		The Barents Sea LME is an important feeding area for cod, capelin, haddock, herring, sea perch, catfish, plaice, halibut, Atlantic salmon and redfish, and it supports a large fishery.
		The Barents Sea LME is bordered by Norway and Russia.
	na.nefsc.noaa.gov /lme/text/lme20.htm (1662 words)

	Barents Youth Server (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Taking into consideration specific characteristics of the region such as severe harsh climate, sparse population and vast territory it should be noted that one third of the population is young people aged to 25 years.
		The Conference on the Barents Euro-Arctic Region Cooperation in the Youth Field, Rovaniemi, September 10.-12.
		In the period from 10 to 13 march the biggest youth meeting of Barents region took place dedicated to youth co-operation.
	barents.sampo.ru /history?category=forum&doc=history&lang=e&page=0 (247 words)

	AllRefer.com - Barents Sea (Arctic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Barents Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west.
		Its waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift, so that its ports, including Murmansk and VardO, are ice-free all year.
		The Barents Council was founded in 1993 by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden to foster cooperation between countries in the region.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BarentsS.html (227 words)

	USGS Open File Report 99-50N, South and North Barents Russian Offshore Arctic - Province
		The priority South Barents Basin Province (#1050) is northwest of and adjacent to the Russian Timan-Pechora Basin Province (#1008; Lindquist, 1999) and west of the southern part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
		The exact origin of the mostly Mesozoic eastern Barents basins and the age of the basin floors are uncertain.
		East Barents magnetic rocks are known or postulated to exist in the basement, locally within Devonian carbonates, in the basin centers as sills within Triassic siliciclastics, and in the northern regions of Franz Josef Land and Svalbard within Jurassic through Early Cretaceous rocks.
	greenwood.cr.usgs.gov /energy/WorldEnergy/OF99-50N/province.html (909 words)

	Barents Press
		Barents Press is likely to be the most succesful form of journalistic cross-border co-operation that can be found in Europe.
		Barents Press board meetings are usually held at Saariselkä due to the central location (long distance from everywhere) and due to the Finnish Journalist Union that has got a cottage there.
		Barents Press is also an "umbrella" for many kinds of journalist co-operation that has taken place between North-West Russia and the Nordic countries - or Western Europe.
	www.barentspress.org /?tjeneste=43 (1126 words)

	KBIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Barents Programme is the Regional Council's programme for making concrete how to achieve the overall goals set up for the regional work and supporting the ongoing changes in the Russian part.
		The EU has, in collaboration with the Barents Euro-Arctic Region, the political and economical resources that are necessary to take part in the administering of this treasure chest for the common good of the people in the region and the European Community.
		The Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes (Norway) invited higher educational institutions in the Russian part of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR), including the universities of the Komi Republic to tender for the establishment of a Barents Virtual University Secretariat...
	barents.sampo.ru /xtra/bprogram.html (2380 words)

	Barents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The themes of the conference are youth policy cooperation in the structures of the Barents region and the cooperation between various actors within the Barents region as well as with other European regions.
		A seminar for officials titled "The Barents Euro-Arctic Region Cooperation in the Youth Field" was held in Saariselkä, Finland, and Murmansk, Russia, in the autumn of 1998.
		The Ministry of Education, the Barents Regional Council and the Centre for International Mobility CIMO in cooperation with the Commission of the European Union.
	www.minedu.fi /eupresidency/eng/meetings/barentso.html (221 words)

	Aviation International News // Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to Galaxy president and CEO Brian Barents, the Dallas/Fort Worth-based company is conducting a market study focusing on placing priorities on production development and the possible launch of a new ³product initiative² sometime in the next year.
		Barents claimed the Galaxy has suffered from none of the ³chronic squawks² expected of a new airplane.
		Finally, Barents said Galaxy Aerospace is also conducting an operator survey to determine the shape and extent of a performance enhancement package for Westwind operators that might include reduced vertical separation minimums (RVSM) as part of the avionics upgrade.
	www.ainonline.com /Publications/nbaa/NBAA_00/nbaa00d1_galaxy.html (847 words)

	William Barents - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic
		The Barents Sea (formerly called the Murmean Sea) is an extension of the Arctic Ocean lying north of Norway and Russia.
		In northern sections of the Barents sea, the average winter air temperature is -13° F, but the Russian port of Murmansk remains ice-free in winter, partly because of the North Cape Current.
		The Dutch navigator William Barents, for whom the Barents Sea is named, is one of the more renowned of the early European explorers of the Arctic.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /exploration/barents.aspx (438 words)

	Dolgov: Feeding by Barents Sea Skates
		The purpose of the study is to describe their diets and estimate the effects of their predation on commercial stocks of fishes and crustaceans from analysis of stomach contents.
		This applies to studies both in the Barents Sea (Zenkevich and Brotskaya, 1931; Antipova and Nikiforova, 1983; Berestovsky, 1989) and in the rest of the North Atlantic (Templeman, 1982; Pedersen, 1995; Bjelland et al., 2000; Skjæraasen and Bergstad, 2000).
		By-catch of skates in trawl and long-line fisheries in the Barents Sea.
	journal.nafo.int /35/dolgov/dolgov-main.html (2101 words)

	Barents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The regional fish resources in north-west Russia are found in the Barents Sea, the White Sea, the Kara and Pechora Seas, and in the fresh inland waters.
		The destruction of herring, polar cod and capelin in the Barents Sea triggered the degeneration of North Atlantic cod population.
		The Belomorean seals used to migrate to the eastern part of the Barents Sea, but in 1986 were forced to change their migration route from the Murmansk coast to Norway.
	arcticcentre.urova.fi /barentsinfo/economic/02/05.html (1292 words)

	Barents Sea -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is bounded by the archipelagoes of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land (north), the Norwegian and Russian...
		The chief fishing ports are Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea (which connects with the Atlantic), Murmansk and Archangel on the Barents Sea (Arctic), and Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan (Pacific).
		It ranges from the Barents Sea north of Siberia to the western Mediterranean Sea south of Spain.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9273108 (1011 words)

	Arctic Change: Marine Ecosystem - Barents Sea
		The Barents Sea is the continental shelf north of the Scandanavian peninsula.
		Cod stocks in the Barents Sea are influenced both by fishing and by climate.
		Climatic Atlas of the Barents Sea 1998: Temperature, salinity, oxygen.
	www.arctic.noaa.gov /detect/marine-barents.shtml (264 words)

	Nordic Culture > Travel > The Barents Road in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia - Scandinavica.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Barents Region is the name of the land area by the Barents Sea in northern Europe, which stretches along Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
		Today, the Barents Road is an ideal way to discover the north of Europe in a very unique journey of adventure, enjoyment and relaxation for travellers of all ages.
		The Barents Road International Association was formed in 1997 and works to promote increased cooperation among all of the countries that the Barents Road traverses – Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/travel/barents.htm (1622 words)

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		The discovery of the crater in the Barents Sea was a coincidence.
		An overview of the estimates of consumption by predators on the main fish stocks in the Barents Sea is given.
		The systematic study of species composition and distribution of the bottom invertebrates started in the Barents Sea with the intensification of the fisheries in the last quarter of the 19th century.
	www.lycos.com /info/barents-sea.html (473 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Norway to target Barents Sea for licensing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Norway awards new licenses for oil and gas drilling this summer, it will focus on the South Barents Sea, where one-third of Norway's undiscovered petroleum resources are estimated to lie, energy ministry officials said Friday.
		Statoil ASA, Norway's state-owned oil and gas company, estimated the Norwegian side of the Barents holds around 8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
		The 19th licensing round is the door-opener for the Barents as "a future strong petroleum province," Widvey said.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/02/04/norway_to_target_barents_sea_for_licensing (400 words)

	Public opinion
		The remaining part of the population (40%)consider that the barents Region programs either do not touch upon their life or they do not have any personal point of view and can not answer this question.
		The number of respondents knowing nothing about the Barents cooperation - about 55% (Question 4) is comparative to a number of indifferent respondents (Question 5): 20% consider that Barents projects do not influence their life and 40% do not have any personal point of view which totally give a number of 60%.
		Keeping in mind that one of the main task of the barents cooperation is to continue and strengthen the traditions of good neighbourhood between the Northern of Scandinavian countries and Russia, the development of public relations will afford to make finacial investments to the projects more efficient without an enlargement of a total budget.
	www.pomorsu.ru /Departments/Barents/public.htm (1329 words)

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