Marianne Sivertsen Næss from the Labour Party has been the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans since April this year. The 50-year-old from Hammerfest in the very north of Norway has a long political experience. As early as 2011, she was elected deputy mayor of Hammerfest municipality and in 2019 she took over the mayor’s club.…
Christian Rønning is Department manager in the Process department at Pure Salmon Technology AS (Norway). He has a Master of Science in Environmental Technology from the University of Manchester. He worked several years in the pulp and paper industry before he joined Krüger Kaldnes in 2011 as Project Manager for aquaculture projects. Since 2017 he has…
Kate F. Stenerud is Commercial Director for Salmon at Benchmark. She joined Benchmark in 2020, bringing with her a wide network and over 20 years of experience in the feed industry from her time at BioMar. Here she held various positions in sales, key account management and product management, in addition to active involvement in…
Per Anton is an experienced veterinarian who, together with the company MarinHelse AS, entered the Åkerblå Group system in July 2020. He graduated from the Justus Liebig University in Germany in 1993 and has worked closely with the aquaculture industry ever since. In addition to being a senior consultant at Åkerblå, he also has a…
Siri Vike has 26 years of experience in fish farming and fish health, through companies such as Møre Edelfisk, EWOS, Mainstream Chile, Cermaq, PHARMAQ Analytiq and Zoetis. She has worked internationally with various fish species as a researcher, supplier, fish farmer and held several leading positions. She is currently Director of Fish Health and Animal…
Chris Good is the Director of Research at The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute in Shepherdstown, West Virginia USA. His focus is on developing and overseeing the institute’s aquaculture research programs, producing peer-reviewed publications, presenting research findings at international scientific conferences, and interacting with key industry, government, and non-profit stakeholders. Since 2007, Chris has worked as…
Ingrid Lein is a senior scientist at Nofima at Sunndalsøra. For more than 30 years, she has worked with reproductive biology and fry production in various marine fish species. She has also worked to find causes of developmental defects in salmon and rainbow trout. She is particularly interested in how egg quality, environment and nutrition…
Erik-Jan Lock is the Research Director at the Department of Nutrition and Feed Technology in the Nofima. He holds a master’s degree in aquaculture from Wageningen University and a PhD in fish physiology from Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. For several years he worked as a senior scientist and research group leader at the…
Timo Rosche is Global RAS Manager at Grieg Seafood. He is a educated engineer from Germany with a Master of Science in Aquaculture from NMBU in Ås (Norway). He has more than ten years of experience from RAS processes in the industry, where he was responsible for dimensioning, start-up and commissioning of RAS facilities before…
Dr. Bente Ruyter is Senior Research Scientist for Fish nutrition at Nofima, Ås Norway and Professor II in fish nutrition at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). For more than 20 years, Ruyter has worked with different aspects of lipid nutrition in fish with a main emphasis on tolerance for new feed ingredients. Responses to…
