For Marine Harvest, it will mark the end of live transport of slaughter-ready salmon in well-boats.
“We’re encouraging our neighbors in the same fjord systems to start thinking along the same lines,” the company’s Stephen Harris told IntraFish.
The "dyed-in-the-wool" Australian is manager onsite harvest at Marine Harvest, based in Hjemeland, Rogaland County. He started in the company in 2001 and speaks fluent Norwegian.
Last week he was a keynote speaker at the annual Tekmar conference in Trondheim. This year’s theme was among other things reputation and contingency, appropriate at a time when the media is flooded with headlines about small lice.
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