Marine Harvest on Monday released its fourth-quarter production results, including a 9,000-metric-ton drop in Chilean output.
The world's largest farmed salmon company produced a total of 87,000
metric tons in the fourth quarter of 2009, down 3,000 metric tons from
the same period in 2008 but up 5,000 metric tons from the third-quarter
forecast.
Norwegian output was up 5,000 metric tons to 58,000 metric tons, while
Chilean output was down 9,000 metric tons to just 6,000 metric tons due
to the infectious salmon anemia outbreak. Scottish and Canadian output
reached 10,000 metric tons and 9,000 metric tons, respectively.
Additionally, Marine Harvest Norway posted a per-kilogram operational
EBIT of approximately NOK 4.1 in the fourth quarter of 2009, a figure
negatively influenced by approximately NOK 0.65 due to harvesting from
a farm site hit with pancreas disease in November.
News of the company's fourth-quarter production results come three days
after it announced that Svein Aaser, who has been Marine Harvest's
chairman since the company's inception in 2006, announced that he is
stepping down from his post, effective 18 January. Vice Chairman Ole
Eirik Lerøy will step in as chairman and Leif Frode Onarheim will act
as vice chairman through the next annual general meeting late this year.
"Marine Harvest has just concluded a very good year, resulting in a
dividend to the shareholders," said Aaser. "The company has a very
strong management and exciting prospects. I am pleased to have had the
opportunity to participate in developing the company to its present
position."
Marine Harvest will release its fourth-quarter results on 10 February.
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January 17, 2010
