Archive for August 2021
NTS ups its offer for Norway Royal Salmon
NTS last night increased its bid for Norway Royal Salmon just five days before the original offer expiry date. The integrated salmon group has raised the share buy price from NOK 209 to NOK 240, worth a total of NOK 10.5bn (£856m) and the offer date has been extended from 16 August to 26 August.…
Read MoreBenchmark Genetics strengthens the fish health team
Øyvind J. Brevik has been hired as Fish Health Manager, Salmon with responsibility for fish health in all the global production units connected with the Benchmark Genetics breeding programmes for Atlantic salmon. Before joining Benchmark and for more than 10 years, Øyvind had the role of Senior Researcher and worked as part of the global R&D fish health…
Read MoreLice – it’s all about prevention!
FiiZK is a major supplier of treatment tarpaulins and lice skirts. We have developed our products together with fish farmers and research institutions such as Sintef Fiskeri and Havbruk. Prevention is key and our lice skirts are tailor-made to suit customer preferences and environmental conditions, to keep sea lice out and protect the cage environment.…
Read MoreGrieg says lost fish are insured
Grieg Seafood said today it has still to work out the financial consequences and the environmental impact of a large chlorine spill at one of its slaughterhouses – which poisoned fish in pens beside the plant – but stressed that the affected fish are insured. The company lost an estimated 96,000 salmon, totalling 430 tonnes,…
Read MoreGrieg chlorine spill may have killed 96,000 salmon
Grieg Seafood is thought to have lost more than 400 tonnes of salmon after a major spillage of chlorine escaped into the sea next to a slaughterhouse in Altafjord, northern Norway. It is the second incident to affect the company in less than a fortnight. At the beginning of August it said it was being…
Read MoreThe August 2021 issue of Fish Farmer is online now
When is a fish not a fish? That might sound like a child’s riddle, but when “seafood” can be made entirely from plant-based ingredients, or grown in a lab from stem, it starts to look like a serious question. In this issue of Fish Farmer, we look at some of the companies at the cutting edge…
Read MoreStormy outlook
When it comes to the impact of climate change, the insurance industry is on the front line. In June this year HRH Prince Charles, who has long been a champion of the environment, brought representatives of the sector together for the launch of the Sustainable Market Initiative Insurance Taskforce. The Taskforce involves the heads of…
Read MoreExperts address climate change issues for aquaculture
As the world’s leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow in November for the COP26 climate change summit, Fish Farmer magazine and online content business InterMet have teamed up to present a webinar on Aquaculture – Meeting the Threats of Extreme Weather & Climate Change. The free webinar will take place live on Thursday 19 August at 4pm…
Read MoreOshēn salmon brand to accept crypto payments
The world of cryptocurrency and the sale of farmed salmon have come together for the first time. US salmon distributor BluGlacier has begun accepting this increasingly popular method of payment to purchase its “direct-to-consumer” (D2C) products. BluGlacier is a joint venture sales company aimed at the US market and formed by the Chilean salmon producer…
Read MoreNRS board stands by takeover bid rejection
With the deadline for acceptance now less than a week away, the board of Norway Royal Salmon has repeated its call of three weeks ago for shareholders to reject the takeover offer from integrated aquaculture group NTS. The board issued a statement to the Oslo Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon effectively saying that the offer totalling…
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