Salmon Evolution appoint new CCO

Salmon Evolution has appointed Trond Valderhaug as its new chief commercial officer (CCO) with effect from 1 October. Currently sales vice president for Asia at Mowi, he has acquired solid experience of national and international sales over almost 20 years. The appointment of Valderhaug means that Salmon Evolution is preparing to commercialise output from its…

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Wellboat pioneer invests in land based

SØLVTRANS founder Roger Halsebakk has jumped on the land based salmon bandwagon, investing in Norwegian company Salmon Evolution. Halsebakk, owner of Ronja Capital, the world’s largest wellboat business, is the biggest new investor in the project, which aims to farm 36,000 tonnes of salmon using flow-through technology. Salmon Evolution announced today that it had raised…

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New Year launch for salmon RAS pilot

A PILOT land based farm in Norway will lay the grounds for the RAS production of more than 30,000 tonnes of salmon, said the pioneers behind the project. Havlandet, in Norway’s westernmost city of Florø, is starting construction work on the site in January, after more than 17 years of experience with land based farming…

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