Atlantis Subsea Farming (ASF), the offshore salmon farming arm founded by Akva, Egersund Net and Sinkaberg & Hansen, has had one of its six original development license applications approved.

The other outstanding license application was declined.

The company applied for six development licenses on Jan. 29, 2016.

On March 10 2017, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries informed the company it would only go ahead with processing the application of two licenses, rejecting application of the other four.

On May 8, ASF appealed the decision to reject two of the four licenses.