Mowi loses 5,100 salmon, crushed to death in routine procedure

A large number of fish were killed at a Mowi-owned site in western Norway as the company prepared the cage for a non-medicinal delicing.

Around 5,100 fish, or 2.5 percent of the crop, were crushed to death Sept. 18 off Tennoya Island. The fish weighed around 1.5 kilos each.

"There was a strong current in the period from when the cage was strung up to the start of treatment," according to an explanation from Mowi to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority.