The Marine Harvest Group
www.marineharvest.com
The group is born from the merger between 3 companies specialized in fish farming (Pan Fish ASA, Marine Harvest N.V et de Fjord Seafood ASA). Marine Harvest is the world’s leading in Fish farming. It produced about 430 000 tonnes of fish in 2007 (in majority salmon). It owns farms in about 20 countries around the world, for example, in Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Chili and Canada.
The Group is listed at the Oslo Market, town where their corporate headquarters are located. Marine Harvest employs about 9000 employees all around the world.
The Group is a member of WWF (The World Non Governmental Organization for the environmental protection and the promotion of sustainable development).
Marine Harvest, a long experience in farming and a recognized quality
This farming is done with the utmost care for the
the natural salmon cycle and the environment.
Continued research into the improvement of salmon quality from roe hatching to slaughter (fish health check, minimum stress, continued analysis of water, controlled feeding, etc.)
For Marine Harvest Kritsen and the consumer, this upstream integration is a guarantee that the salmon is farmed openly.
The salmon life cycle
In order respect the salmon’s natural life cycle,
it is farmed for 1 year in fresh water and 2 years in seawater..
It lives in large volumes of running water or in huge enclosures delimited by nets, eaux
, in good quality water, which is permanently renewed and checked,
in which they have a large vital space The ratio is 2% fish to 98% free water.
This means that they can swim naturally and leap. This physical activity is essential to their good health.
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