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SUSTAINABILITY LIBRARY 2025 About Lerøy Summary Result

Summary Result

Social Statement

  2025 2024 2023 2022
Employees        
Employees, total (number) 6773 6194 6013 5972
Employees, own (number) 5830 5311 5342 5119
Employees, hired (number) 943 883 671 853
Employees, women (number) 2644 2418 2333 2331
Employees, men (number) 4129 3776 3680 3641
Temporary employees (number) 680 492 768 747
Part-time employees (number) 630 559 757 783
         
Managers in the Group with responsibility for personnel (number) 514 515 502 460
Managers, women (%) 26 24 25.10 29.10
Managers, men (%) 74 76 74.90 70.90
         
Employees with occupational injury insurance (%) 100.00   100.00 100.00
Members of trade unions (number) *   2244 1564 1664
Employees covered by collective bargaining agreement, own (%) 72 75 70.93 67.51
*) Information about members of trade unions is no longer collected or processed in order to ensure full compliance with GDPR requirements and to safeguard personal data responsibly 
Employees covered by collective bargaining agreement, own – Norway (%) 69 71 67.61 67.84
Employees covered by collective bargaining agreement, own – International (%) 79 80 79.12 66.83
Employees with employment contract (%) 100   100 100
Response rate on employee survey from Great Place to Work (%) 87 87 82 86
         
Training and further education        
Employees who have received training in business ethics (%) 100   100 100
Managers in the Group that have completed Lerøy Leadership Program 85 84 79 108
Apprentices (number) 185 170 146 156
Trainees (number) 11 22 25 18
Internships (number) 123 102 163 99
Certificate of apprenticeship achieved with employer (number) 52 86 78 83
         
HSE        
Sick leave (%) 5.5 5.9 6.04 6.68
Short-term sick leave (%) 2.3 2.2 2.35 2.98
Long-term sick leave (%) 3.2 3.7 3.69 3.70
H1/LTIFR value 12.9 14.26 18.73 13.31
Injuries with absence (number) 128 132 172 118
Injuries without absence (number) 138 133 93 63
Near misses (number) 941 915 1041 1001
Safety observations (number) 11579 9865 6940 5289
Reported near misses per man years, RUI (number) 2.4 2.3 1.60 1.20
Fatal accidents (number) 0 0 0 0
Companies with employee representatives on working environment committee (%) 90 71.4 73.33 65.52
Risk assessment completed in relation to risk of employees developing antibiotic resistance   Yes Yes Yes
         
Social Responsibility        
Feedback from stakeholders, positive/negative (number) 0 0 18 15
Non-approved supplier audits (number) 0 0 2 0
Product recalls (number) 6 7 3 11
Number of product processing factories with GFSI certification (%) 93   93 92
Markets without market access (number) 1   1 1
         
Total tax contributions from the Group and the employees (NOK million)   1462 1463 1138
Purchases in Norway, excl. intragroup purchases (NOK billion)   18 19.9 18.9
Suppliers in Norway (number)   5142 5404 5137
Municipalities in Norway in which purchases have been made (number)   248 247 299
         
Participation in collaborative groups for aquaculture     Yes Yes
Participation in collaborative fora for fisheries     Yes Yes
Support for humanitarian organisations     Yes Yes
*) Audits related to various schemes, agencies and internal resources
         

Environmental statement

  2025 2024 2023 2022
Survival        
Survival in sea (%) 937 93.1 91.5 92.5
Survival on land (%) 938 94.5 91.3 91.4
         
Antibiotics        
Antibiotics used in sea (kg active substance) 0 219 0 0
Antibiotics used on shore (kg active substance) 0 0 0 0
         
Top 6 disease that has caused mortality (number of million fish/biomass tonnes)        
Bacterial wounds (number of million fish/biomass tonnes) 1.2/2305 1,8/ 3 934 2.2/4 346 10/2 666
Unspecified (number of million fish/biomass tonnes) 0.4/541 1.0 / 202 1.1/2 128 -
Treatments (number of million fish/biomass tonnes) 1.8/4380 0.9 / 2 253 1.1/2 544 1.3/3 296
Viral disease (number of million fish/biomass tonnes) 1.6/4797 0.7 / 2 422 - -
Gill infection (number of million fish/biorross tonnes) 0.3/1029 0.5 / 1594 1.7/4 385  
Handling (number of million fish/biomass tonnes) 0.2/359 0.3 / 2002 - -
         
Lice        
Average number of fully grown lice per fish in LSC Farming (number) 0.21 0.22 0.18 0.18
Cages treated for lice (number) 1150 1463 1772 1853
         
Volume Of delousing agents used via feed (kg active substance)        
Slice 14.4 16.6 9.09 8.27
         
Volume Of delousing agents used via bath(kg active substance)     26 625.6  
Alpha max 0 0 0 1.42
Azasure 0 0 0 0
Salmosan 12.8 53.3 66.5 44.50
Ectosan 0 1153 3131.0 1507
Hydrogen peroxide 0 0 23482.2 0

LICE

Average number of fully grown lice per fish per company 2025 2024 2023 2022
  Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Lerøy Aurora         0,15 0,10 0,20 0,23 0,11 0,06 0,06 0,11 0,12 0,05 0,04 0,07
Lerøy Midt         0,19 0,09 0,38 0,21 0,13 0,13 0,28 0,26 0,16 0,16 0,27 0,26
Lerøy Sjøtroll         0,16 0,13 0,36 0,33 0,17 0,14 0,23 0,21 0,2 0,13 0,25 0,24
LSG Farming 0,18 0,11 0,26 0,31 0,17 0,22 0,33 0,27 0,15 0,12 0,19 0,27 0,17 0,12 0,22 0,21

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  2025 2024 2023 2022
BIODIVERSITY        
Escapes of fish (number) 14986 13732 15030 10544
Escape of salmon 14984 13478    
Escape of trout 2 254    
Average density, per cage (kg/m3) 7,9 7.68 7.70 8.0
Average fallow period (number of days)   141 136 167
Average MOM B score 1,35 1.27 1.32 1.38
Percentage of localities with GLOBALG.A.P./ASC certificate for farming (%) 100 100 100 100
Localities taking part in zone collaboration (%) 100 100 100 100
         
Fish Feed        
FFDRm, salmon 0,74 0.58 0.58 0.53
FFDRo, salmon 1,37 1.68 1.52 1.60
Marine raw materials/vegetable raw materials (%) 26/74 27/37 31/69 29/71
ProTerra certificate soy (%) 100 98.9 83 100
Traceable soy in value chain (%) 100 100 100 100
Share of deforestation-free soy protein concentrate from Brazil with traceability (%) 100 100 100 100
Total certified raw materials (%) 36,8 41 48.00 42.00
Marine raw materials certified (MSC+IFFO/Marine trust including FIP) (%) 100 100 97.00 94.60
         
Wild Catch        
MSC-certified marine species caught (%) 87 96 91 95
         
Water        
Water withdrawal LSG (m3) 83 194 563 91 629 591.3 88 423 891.8 96 775 397
Water discharge LSG (m3) 83 145 353 91 577 501.5 88 368 527.3 96 630 139
Consumed water LSG (m3) 49 269 52451 55 364.5 145 258
Consumed water in water stressed areas 28 653 16965 10 833 3 023
         
Waste        
Food waste industry: reduction in fish on floor and unsold products (kg) 300 829,6 329 126 307 771 293 893
Food waste wildcatch – increased production of meal, il and ensilage (kg) 24 179 712  5 185 050 5 332 280 4 840 000
Non-organic waste, recycled, reused or material recovered (%) 46.8  44.33 44.96 47.25
         
Plastic consumption        
Volume of plastic purchased (kg) 6 203 909  9 642 719 7 964 812 8 392 168
         
Climate – GHG        
Scope 1 (tCO2e)* 173 862  156 638 168 064 169 912
Scope 2 (tCO2e) (location based) 7009  8 210 8 821 7 240
Scope 3 (tCO2e) 1 753 264  1 728 841 1 704 629 1 640 179
         
SUM Scope 1,2 and 3 (location based) 1 934 134 1 893 688 1 881 514 1 817 331
Scope 2 (tCO2e) (market based) 88 228 99 862 86 428 65 028
Biogenic emissions from Scope 1 (tCO2e) 5799  7 270 1 290 -
Biogenic emissions from Scope 3 (tCO2e) 0 0 0 -
         
Transport        
Transported by road (%) 11.8 11 53 79
Transported by sea (%) 0.7 1 19 12
Transported by air (%) 87.5 88 29 9
Breaches of legislation and regulations related to the environment (%) 0 0 0 0
         
Whistleblowing cases   2025 2024  
Category   Number reported cases / 
Confirmed case
Number reported cases / 
Confirmed case
 
Internal cases related to        
Health and safety   13/5 9/0  
Workers rights   0/0 1/0  
CoC/Policies   8/0 8/2  
Corruption   0/0 0/0  
Environment   0/0 0/0  
Suppliers   1/0 0/0  
Customers   0/0 0/0  
External cases related to        
Health and safety   1/0 1/0  
Workers rights   0/0 0/0  
CoC/Policies   0/0 0/0  
Corruption   0/0 0/0  
Environment   2/2 3/1  
Suppliers   1/1 0/0  
Customers   1/0 0/0  
Total   27/8 22/3  
         
*) Description of methodology used and assumptions made in developing the greenhouse gas statements[AL1]  can be found at https://www.leroyseafood.com/en/sustainability/sustainability-library-2025/climate/