Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Thor had a problem.

He had too many fish.

In particular, he had too many salmon, but it wasn't just Thor.

It was his whole country, Norway.

The thing is that in the 1970s, fishermen in Norway had turned from traditional fishing

methods to something new, the fish farm.

The newly minted fish farmers had become very good at their jobs.

And when they started raising fish in net pens in the sea itself, it took fish farming

to a different level, and soon they were harvesting fish like never before.

But even as Norwegians were farming more fish, the numbers of fish they were eating were

going down.

Maybe that wouldn't have been Thor's problem except that in 1981 he was appointed to

a new job with a title, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries.

So all of a sudden, all the fish that were being put away in freezer storage were precisely

his problem.

The freezers were industrial size, but they were getting full.

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