Biggest Salmon Producer Wants to Farm Fish Inside Cargo Ship
- Industry, hit by Norway pest outbreak, considers new methods
- Marine Harvest applies to build fish farm inside a Panamax
The panamax container ship.
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The world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer wants to start farming fish inside a ship rather than the sea.
Building traditional fish farms on the open water in Norway has become almost impossible because of state rules intended to curb outbreaks of sea lice, a parasite that can kill young fish. So raising salmon inside an unwanted cargo ship is one of a few options proposed by Marine Harvest ASA, which is trying to boost production at a time when prices are near a record high.