Norway Raises Output Quotas For Salmon Farmers

Norway will allow fish farming companies to raise their salmon and trout output capacity in nine of the country’s 13 ocean farming regions, its fisheries minister has said.

The system of regulating growth in salmon and trout farming will allow for annual net capacity growth of up to 23,000 tonnes of salmon and trout.

Known as the “traffic light” system, the capacity regulation uses a red, green and yellow colour coding system to identify which regions are allowed to grow based on environmental factors such as the prevalence of sea lice.

While fish farmers in nine regions were given a green light to raise output by up to 6%, two regions were designated as yellow, and must thus keep output unchanged, while two were red and must cut by 6%.

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