Sande Aqua plans land-based salmon farm

By Robert Outram | November 2, 2020

A plan to build Norway’s largest land-based salmon farm at a cost of more than five billion kroner (around £400 million) has been unveiled. The company Sande Aqua is behind the ambitious project which is initially expected to produce around 33,000 tonnes a year (including 6,000 tonnes of one kilogramme post smolt fish) when completed,…

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Maine site for second land based farm

By Jenny Hjul | February 27, 2018

A SECOND company has unveiled plans to build a huge indoor land based salmon farm in the US east coast state of Maine. The company is Whole Oceans, which has signed an agreement to purchase a large part of a redundant paper mill site in the small coastal community of Bucksport (population 4,924). Just a month ago the Norwegian aquaculture company…

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