One of Norway Royal Salmon's (NRS) initiatives to achieve its long-term growth objective has broken ground, with the initiation of construction at its new smolt facility.

“This hatchery will contribute to increase the biological safety, quality, and size of our smolt,” said NRS CEO Charles Hostlund, speaking at the IntraFish Investor Forum in London last week.

The company has licenses to produce 10 million smolts at the site up to a larger than average 400 grams in size.