Flåvær is a fishing station on a group of islets and skerries in Norway in the Herøyfjord, Herøy municipality, Møre og Romsdal County. Skerry (disambiguation Skerries is the plural of Skerry. Skerries may refer to a number of geographical locations Skerries Dublin, Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional The Herøyfjord (or Herøyfjorden) is a Fjord which bisects Herøy municipality, Møre og Romsdal County Norway. Herøy is a municipality in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway. ||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions called counties ( fylker, singular fylke) and 430 municipalities ( kommuner, cf is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. It includes the islets Flåvær, Husholmen, Torvholmen and Varholmen (the Norwegian term holme translates as islet, signifying that these are small).
History
In earlier times there was extensive activity at Flåvær due to its central position in the Herøyfjord. Flåvær was both a fishing station and store where the fishing fleet could get supplies close to the fishing fields. It provided a useful harbour and mooring facilities. In the days of the rich herring fisheries the habour was often crowded with fishing vessels, and as many as 1500 people gathered there. Herring are small Oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North From 1873 to 1976 there was a post office, and from 1929 to 1961 and again from 1981 until 1984, a school. The Flåvær light house, which was erected on Varholmen in 1870, is still located there.
By 1981 Flåvær had only 14 remaining inhabitants on the four islets. Today Flåvær is depopulated, but it is possible to spend a vacation in the cottages there and to arrange for conferences on Flåvær and Torvholmen.
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