Proximar Seafood has harvested Atlantic salmon from its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility in Japan.
The company’s facility in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, has been operational since October 2022 and has been steadily raising batches of salmon ever since. The company experienced a tank breach in February 2024 that killed 50,000 salmon but, since that time, has taken steps to prevent further incidents and has not reported any other issues.
With the first harvest, Proximar revealed it will be selling its Atlantic salmon under the brand Fuji Atlantic Salmon – which it said is the first domestically produced Atlantic salmon harvested in Japan.
“Proximar is the only supplier of domestically produced Atlantic salmon in Japan, years ahead of competition,” Proximar Seafood CEO Joachim Nielsen said. “We have since October 2022 proven great production capabilities and fish growth, and I am now immensely proud to see all the hard work from our excellent team being commercially validated through the first harvest.”
The company said its first batch of salmon came in at an average of 4 kilograms head-on gutted (HOG) with 100 percent superior quality. While Proximar did not reveal the price it achieved for the salmon in its announcement, it said it “aligns with the company’s expectations of premium prices compared to the import price to Japan of Norwegian Atlantic salmon.”
“Our Atlantic salmon shows high quality, and based on the feedback from our partners and others, I am confident that we are providing Japanese consumers with a longed-for local product with unparalleled freshness,” Nielsen said.
Proximar said the first harvest will be sold and shipped to ...