Salmar proposes offshore salmon farming platform in deep sea waters to boost production
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS April 22, 2014
Salmon farmers, swimming in profits, are looking for better ways to raise their fish.
Amid growing global demand for food, aquaculture companies aim to be bigger players by investing in new feeding processes and betting on elaborate new farming techniques. By 2016, for instance, SalMar ASA -- one of the world's largest salmon producers -- will launch a pricey and largely untested offshore fishing platform designed by a longtime oil executive.
Aquaculture, or fish farming, has grown faster than the wild-catch industry in recent decades, and Norway's fish farmers benefited as the nation has become the second-largest exporter of farmed fish behind China.
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