Technology

• Industrial development requires the ”best” implementations through the whole value chain
• Scale needs to be built with advanced and effective logistic solutions
• A balanced value chain needs will need to be planned with few or no weak points

Industry development in fish feeding: from a Feeding Control Room in Norway (large scale system) to feeding with water canon (from smaller scale system in Thailand using salmon technology)

”Modern” technology of marine finfish production has developed over several decades in Asia, Europe, Americas, Oceania, This is a “global development” with similarities between regions and species, but today the industry is only scaled to industrial levels in a few countries and also with a dominationof a few species red fishes, white fishes and shrimps.

Drivers today are:

Reduction in wild stock landings (from ”over fishing”) and an increase in seafood consumption and other competitive needs will continuew to push future intensification of the aquaculture sector

• More advanced technology and know-how in larger scaled operations (from Norwegian fish farming as well as other producer countries)
• We expect to see a move from smaller to larger scaled operations that are able to obtain sustainable industries
•  A sustainable industry with main focus on fish health issues as the longer term winner and this is also a strategy that is competitive in the global seafood market

· Increase in certification options

Norway is a small country, with less then 5,5 million people, but where fish farming has become a very important industry today. In Norway this has mainly been due to continued and advanced technical development in the salmonid species, but to some extent, the growing cod and flatfish (turbot, halibut and sole) industry will become more important as we go. These are all species that fetch good market prices today, and which is expected to develop. In addition we now see a continued industrial development of farmed finfish and shrimp species, like temperate and tropical species like Seabass/Seabream, Barramundi, Cobia, groupers and snappers and several species of shrimps.
Drivers are:

• World population is expected to increase from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050 and therefore we will need more fish and aquaculture products
• Economical growth are expected to continue worldwide and we need more seafood in the future
• New technology for industrial farming will develope further, in both the direction of offshore and the directions on land (FT and RAS farms)
• Countries with long coastlines and developed infrastructure will have the highest potential to fill the growing demand of seafood in the longer run

Norwegian harvest procedures implemented when harvesting cobia, a test program in South East Asia