When IntraFish stopped by last Tuesday afternoon, Nordlaks' Børøya factory was a hive of activity both at the slaughterhouse and fillet factory.

Five kilo salmon had been slaughtered, and the volume meant workers were doing overtime to finish the processing.

Low temperatures and slow growth in the winter months mean seasonal variations for fish processing in northern Norway are large.

Nordlaks Communications Advisor Lars Martinussen told IntraFish the company harvests around one third of its volumes in the first half of the year and the other two thirds in the second half.

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