Lerøy hit by new fish escape

Up to 5,000 mature salmon are feared to have escaped from a Lerøy facility in central Norway in the past few days. Lerøy Midt says it has informed the authorities of the incident, which is thought to have taken place on Tuesday of this week. Harald Larsen, general manager of Lerøy Midt, said the company has quickly…

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Lerøy in positive mood despite a challenging year

Salmon pens in a blue sea with blue sky

Despite a number of biological challenges, the Lerøy Seafood group delivered better than expected 2023 fourth quarter results, with only a slight dip in profitability. Although lower than a year earlier, the group, which is part owner of Scottish Sea Farms, produced an operational EBIT (operating profit) for Q4, before biomass adjustments, of NOK 765m…

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Lerøy farm saved from huge ice floe

Lerøy Seafood avoided a serious loss at the weekend after a large ice floe threatened one of its fish farming facilities in the Troms and Finnmark region. The floe measured more than 3,000 square metres and was bearing down on the site at Lyngenfjorden before the coastguard ship Bison was brought in to rescue the…

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Lerøy Seafood Group sees revenue, profits fall for Q3

Lerøy Seafood Group, co-owner of Scottish Sea Farms, today posted a fall in third quarter revenue of NOK 329 million (£27.5 million). Salmon was not the problem, however. The company said the most significant factor behind the lower earnings was pressure on the whitefish market resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the change in catch…

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Algae outbreak hits Lerøy Q2 results

THE Lerøy Seafood Group, co-owners of Scottish Sea Farms, today announced higher earnings, but lower profits for the 2019 second quarter period . Revenues were up six per cent and  totalled NOK 5,340 million, compared to NOK 5,042 million for the same period in 2018. Operating profit (EBIT) before fair value adjustment related to biological assets came out at NOK 774 million,…

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Investors urged to back thriving Lerøy Seafood

INVESTORS are being urged by a leading global financial advice organisation to ‘run towards’ the Lerøy Seafood Group (LSG) , the big Norwegian salmon farming and fishing company. The advice, from financial technology company Simply Wall St, described Lerøy, which owns a half share in Scottish Sea Farms, as a business whose year on year…

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Lerøy posts strong Q4 results

THE Lerøy Seafood Group today posted substantially higher earnings and profits for the final quarter of 2018. The group, which owns a half share in Scottish Sea Farms, announced that Q4 revenues rose by NOK 773,000 to NOK 5,340 million. Harvest total was up by 17 per cent 49,000 tonnes gutted weight of salmon and…

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Fish Update Briefing, Friday, October 12

LEROY PREDICTS LOWER Q3 HARVEST LERØY Seafood Group has forecast lower harvest volumes for the third quarter of this year. In its latest trading update, the Norwegian fishing and aquaculture company says it expects harvest volumes for salmon and trout to be 37,22 tonnes for the period between July and September, compared with 46,024 tonnes…

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Salmon farmers lead investors’ ethical list

TWO Norwegian salmon companies have topped an investor group’s new sustainable food producers’ index, which is based on criteria such as use of antibiotics, animal welfare and food safety, Reuters reported today. Marine Harvest and Leroy Seafood Group led the first Coller FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk amd Return) Protein Producer index, which was launched…

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Lower salmon prices hit Lerøy Q1

THE Lerøy Seafood Group, whose operations include salmon farming, white fish trawling and fish processing today reported a significant drop in both earnings and operating profit for the first quarter of 2018. Revenues for the period totalled NOK 5,000 million, compared with NOK 5,459 million in Q1 2017, while the operating profit before fair value…

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