Atlantic Sapphire's Danish land-based salmon farm has achieved a biomass of 870 metric tons (real live weight) with around 3 percent mortality as a percentage of biomass gain, the company will tell delegates at this week's North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF).

The current stocking at its European site will give an annual yield of 2,900 metric tons, with 1 million fish, from egg to 5 kilos, currently stocked at the farm. The fish in the saltwater grow-out phase are at an average weight of 2.2 kilos.

The feed conversion rate at the farm is currently estimated to be 1.05.

Atlantic Sapphire aims to achieve ”steady state production” in the second quarter of this year with 8 metric tons of biomass gain per day and continued reduction in operating risk.

It also intends to stabilize standing biomass at around 900 metric tons and to continue to develop protocols to improve management of flavor and product quality.

It will sell up to 80 percent of its production to the US market.

The group will also present at NASF on developments at its US site.

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