Tore Lyng, chair of Måløy, Norway-based Lyng Seafoods, has been working for the past three years on plans to build a 10,000 metric ton (MT) land-based trout farm in the grounds of a 17th century castle in Sweden’s Bjuv municipality, not far from the border with Denmark.
The development, through his company Nordic Salmon, will be carried out in collaboration with Wrams Gunnarstorp Gods, which was built as a French-inspired hunting lodge. Other local companies will also be involved.
“We have a greater demand for salmon and trout than we can supply. Our new facility will deliver sustainably-grown premium fish to Sweden, the E.U., and internationally. It is the good conditions in Bjuv and especially the collaboration with Wrams Gunnarstorps Gods and other players that made us choose this place for the development,” Tore Lyng said in a press release.
Wrams Gunnarstorp Gods is already engaged in agriculture and Rudolf Tornerhjelm, CEO of the Wrams Gunnarstorp estate, said the property and its caretakers have a tradition of cooperation with professional companies. Diversifying into renting land for aquaculture was therefore a natural step, Tornerhjelm said.
“Together we can be at the forefront of circular bioeconomics. We have previously built a biogas plant with EON, the German energy group, and are now cooperating with Nordic Salmon,” said Tornerhjelm.
Tore Lyng, who is also chair of Mato Invest, founded Lyng Seafood as a family-owned enterprise in 2018. Lyng Seafood made a name for itself as the official supplier of salmon products for the world’s first salmon vending machines in Singapore. The machines can hold the fish at -4 degrees Farenheit for up to two years, and dispense frozen 200-gram premium frozen salmon fillets for USD 4.25 (EUR 3.60) each.
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