Posts Tagged ‘Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries’
iFarm launch is ‘best Christmas present’
INDIVIDUALISED fish farming will move a step closer in 2020 as Norwegian producer Cermaq plans a January launch for its iFarm project. The company, which last year won four development licences from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, said the first transfer of fish to sea is planned for autumn next year. Although the four permits…
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 MoreNorway’s ‘UFO’ concept grounded by Directorate
A FUTURISTIC looking salmon farming project known as OceanTech has been refused development licences by Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries. The joint venture between Wenberg Fish Farming and marine technology supplier Technip FMC, first submitted in November 2017, was for a large scale production closed cage facility at Salten, in the Nordland region of Norway. Wenberg…
Read MoreAll the news in the latest Fish Farmer
THE size and ambition of the aquaculture industry was very much in evidence at the recent Aqua Nor exhibition in Trondheim – and now you can read about it in the latest issue of Fish Farmer. We bring coverage from the greatest event in the fish farming calendar, with reports on new products and services,…
Read MoreMillions of salmon moved in rescue bid
MILLIONS of salmon were moved in a dramatic operation over the weekend to stop them from being suffocated by the algae outbreak now sweeping through fjords along parts of the north Norwegian coast. Already more than 13,000 tonnes, or 7.5 million salmon, have died in the Nordland and Troms region as a result of the…
Read MoreAlgae outbreak costing Norway billions of kroner
NORWAY’S fisheries minister is to hold an urgent meeting with the salmon farming industry as it was disclosed losses from a major algae outbreak this week could reach more than two billion kroner – or around £200 million. The state broadcaster NRK said that nothing has been seen like it for decades and millions of…
Read MoreFish Update Briefing, Friday, August 17
HISTORIC VENICE FISH MARKET UNDER THREAT VENICE Fish Market, one of the oldest of kind in the world, is under threat. The Rialto market opened 921 years ago in 1097 and became a symbol of the city’s commercial dynamism. But the number of fish merchants has been declining and now there are barely a handful…
Read MoreMinister urges action on high mortality
NORWEGIAN fisheries minister Per Sandberg told fish farming bosses that salmon mortality rates were unacceptable and must be cut to improve animal welfare and protect their reputation and profits. The minister called a meeting of executives on May 15 as figures from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries revealed 53 million salmon died on Norwegian farms…
Read MoreSubsea salmon farm gets go ahead
A JOINT venture between Norway\’s Akva Group, Sinkaberg-Hansen and Egersund Net has been given approval for one development licence by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. The consortium had applied for six licences for its industrial scale submersible salmon farm project, Atlantis Subsea Farming (ASF), in January 2016. In March 2017, the Directorate gave approval for ASF…
Read MoreOslo approves major salmon growth plans
A TOTAL of 47 fish farming companies, including many of the big names in the business, have been given permits to increase production using the environmentally friendly ‘traffic light’ scheme, says the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. The value of the applications when the deadline for new licences expired last week, and based on 449 permits,…
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