Posts Tagged ‘Lerøy Aurora’
Whale of a time for escaped salmon
A 30 foot long minke whale has broken into a salmon cage in northern Norway, enabling a number of fish to swim free. The large intruder made its bold, but unwelcome, appearance at a Lerøy Aurora farm in Åpenvik in the Varangerfjord region. It made a large hole in the net, through which a small…
Read MoreNorway spells out algae loss recompense
NORWAY’S Directorate of Fisheries has laid out details of the compensation it is planning to give those fish farming companies who lost at least 720 million kroner – or £60 million – in the algae outbreak last May. The attack, the worst for almost 30 years, devastated several fish farms in the Nordland and Troms…
Read MoreLerøy go-ahead for open sea farm near Tromsø
LERØY Aurora has been given permission to establish a large sea based salmon and trout farm just 20 miles from Tromsø, despite opposition from a number of wildlife and conservation groups and left leaning politicians on the city council. The go-ahead for the 48,000 square metre project was granted under the Pollution Control Act by…
Read MoreHopes of algae retreat suffer setback
HOPES that that the algae outbreak which has caused devastation at two fish farming regions in northern Norway was on the retreat suffered a setback yesterday. Earlier this week, Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries was reporting that the crisis in Nordland and Troms appeared to have peaked and that the algae was on the wane. But…
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