‘Surprising’ advances in land based salmon

LAND based salmon farming has advanced to the extent that the biggest facilities will soon have the capacity to produce more than 150,000 tonnes, according to a DNB analyst.

Tone Bjørnstad Hanstad, of the leading Norwegian bank, told a conference in Trondheim that there had been significant developments in land based farming.

The company analysed some of the largest land based salmon sites around the world and identified 20 to 25 projects that will have the capacity to achieve a combined production of 150,000 tonnes.

‘We are surprised,’ Hanstad said, ‘and the main findings show that these systems have evolved much further than we expected, both technologically and in terms of the number of projects. Which projects will be successful we do not yet know.’