Cermaq ‘positive’ about sea lice counts
NORWEGIAN farmer Cermaq said the use of sea lice treatment was down in all its farming regions, and preventive measures to manage sea lice counts have shown positive results.
In its latest quarterly report, the company also said the 12-month survival rate for Atlantic salmon varies between the regions from 91 to 95 per cent.
In Norway there was one escape incident, with 400 escaped fish this quarter, which resulted in a total of 426 fish escaped in Cermaq operations throughout 2016, of which 425 were in Norway.
‘Our customers show a growing attention and interest in the transparency about the products and our production,’ said Geir Molvik, CEO of Cermaq.
‘Providing fresh data in the form of quarterly reporting is providing customers the best basis for building partnerships.’
Wenche Grønbrekk, head of Sustainability and Risk in Cermaq, said: ‘Cermaq’s approach is
based on transparency, partnerships and performance.
‘We believe a company which openly reports its results also has a better overview of risk and op-
portunities, a stronger basis for dialogue with stakeholders and a better ability to actually make progress on material topics.’
Cermaq, is a fully owned subsid- iary of Mitsubishi Corporation, and is the world’s second largest company farming salmon and trout, with operations in Norway, Chile and Canada.