Marine Harvest Wants to Farm Fish Inside Cargo Ship
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Bloomberg] By Whitney McFerron - July 5, 2016
The world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer wants to start farming fish inside a ship rather than the sea.
Building traditional fish farms on the open water in Norway has become almost impossible because of state rules intended to curb outbreaks of sea lice, a parasite that can kill young fish. So raising salmon inside an unwanted cargo ship is one of a few options proposed by Marine Harvest ASA, which is trying to boost production at a time when prices are near a record high.
Output in Norway, the top producer, is falling just as supply declines from the rest of the world. Employing a Panamax vessel better suited to carrying coal or steel was one of the responses to a Norwegian government program seeking ways to solve the parasite problem and stop farmed fish from escaping into the open sea...
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