StofnFiskur, part of Benchmark,
shipped 400,000 eggs out of Reykjavik on 26 November and these are now
undergoing quality control before being transferred to the hatching
racks of the facility - which has permits to produce up to 90,000 tonnes
of salmon a year when fully built. The eggs will form the facility's
first cohort of salmon, which are due to be harvested in the third
quarter of 2020.
StofnFiskur's production model has some similarities with the Atlantic
Sapphire model, holding the broodstock in land-based systems throughout
the entire life cycle, and using deep drilled well water, free of any
contagious pathogens. The company's closed compartment system makes it
the only salmon egg producer in Europe to have been approved according
to World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) standards. Through the years, StofnFiskur has developed products specially adapted
for land-based systems and have significant experience in supplying
ova across the world. The breeding operations in Iceland provide eggs
every month of the year in order to satisfy the demand by the new and
fast developing global land-based salmon industry. Photo: Atlantic Sapphire's Christy Belfranin with some of the Icelandic salmon eggs 
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