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Even Tronstad Sagebakken

In 2023, Even Tronstad Sagebakken became State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries with responsibility…

Christian Rønning

Christian Rønning is Department manager in the Process department at Pure Salmon Technology AS (Norway). He has a Master…

Kate Furhovden Stenerud

Kate F. Stenerud is Commercial Director for Salmon at Benchmark. She joined Benchmark in 2020, bringing with her…

Per Anton Sæther

Per Anton is an experienced veterinarian who, together with the company MarinHelse AS, entered the Åkerblå Group system…

Siri Vike

Siri Vike has 26 years of experience in fish farming and fish health, through companies such as Møre…

Christopher Good

Chris Good is the Director of Research at The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute in Shepherdstown, West Virginia USA.…

Ingrid Lein

Ingrid Lein is a senior scientist at Nofima at Sunndalsøra. For more than 30 years, she has worked…

What is required for successful smolt production in the future?

Good smolt is the key to successful salmon farming. Should it grow big on land to perform better…

Erik-Jan Lock

Erik-Jan Lock is the Research Director at the Department of Nutrition and Feed Technology in the Nofima. He…

Timo Rosche

Timo Rosche is Global RAS Manager at Grieg Seafood. He is a educated engineer from Germany with a…

Bente Ruyter

Dr. Bente Ruyter is Senior Research Scientist for Fish nutrition at Nofima, Ås Norway and Professor II in…

Christine Klykken

Christine Klykken is a researcher at Aqua Kompetanse AS and has been part of the aquaculture industry since…

Marius Takvam

Marius Takvam is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen (UiB) and has an adjunct position as…

Roman Netzer

Roman Netzer is a senior researcher in the Aquaculture Department at SINTEF Ocean and has been with SINTEF…

Alf Seljenes Dalum

Alf Seljenes Dalum is a researcher at Aqua Competence and an adjunct professor at the University of Tromsø.…

Øyvind Opdahl Viga

Øyvind Opdahl Viga is production coordinator at Tytlandsvik Aqua. He has a master’s degree in fisheries from UiT…

Øyvind Mikkelsen

Øyvind Mikkelsen is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, where his…

Rakesh Ranjan

Rakesh Ranjan is a Research Scientist at the Freshwater Institute. Dr. Ranjan leads research in precision aquaculture. His…

Kevin Torben Stiller

Before coming to Nofima in 2018, Kevin had overseen the close containment lab of the University of British…

Astrid Buran Holan

Astrid Buran Holan is Head of Fish Welfare in ScaleAQ group, which is an international company within aquaculture…

Carlo C. Lazado

Carlo C. Lazado is a senior scientist in fish health in Nofima. He obtained his PhD in Aquatic…

2024: Research and industry meet at ” Smolt Production of the Future”

The conference is an arena for knowledge exchange between fish farmers and researchers. The two days in October…

Anja Striberny

Anja Striberny has been employed as a researcher at Nofima in Tromsø since 2021, where she works within…

Trine Ytrestøyl (Nofima)

Trine Ytrestøyl is originally from Trondheim where she studied biology at NTNU – The Norwegian University of Science…

Inger Lise Breivik studied at the University of Bergen and is a qualified aquaculture biologist. She has worked…

Egil Bergersen is general manager of Aquafarm Equipment, supplier of the Aquafarm, a closed aquaculture system at sea.…

Throughout his entire working life, Arne has worked in the aquaculture industry. His work experience includes tending net-pens,…

Åsa Maria Espmark

Åsa Espmark is an Acting Research Director at Nofima, with long experience as senior researcher in Nofima and…

Technical Director Aud Skrudland, Norwegian Food Safety Authority – Region Midt. Veterinarian, specialist in fish diseases, further education…

Paulo Fernandes

Paulo Mira Fernandes is a researcher in aquaculture at NIVA (Norwegian Institute for Water Research). He holds a…

Stine Wiborg Dahle is a Senior Research Scientist at The Aquaculture Department at SINTEF Ocean.  Through many research…

Process engineer and R&D coordinator at Pure Salmon Kaldnes AS (Norway) Sharada Navada is a process engineer with…

Andre Meriac

Andre Meriac works as a resource coordinator at Nofima’s research station at Sunndalsøra. His primary tasks are to…

Tom Ole Nilsen

Tom Ole Nilsen is an associate professor in aquaculture biology at the University of Bergen. He has more…

M. Naveed Yousaf holds a PhD in aquaculture and is working as a Researcher fish health in Skretting…

Svein Martinsen, Head of development in Morefish AS: Working with entrepreneurship, management, concept development landbased and training /…

John Davidson

John Davidson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Freshwater Institute. He has authored over 50 research articles…

René Alvestad

René Alvestad is a research scientist in Nofima. He has broad competencies within aquaculture production systems, production techniques,…

Commercial director salmon for Benchmark, within genetics and animal health. Here he has the global responsibility for salmon…

Christian Rønning (Pure Salmon Kaldnes)

Department manager, Process department, Pure Salmon Kaldnes AS (Norway) Christian Rønning has a Master of Science in Environmental…

Astrid Buran Holan is the Head of Development – Closed Aquaculture Technology at ScaleAQ. She works with the…

Marius Haegh holds the position as Director of Sales & Process at VAQ AS. He has previously had…

Maria is a partner and leader of EY’s consulting services in Bergen. She is leading the Global Consulting…

Eirik Mikkelsen is a senior researcher at Nofima, and particularly studies the economic and social aspects of aquaculture.…

Audun Iversen has worked as a researcher at Nofima since 1998, with the economics and management of both…

Lars Galtung – Chief Sustainability and Corporate Communication Officer Cermaq Lars Galtung has background from similar roles in…

Research and quality manager in FishGLOBE; Can. scientist in general aquaculture from UIB I work with fish biology…

Jelena Kolarevic is a Professor in RAS biology at the UiT, The Arctic University of Norway.  She is…

Susanna is scientific advisor at Dyrevernalliansen, the Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance. Susanna works to improve the welfare of…

Position: Senior advisor, the Directorate of Fisheries. Education: M.Sc in Aquaculture Biology Workplace: The Directorate of Fisheries, Bergen,…

Kristina S. Hansen

After just over a year of the Gahr Støre government being in place in Norway, a clearer line…

Hanne Digre

Hanne Digre will discuss how the industry can contribute to a green shift in aquaculture. What do we…

Green transition at the 2022 smolt conference at Sunndalsøra

Registration is well underway for this autumn’s conference “Future Smolt Production” at Sunndalsøra. This will be the seventh…

Bente Torstensen

What will it take for research to bring about the Green Shift in aquaculture? Hear Bente Torstensen’s views…

“Future smolt production” 2020 goes digital

Audience from all over the world are virtually welcome to the aquaculture town of Sunndalsøra and the webinar…

2018: Discussed how to produce smolt in the future

330 participants from 10 countries joined the fifth conference on recirculation in aquaculture at Sunndalsøra at the CtrlAQUA and Nofima…