Bluegreen to provide its technology at Grieg Seafood's Finnmark facility

Bluegreen has announced that it will be responsible for lining the fish tanks in Grieg Seafood's land-based post-smolt aquaculture facility in Adamselv, Finnmark. The RAS technology provider Pure Salmon Technology is the general contractor for the project.

The land-based facility has two post-smolt modules, each with a capacity of 8,000 kg of feed per day and a tank volume of 9,200 m³, and will receive fish from Grieg Seafood’s existing smolt facility in Adamselv.

"We are very pleased to be chosen as a partner in this groundbreaking aquaculture facility. Fish welfare and sustainability have been focus areas for us since the beginning, and we support all initiatives and concepts that reduce the time fish are exposed outdoors," said Johan Tufte in Bluegreen.

It is worth highlighting that Bluegreen has already lined the fish tanks for the Overhalla Betong project.

Regarding this fact, the project manager at Overhalla Odd Andre Devik Amdal expressed: "We choose to cooperate with Bluegreen on this project based on the good collaboration we have had on previous projects, and because Bluegreen is a professional and reliable actor to deal with when it comes to such complex facilities."

Reducing the exposure to diseases

According to Bluegreen, an expert in plastic fusion and EPCI solutions in thermoplastics, when the majority of the fish production cycle takes place on land, the time fish spend in marine facilities.

Consequently, fish exposure to diseases, sea lice, and other marine hazards is reduced. Also, Grieg Seafood confirmed that both fish welfare and lice control in its facilities have improved.

Grieg Seafood had put investments on hold due to Norway's new tax regime but confirmed in November 2023 that will prioritize the expansion of its smolt facility in Finnmark.