Presenting companies: Bakkafrost | Salmar | Lerøy | Cermaq | Mowi
Cage talk – open cage challenges solved! Sharing best practices – generating value for all
NASF has invited leading salmon farmers and their experts to elaborate on how challenges has been overcome. Join our inaugural Cage Talk session on “Technology Tuesday” and gain insight in how salmon farmers and their experts have used technology, best practices and genius solutions to overcome many of the threatening challenges facing open cage farming.
Speakers
Postsmolt and Smart Farming for improved survival, welfare and productivity
By 2024, Mowi Norway has established capacity for 50% postsmolt ratio for Mowi South, West and Mid. Three large postsmolt facilities and closed containment provide ca 30 million 700g postsmolt. Through reduced time in sea, reduced risks and strategic use of Smart Farming and new technologies Mowi will significantly improve biological metrics and improves performance.
Øyvind Oaland
COO Farming Norway and Iceland - Mowi
How Lerøy is using digital tools to overcome real world challenges
1. Understanding the cause and effect throughout the value-chain
2. Digital tools to better understand our fish
3. User centric approach, to harvest the learning that is accumulated in the company.
Anders Storebø
Lead Digital Transformation Farming - Lerøy
Title TBA
Harald Takle
Head of Strategy and Seawater Innovation - Cermaq
Exposed Open-cage Farming in the Faroe Islands
Bjarni Larsen
Farming Manger - Bakkafrost
Bjarni Larsen graduated as master in fisheries and aquaculture from UiT – Norges arktiske universitet in 2018 (Fiskerikandidat) and has taken specialization in aquaculture from the studies in Norway.
Bjarni has several years of experience working in the freshwater phase with RAS before he was appointed as Farming Optimizer for Bakkafrost in 2019. In 2024 Bjarni took on the role as Head of Farming for the South division in the Faroe Islands, which has some of the most exposed sea sites in the Faroe Islands. As well as being Head of Farming, Bjarni still has key tasks for the seawater phase including developing new sites, new farming methods, trials, improving survivability, feed conversion rates, growth rates, reporting and analyzing data amongst other things.
