Aquaculture

All-star investor line-up makes plans for $236 million Norway land-based salmon farm

Norway's largest land-based fish farm is planned at Haugesund in the south of the country with local celebrity investors already involved in the project.

Here, the plan is to build Norway's largest fish farm on land. The water will be pumped up from the nearby sea. From left, Knut Nesse from Akva Group, investor Bjorn Apeland, Lars Erik Baustad from Ecofisk and Erlend Sodal from Akva Group.
Here, the plan is to build Norway's largest fish farm on land. The water will be pumped up from the nearby sea. From left, Knut Nesse from Akva Group, investor Bjorn Apeland, Lars Erik Baustad from Ecofisk and Erlend Sodal from Akva Group.Foto: Tommy Ellingsen
Published 12 February 2021, 07:20Updated 12 February 2021, 07:20