Look to Nature Our Focus Is Healthy Food
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BREMNES FRYSERI Look to Nature Our focus is healthy food. We harvest the sea. We create good workplaces. We ensure sustainable production. We build on local pride and identity. Our quality is uncompromising. That’s what Bremnes Fryseri stands for! 2 BREMNES SEASHORE AS (100 %) Smolt, fish for consumption, processing and packing SALMON BRANDS AS (100 %) Marketing and sales for SALMA products KALD FISK AS (100 %) BREMNES FRYSERI AS Research and development Parent company, holdings and properties SØLVFISK AS (100 %) License holder, smolt production OCEAN QUALITY AS (40 %) Sale and distribution of whole fish and processed salmon SÆVAREID FISKEANLEGG AS (16.67 %) Smolt production 3 It is truly a privilege to be able to offer the finest seafood “ available to our customers in Norway Olav Svendsen Sr, ca. 1965. and abroad. 4 Pioneer and Innovator Ever since its inception in 1937, Bremnes plant of its type in the world. Always its headquarters in Oslo, with sales offices Fryseri has remained a family owned and experimenting, we made our first internationally. Olav Svendsen Jr. operated company. The founder was my attempts at hatching trout roe. A trout In recent years we have expanded our CEO father, Olav Svendsen Sr, who started hatchery at Goddo and trout farming in a facilities in the Bømlo archipelago, with a doing business in kelp and seaweed closed cove near Øklandsvågen formed major new building that contains a cutting on the quays of his home village of the foundation for further expansion. edge fish processing plant, refrigeration Øklandsvågen in Bømlo. He may have Bremnes Fryseri has always been terminal and administrative offices. been a mere 14 years old, but he had a pioneer and innovator, continually Now as then, it’s vital to preserve our enthusiasm and vision, as well as a knack developing better ways to sustainably local identity. That includes remaining for buying and selling. It didn’t take long harvest resources from the seas. an attractive employer. We take many before my grandfather put him in charge For us it is truly a privilege to offer measures to promote the well being of of his lobster and salmon trade, which Norwegian consumers and markets our employees and their families. Bremnes for centuries had been the mainstay of abroad the very best seafood available. Fryseri sponsors local sports teams, Øklandsvågen trading post. In 1946, just Our quality assurance is renowned as cultural work and youth activities. after the way, they started building a new uncompromising, and a skilled workforce As you can see, our company’s history facility at Kvednavikjo, on the other side has enabled us to create Norway’s leading is founded on the pioneering spirit. Today of the harbour. Soon Bremnes Frysery brand for fresh fish. we continue to innovate in order to was receiving daily catches of mackerel, Our salmon farming facilities control remain the market leader when it comes canning mackerel roe, receiving prawns the entire value chain, from hatchery to quality. I am confident that with such and craps, saithe and sturgeon. to fish processing. Success has made skilled people on my team, we will reach A new era started in the 1950s, and our company one of Norway’s largest the new goals we have set! for almost 30 years porbeagle, a shark salmon producers. Bremnes Fryseri is whose taste is reminiscent of veal, was still situated in Øklandsvågen, but has the company’s most important catch. expanded with many additional facilities In fact, we operated the largest fish throughout Norway. Salmon Brands has BREMNES FRYSERI 5 6 Knowledge and Wisdom Yield the Best Harvest The philosophy behind Bremnes Fryseri’s salmon production is simple: “Look to nature”. At every stage of the salmon’s development, from fertilised roe to adult fish, we do our utmost to replicate natural conditions, building on our extensive knowledge of salmon biology. Our prime objective is to ensure that our salmon remain healthy and thrive – that core value permeates every stage of our operations. Let’s start with the roe. At our facility we Salmon thrive best when they’re not our salmon are healthier and happier gently place it on an artificial river bottom over-crowded. That’s why our salmon for the extra space. Extra deep salmon that resembles the ones where wild are given a larger volume of water than pens allow each fish to seek the water salmon spawn. at facilities operated by many of our level and temperature it prefers at any Currently, Bremnes Fryseri operates competitors. In our 160-metre wide fish moment. fish farms at 23 locations. At each of pens, the fully mature salmon take up After the smolt are released into the them we make sure there are current less than one percent of the space – the salmon pen, they remains there until fully conditions that ensure an ample supply of rest of the volume is clean, circulating mature. We never move salmon from one fresh, clean seawater. We regularly adjust seawater. This concentration of fish is facility to another. In this way, we avoid the placement of each facility to account less than half of that which is allowed by exposing the salmon to unnecessary for local currents and conditions. government regulations, but we believe stress. BREMNES FRYSERI 7 A Secure Production Process that Ensures Top Quality! Roe Fry Transfer of smolt JANUARY 2011 MARCH 2011 APRIL 2012 In close cooperation with In our freshwater facility, the When the salmon smolt reach broodstock facilities, we roe hatch and salmon fry care 100 grams, they are transferred to have developed a roe with closely monitored as they our sea cages, where they live until excellent characteristics. grow. mature and are ready for harvesting. 8 BREMNES FRYSERI A Secure Production Process that Ensures Top Quality! Growth Harvesting/Processing To the consumer APRIL 2012–AUGUST 2013 AUGUST 2013 At all of our facilities, clean When the salmon are 5 kg, they A broad range of products for the water, good flow conditions and are transported live from the fish consumer market are prepared for extra large fish cages ensure the farms to the processing plant in distribution to customers all over salmon’s health and well being. Øklandsvåg. the world. BREMNES FRYSERI 9 Inge Robberstad Hatchery Supervisor 10 x The Farmer’s Son Who Became an Expert on Salmon Smolt Inge Robberstad grew up on a farm, aspiring to husbandry as a livelihood – but life led him in another direction. Today he farms the sea. His plans were clear; Inge wanted to expertise is required to raise high-quality “We need an orderly workplace that attend agricultural school, but the smolt. With 35 years experience in allows us to be fully focused on fish health minimum age for admissions was 18 aquaculture, Inge is definitely the right and welfare. We do our utmost to ensure years. In 1978, while waiting impatiently man for the job. that they have ideal conditions for their for his birthday, the 17-year-old visited “This was one of the first salmon smolt development and growth. For instance, Øklandsvågen and asked Olav Svendsen facilities in the country. Through the our salmon fry have twice as large tanks Sr. if he could work for him. “Come back years, we’ve expanded and rebuilt three as required by Norwegian regulations. tomorrow, and we’ll see if we have or four times, always with the intention of something for you.” remaining the best salmon smolt producer Won’t run out of work Since that day, Inge has been in Norway.” The wellboats leaving the Gjeravågen employed by Bremnes Fryseri. facility carry away live smolt in one of “There has been incredible Fish health and welfare two sizes: 90 grams or 100–120 grams. development,” says Inge. Inge tells us at great length about the However, there’s no chance of Inge and fertilised salmon roe, about the hatching his colleagues running out of work. The right man at the right place process, the precise temperatures “The tanks are constantly being He manages the facility at Gjeravågen needed in the tanks, about fry feed and replenished with salmon at various stages in Bømlo, one of the three salmon smolt vaccinations. Crucial procedures and key of development. In all the years I’ve been farms operated by Bremnes Fryseri. environmental parameters are tacked to here, there has never been any lack of Gjeravågen is licensed to produce up the walls. The entire facility is orderly and work,” says the farmer’s son who became to 1.2 million fish per year, and great clean, inside as well as outside. an expert farmer of the sea. BREMNES FRYSERI 11 Cautious Beginnings At Bremnes Fryseri we use roe from biological challenges they will encounter for its smolt facilities. The rest of the the Salmo Breed. The production of during the production period. production cycle is carefully managed in broodstock and roe is the result of a Every broodstock facility that provides our own closely monitored facilities. carefully controlled breeding programme. our roe is certified in accordance with the The objective is to ensure a high yield GlobalGAP standard, a guarantee that of smolt, a high production of superior the production is fully controlled. Roe quality salmon and optimal filet yield. production has to be based on careful Another priority of the breeding family breeding work, in order to produce programme is to achieve healthy salmon salmon with the very best traits possible. that have good natural resistance to the Bremnes Fryseri purchases eyed eggs 12 BREMNES FRYSERI SETTEFISK Salmon Fry by the Thousands! We operate three smolt facilities, at The environmental parameters at Knowledge is the key to producing Gjeravåg and Skålevik in the Bømlo these facilities vary; as a result, the quality salmon fry and smolt.