Former Codfarmers CEO Harald Dahl gathered NOK 10 million (€1.2 million/$1.6 million) for a new aquaculture company, and is about to start a new chapter of farming fish.

Fortuna Mare, of which Harald Dahl is chairman, will farm Atlantic tuna south of Alicante, Spain, reported Norwegian newspaper Finansavisen (FA).

According to FA, the share issue was implemented based on a pricing of the entire project at NOK 27 million (€3.2 million/$4.4 million).

“I believe we’ve cracked the code for farming Atlantic tuna in cooperation with Sintef, the Spanish marine research institute and Spanish Fuentes along with the best staff from Codfarmers,” Dahl told FA.

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