Health & Welfare
Traditional sea cage culture typically relies on natural water exchange to replace oxygen consumed by fish, which may not provide sufficient oxygen – especially during seasonal periods of high temperature.
Health & Welfare
Smolt production in Norwegian hatcheries will likely increase during the next decade to answer salmon grow-out needs. Farmers are converting existing flow-through systems to partially or fully incorporate recirculation technologies.
Health & Welfare
The Fjordsmolt RAS farm applies a relatively simple, low-cost design to produce millions of salmon smolts per year in fiberglass tanks.
Health & Welfare
A new scalable modular concept for lobster culture developed in Norway relies on automation to perform most production procedures.
Intelligence
While stable production of juveniles remains an issue for halibut farming in Norway, advances such as diets to replace live artemia are improving the industry.
Health & Welfare
A commercial oxygen injection system tested in Norway maintained D.O. at levels that sustained growth and increased the harvested biomass.
Innovation & Investment
An intensive-culture recirculation system for farming European lobsters has been developed, with a pilot installation in Norway.
Intelligence
Norwegian smolt farms are located along the coast, on land, and a growing number practice partial or “tank-internal” recirculation of water.
Intelligence
Most of the approximately 250 Norwegian salmonid hatcheries are located on the coast and close to a freshwater source.