A yard in Indre Fosen Municipality completed the luxurious apartment ship MS The World.

Fiborgtangen is a peninsula along the eastern shore of the fjord where a large paper mill owned by Norske Skog is located.

[4] In recent years, deep water corals (Lophelia pertusa) were discovered in the fjord, not far from the city of Trondheim.

The more rugged and mountainous Fosen peninsula lies to the west and northwest, giving some shelter from the wind common to coastal areas.

In 1888, an undersea mudslide caused a tsunami that killed one person in Trondheim and ruptured three railway lines.