Posts Tagged ‘land-based’
Grieg signs new smolt plant construction deal
Grieg Seafood has signed a deal with the construction company Consto, which will be building a new smolt plant for Grieg in Norway’s Finnmark region. Consto said it has been awarded the overall contract for the project and will be responsible for the construction technical delivery as well as the coordination of all performing professional…
Read MoreAKVA seals deal for Chinese land-based farm
Aquaculture technology group AKVA has signed a deal to work on Nordic Aqua Partner’s new land-based salmon firm in Ningbo, China. The project will be undertaken by AKVA’s land-based farming subsidiary Land Based Norway AS, and AKVA has committed to a stake of €3.1m in the venture. The Chinese operation, Nordic Aqua Ningbo, will use…
Read MoreAKVA signs deal to build land-based farm in Sweden
Aquaculture technology business AKVA has signed a deal to design a land-based salmon farm in Sweden. The facility will be owned and run by Premium Svensk Lax (PSL), a Swedish company that has developed a zero-emissions approach to land-based fish farming. In September, PSL gained approval from Swedish regulators for a farm with annual production…
Read MoreBenchmark Genetics signs ova deal with AquaCon
The Iceland arm of Benchmark Genetics has signed a five-year contract to supply salmon ova to fish farmer AquaCon in the US. The contract involves deliveries of genetics to the land-based facilities that AquaCon are planning to build in Maryland, with around 40 million ova due to be delivered over the five-year period. The farm…
Read MoreSande Aqua plans land-based salmon farm
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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