Drift to SIFT

How salmon, and other species, can be farmed super intensively

The move to Super Intensive Farming Technology (SIFT) is being promoted by the EU as a ‘green and smart’ aquaculture development. Another seminar during last month’s Aqua Nor heard from Victor

Improved rate of return. The SIFT system, said Oiestad, has been used commercially on species like turbot, halibut and sole.

Spain, Portugal and Iceland the main producers.

Victor Oiestad

square metres – that makes up a fourth of a land-based circle tank farm.

because of higher energy costs, but these may

tages for farmed salmon and other species are and abroad may maintain the leading role of ment in cage farming in Chile, Canada, Scotland