Maine objections to Nordic\’s RAS farm

THE Norwegian salmon company planning to build a RAS farm in the US state of Maine may face further delays in the permitting process. Nordic Aquafarms (NAF) has applied for a licence to build a $500 million land based salmon plant in Belfast, Maine, but has run up against opposition from the local environmental lobby.…

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Maine objections to Nordic\’s RAS farm

THE Norwegian salmon company planning to build a RAS farm in the US state of Maine may face further delays in the permitting process. Nordic Aquafarms (NAF) has applied for a licence to build a $500 million land based salmon plant in Belfast, Maine, but has run up against opposition from the local environmental lobby.…

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Go ahead for Europe's largest salmon land farm

PLANS to build what will eventually be Europe’s largest land based salmon farm have received local authority approval. The company, Salmon Evolution AS, was given the go ahead to develop a facility that is hoped will produce more than 28,000 tonnes of salmon a year. The development site is at a place called Indre Harøy…

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Phase two for land based salmon farm

NORDIC Aquafarms has received planning approval to build the second phase of what will be one of Europe’s largest land based salmon farms on a 10,000 square metre site, 40 miles south of the Norwegian capital Oslo. Fredrikstad Seafoods, a subsidiary of Nordic Aquafarms, said it has been granted a construction permit for its groundbreaking…

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Norwegian land based salmon farm on track

PLANS for Norway\’s first commercial land based aquaculture production plant for salmon in the east of the country are moving ahead. The company behind the project is Fredrikstad Seafoods, which is largely owned by Nordic Aquafarms, the company behind a recently announced $500 million land based salmon farm in the US state of Maine. The…

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