Production costs in the Norwegian fish farming sector have risen by almost 90 percent since 2005, finds a new report compiled by Nofima and Kontali.
The main drivers of this increase are the higher costs seen being incurred for feed, sea lice and general fish health, said Audun Iversen, researcher at Nofima and one of the report’s authors.
Researchers reviewed the production costs for salmon farmers in Norway’s competitor countries, and have analyzed what these mean for the competitive out…