Career
She chaired the Norwegian Seafood Federation from 2002 to 2005, and was Vice President of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 2004 to 2008. In politics, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996, and State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001. On 20 October 2009, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs.
She lives in Bindal.
Berg-Hansen owns an 8% stake in SinkabergHansen AS, one of Norway"s salmon farms, through Jmj Invest AS. NMF, a Norwegian environmental group, filled charges against Berg-Hansen in 2009 claiming that her own economic interests prompted her to violate the regulations she’s supposed to enforce. A November 7 2013 France 2 documentary accuses Berg-Hansen of single-handedly relaxing the legal levels of toxins allowed in fish in Norway (she sits at the top of all the health advisory committees as well as all related research institutes (check minimum 42 of the video on ).