Seafood analysts would not be surprised if Chinese companies started acquiring seafood assets in Norway too, following the news Monday that China's Joyvio Group, a subsidiary of the conglomerate Legend Holdings Corporation, wants to buy 100 percent of the shares of Chile's Australis Seafoods for $880 million (€771.7 million).

With a harvest volume of nearly 60,000 metric tons a year, Australis is Chile's fifth largest farmer, and Tore Tonseth, an analyst at Sparebank 1 Markets, is not at all surprised a Chinese company is looking to snap it up.