Norwegian salmon producer SalMar is cutting down the workload of all the 250 staff at its new factory, Innovamar, by 50 percent.
The reduction is due to the recent detection of pancreas disease in some of SalMar's pens. SalMar has been ordered to slaughter 2 million salmon from the affected pens.
The heavy slaughtering came at a time of typically low harvest, factory director Roger Sorensen told a local newspaper, Hitra-Froya.
“It’s therefore not unusual that we have little slaughtering volume at this time, but because of the slaughtering of the PD fish, this hit back at us violently,” he said.
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