Marine Harvest web published a salmon farming industry handbook dated March 2008.
Marine Harvest states that the document has been produced to give financial analysts, investors and others an insight into the salmon farming industry and Marine Harvest’s view of the most important value drivers.
In overview the document covers:
- global overview on salmon
- salmon biology
- salmon farming
- key inputs
- key global geographies
- processing
- supply and demand
- comparisons with other protein sources
- research and development
At eighty pages filled with explanatory data, tables and images I certainly found it a great introduction to the key issues in the Salmon Industry from a global perspective. It is a valuable contribution to aquaculture knowledge.
Seafood Innovations is making a name for itself around the world with its innovative capabilities.
Industry-scale trials have been carried out at one of Marine-Harvest’s salmon farming plants in Rogaland, Norway of an automated slaughtering machine.
The system has now been trialled in several places around the world and on several fish species.
In the Norwegian trial, salmon were pumped directly from aquaculture pens to a vessel especially outfitted for the trials. The machine kills the fish instantaneously with a blow to the head. Next, the fish are cut for bleeding and transported to a tank containing cold sterile seawater where it is bled out.
Scientists from Fiskeriforskning have confirmed that the fish are killed instantly when the machine delivers a correctly aimed blow.
An article ‘Good News for the Salmon Industry’ in a recent Fiskeriforskning newsletter confirms that the current method using CO2 will be banned from 1 July 2008.
More details about the device including videos of it in operation can be seen here.
One of the patents associated with the device may be accessed here.
