Norway's minister for trade and industry, Trond Giske, fisheries minister Lisbeth Berg-Hansen and the chairperson of of the trade and industry committee, Terje Lien Aasland, are all remaining silent on Marine Harvest's takeover bid for Cermaq.

“It would be totally wrong to comment when Marine Harvest has elected to make a bid for Cermaq now, and with specifically clear conditions. In any case, if any comment was made it would have been uttered on an emotional basis,” Aasland told the financial publication Finansavisen.

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