Henrik Heiberg, vice president of finance and treasury at Marine Harvest, told attendees at the IntraFishSeafood Investment Forum in London on Wednesday the company plans to make significantly lower investments in 2014 in a bid to strengthen its cash flow.

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The seafood sector currently accounts for 6 percent of the world’s protein production, said Heiberg, and with the growing population there will be a requirement for 40 percent more protein by 2050.

However, this is unlikely to come from farmed Atlantic salmon, which makes up only a tiny slice of total production, said Heiberg.

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