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SUSTAINABILITY LIBRARY 2022 Fish health and fish welfare Survival rate

Survival rate

It is an essential goal for us to keep the survival rates as high as possible.

It is an essential goal for us to keep the survival rates as high as possible.  

Lost fish is undesirable both from a fish health and welfare perspective and from a financial perspective. Thus, our goal is to get as many individuals as possible throughout the whole production phase from egg to slaughter. Farming robust smolts, good husbandry, disease control and careful handling are key factors.  

 

Main goal

2023: Survival in sea, last 12 months according to GSI: 94.5% 

 

 

2022

2021

2020

2019

Survival in sea (%)

92,5

92,5

92,2

93,4

Survival on shore (%)

91,4

88,8

93,5

91,5

Different biological factors contribute to the result, and these factors vary from year to year.   

Departments in the Group´s Farming division, contributes to the work to achieve the main goal, by identifying and working towards their own specific goals for survival. This includes land- and sea-farms.   

 

Policy:  Fish health and fish welfare