How can a fish farmer make smart use of new data technologies and analytics to improve salmon welfare? Eighteen years after the first ‘Smolt Production in the Future’ conference, technology has become an integral part of production management. “Advanced technology is nothing new in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and closed-containment facilities. But at this year’s…
Ståle Walderhaug, 51, holds a PhD in computer science and IT systems development and has more than 25 years of experience at SINTEF. His work there has included IT solutions for the Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Medical Services, the development of FiskInfo—a digital tool widely used along the Norwegian coast—and projects for the smolt-production sector.…
Kristoffer Lindbäck Larsen is Founder and CTO of Evolys AS. Since its establishment in 2014, Evolys has taken a scientific approach to the use of technology-based lighting in Atlantic salmon and trout farming. As a Norwegian research and technology company, its work has focused primarily on understanding how optimal techno-economic performance and fish health can…
Nina Santi is Managing Partner in the consultancy INAQ and has broad experience in management, production, and research and development across the entire salmon value chain. INAQ has recently completed a wide-ranging analysis of structural characteristics in Norway’s smolt-production sector. In this presentation, Nina will share selected insights from that analysis. The findings will also…
Dr Åsa Maria Espmark is based in Sunndalsøra and is Research Director of the Production Biology department within Nofima’s Aquaculture division. As a researcher and later a senior scientist, she has worked on welfare, welfare indicators and stress in farmed fish, with a particular focus on salmon. In recent years, her work has focused on…
Finn Weltzien is Director for the Aquaculture Division at Nofima. He is a trained zoophysiologist from the University of Bergen, and his research has focused particularly on the regulation of puberty and sexual maturation in fish. Since 2008, he has been a Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Weltzien has extensive leadership…
Sigrun P. Eriksen is Biological Controller, Freshwater, for Mowi’s Region North. She holds a master’s degree in fisheries science from the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, and spent a summer semester at UC Berkeley through the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship (Gründerskolen) at the University of Oslo. Sigrun joined Mowi in 2021. Until this year, she…
Anja Striberny is a scientist at Nofima’s Production Biology Department. She completed her PhD at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2018 and has since worked primarily on projects investigating how key environmental factors, such as light and temperature, affect fish physiology, health and welfare. Her particular focus is smolt production and how environmental…
Harald Ian Muri is a Research Scientist at SINTEF Ocean, where he works on light environments and lighting technology in aquaculture. He investigates how light sources, water quality and facility design affect the intensity, spectral composition and distribution of light in water, and how these factors relate to fish vision and biological responses to light.…
Kjetil Korsnes is the Chief Executive Officer of AquaPredict AS and holds a part-time position at Nord University in Bodø. He has extensive experience in fish health and salmon physiology, and his day-to-day work involves turning biological knowledge into practical tools for smolt production. In his presentation, he examines what truly characterises a good smolt—and…
