Skrova

Skrova is the name of a small group of islands and a fishing village in the municipality Vågan in the Norwegian Fylke Nordland in Lofoten.

General

The northern branch of the Vestfjord between Svolvær and Skrova is also called Holla. Skrova is the southernmost tip of a small island chain consisting of Årsteinen, Store Molla and Lille Molla, extending from the northeast to the southwest in the Vest Fjord.

A variety of skerries and islets surrounding the two main islands Storskrova and Heimskrova, many of which are connected by bridges and jetties. The Skrovafjellet is located at the mountain Storskrova, which offers a fantastic panoramic view of the archipelago, the Norwegian mainland and the Lofoten lying westward. In Norway Skrova is the combination of Lofoten fisheries and whaling days gone by.

Climate

The fishing village

In the last two hundred years Skrova was the center of Lofothochseefischerei and of whaling of northern Norway. Some old fisherman looks longingly back to the ancient times when up to a thousand fishermen wintered from the mainland to the island. They were housed in the Fisherman's cabin, where their boats were moored. The cod and saithe was then seasonally in the winter months until Easter instead. Stockfish was a major export of the region. Today, the fishing industry consists of the island of upstream breeding pools for salmon and rainbow trout.