European News NEWS... Aquaculture leader dies
Polarfi sk gets sturgeon go ahead
A FISH farmer in northern Norway plans to begin producing caviar from farmed Siberian sturgeon in what he calls a ‘mile- stone’ for the coun- try’s fish industry. Polarfisk has been
JAKOB Stolt-Nielsen, Norwegian shipping owner and salmon farming pioneer, died on 15 February at his home in Oslo. He was 83. Stolt-Nielsen, of the shipping line Stolt-Niels- en Ltd, founded Stolt Sea Farm in 1972. It became part of the Marine Harvest empire in 2006, and is recognised today as a leader in the field of sole, turbot and sturgeon for caviar high tech aquaculture.
trying for four years to get permission from Norway’s environment ministry to introduce a new species to the country for aquacul- ture, arguing that as the sturgeon will be bred in tanks on land, there is little risk of them escaping to the wild.
It got the go ahead STURGEON GO AHEAD
A fi sh farmer in northern Norway plans to begin producing caviar from farmed Siberian sturgeon
last month, opening the way for the compa- ny to build a new plant capable of producing up to 300 tonnes of gutted sturgeon fish and ten tonnes of farmed sturgeon caviar a year. ‘This will be the first facility in Norway
where we both rear sturgeon and produce readily marketable Russian caviar,’ Anker Bergli, the company’s chief executive, told Norway’s NTB news wire. Norway has become a
world leader in farmed salmon since the coun- try pioneered the use of floating sea cages in the late 1960s, but has yet to commercialise sturgeon production. Illegal sturgeon fish- ing in the Caspian Sea, the traditional source of the finest beluga caviar, has led to plum- meting fish stocks and soaring prices, forcing the caviar industry to rely ever more on farmed fish. Polarfisk is now
attempting to raise money from investors to fund the construc- tion of the plant, which will be based on a system pioneered in
Caviar to be produced in Norway
Denmark. ‘Both products are
well remunerated, and we are not reinvent- ing gunpowder, but adopting a technology already developed in Denmark,’ Bergli said. ‘We will have full con- trol of the water used
in production, with a recycling rate of over 99 per cent.’ Norway’s envi-
ronment ministry gave the company its approval after concluding that there was little chance of the fish escaping.
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