Samherji executive on land-based plans: 'We know what we’re doing'

Icelandic fishing giant Samherji’s new $370 million land-based salmon farming operation has been a project 15 years in the making, and now the time is right to scale up and start making a real profit, Jon Kjartan Jonsson, managing director at the group’s fish farming subsidiary Samherji Fiskeldi, told IntraFish.

In June, Samherji announced it reached a deal with Icelandic geothermal power plant owner and operator HS Orka to develop a land-based salmon farming operation that would be one of the world's largest.