Icelandic salmon farmer chooses to go with the 'flow
Samherji Fiskeldi has agreed a strategic collaboration with Norwegian company Cflow for supply of technology to a 36,000-tonne land-based fish farm.
Cflow AS has been selected as the supplier of water treatment systems for Salmon Garden, a large land-based Atlantic salmon farm in Iceland.
The facility is being developed by Samherji Fiskeldi, a subsidiary of the Icelandic seafood group Samherji, and will have an annual harvest capacity of 36,000 tonnes when completed. The first construction phase will have a capacity of 12,000 tonnes annually.
The choice of Cflow is based on experience from a pilot plant in Oxarfjordur in northeastern Iceland, where the company has supplied water treatment technology since 2023. The technology will handle filtration, CO2 removal and nitrogen reduction, and ensure good water flow and oxygenation in the tanks.
A new standard
"Salmon Garden sets a new standard for sustainable and energy-efficient salmon production, and we are proud to contribute with solutions that provide better control, better fish welfare, and higher production efficiency," said Lars Erik Aalhus, tender manager at Cflow.
Located in southwest Iceland, where it utilises cold water, good infrastructure, and surplus energy from geothermal power, Salmon Garden has been under development since 2020 and is designed to reduce operational complexity by utilising reliable and proven technology.
The first phase is now fully funded through a combination of equity and syndicated debt, with contributions from Icelandic and international investors. A total of €235 million has been raised.
"Through the pilot plant, we were able to test and further develop a solution that ensures stable water quality and a good production environment for the fish," said Jon Kjartan Jonsson, general manager of Samherji Fiskeldi.
