WellFish Tech renews partnership with farmer planning 50,000-tonne facility
WellFish Tech is renewing its partnership with Norwegian land-based fish farmer Bue Salmon, it announced today. Bue Salmon has been a WellFish Tech customer since September last year, using routine blood biomarker analysis at its pilot facility at Gjørøy Nord in Bulandet to generate the biological data needed to make production decisions ahead of challenges, and to identify which operational strategies are delivering results.
“For us, it is about using data to make better decisions,” Heidi Johansen Nedberg, fish health and quality consultant at Bue Salmon, said in a press release. “The continuous analyses give us an earlier and clearer picture of how the fish are doing, and that enables us to work proactively rather than reactively.”
The renewal comes as Bue Salmon advances significant development work at Lutelandet in Vestland, where the company holds a 50,000-tonne licence and has recently begun preparatory groundworks for what it intends to become Norway’s largest land-based salmon farming facility.
Proactive, not reactive
“When you are scaling a production model that has never been done at this size before, you cannot afford to be reactive,” said Bue Salmon chief executive Knut Eikeland.
“Blood biomarker analysis gives us the biological data we need to make the right calls before problems arise, and to understand which parts of our operation are actually performing. That kind of insight is going to be critical as we move into Lutelandet.”
WellFish Tech chief executive Charlie Granfelt said: “Renewing a partnership is always a meaningful signal. It tells us the data is being used, and that it is making a difference. We are looking forward to continuing that work with Bue as they move into the next phase of their development.”
WellFish Tech AS is a subsidiary of WellFish Tech Ltd, based in Paisley, Scotland. The company was founded as Wellfish Diagnostics by Brian Quinn, professor of ecotoxicology at the University of the West of Scotland’s Aquaculture Health Laboratory, in 2021, and has grown rapidly. It currently employs 26 people, and operates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Norway, and Canada.
