March 2017 - The breeding company AquaGen has today signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Profunda, a facility in Barstadvik, Møre and Romsdal county, Norway that produces land-based broodstock of Atlantic salmon.
The agreement was signed by CEO in AquaGen, Nina Santi and general manager in Profunda, Helge Ressem.
The facility is placed on a moraine ridge, and has an almost unlimited capacity of marine groundwater from wells drilled fifty meters down in the ground. The thick gravel materials provide a very good filtering of the seawater, and this gives an unique biosafety status of the water and the fish produced. Profunda has, since 2010 produced several generations of salmon broodstock.
Throughout the production period there has been no incidents of disease or detections of fish virus at the plant.
The tank volume at the facility is currently 1,350 m3, and there are large areas available for expansion of the capacity. The facility also has access to fresh ground water.