Norwegian fish-farming firm Andfjord Salmon has put production on hold for the past year to expand its Kvalnes land-based salmon-farming facility, and CEO Martin Rasmussen recently confirmed that every part of the expansion is either on track or ahead of schedule.
Delivering the company’s Q3 2024 financial results in Oslo, Norway, on 28 November, Rasmussen said the project’s waterways are the closest part of the expansion to completion.
The company is introducing nearly 4.5 kilometers of tunnel infrastructure to the site, including inlet waterways, and at the end of November just 20 meters of the outlet waterway and approximately 450 meters of the inlet waterway were left to be completed.
Kvalnes’s completed infrastructure will include eight vertical inlet shafts that will supply all the pools with fresh seawater.
Andfjord Salmon aims to complete four new pools in the current stage of its Kvalnes’s build out, increasing its facility to five pools capable of producing 8,000 metric tons (MT) of head-on gutted (HOG) salmon by next year.
Once the infrastructure is complete, the company will be able to introduce four new pools each year, and reach a capacity of 19,000 MT HOG some time during 2027, Rasmussen said, ensuring …
