Alf-Kare Askeland's Contact Details

Alf-Kare Askeland's Company Details

Smart Salmon

Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway • 3 Employees
Food Production

We are a flexible & sustainable land-based salmon company with projects in Norway and France. We are a multi-disciplinary team of aquaculture experts with years of experience and a passion for the industry. We are socially and environmentally conscious. For Smart Salmon it is important how we conduct business operations, so that they are not only profitable but also responsible, making the right impact in the long term, for the environment and people.Smart Salmon has the ambition to play a key role in contributing to more sustainable food production in two ways:1. Smart Salmon will contribute to a more sustainable salmon production at sea by moving a bigger part of the production cycle to land to produce larger smolt at 500-1000 grams with our project in Norway. Reducing larger smolt production at sea, will result in less lice treatments, less disease, and less environmental impact.2. There is a strong interest in land-based production of full-grown salmon, and Smart Salmon believes that full-grown salmon production on land is a sustainable solution for the future. There is a strong interest for it in the market, and it is our main focus with our project in France – a full cycle 10.000 tonnes salmon production located only 4 hours driving from Paris. Our facility will grow from eggs to full grown salmon and we will also have on-site processing of consumer brand products. These on-site operations will reduce transportation emissions and therefore reduce our carbon footprint. The facility's only outlet will be cleansed water as waste will be recycled as resources: biogas (methane/hydrogen) plants will convert sludge into electric power for salmon production; catching CO2 and nutrients from sludge will be used in greenhouse productions. Our ambition is to have a land-based salmon production that is carbon-neutral.Smart Salmon – Sustainable land-based salmon production.