Lerøy increased harvest by 7% last year

Salmonid farmer Lerøy Seafood Group harvested 56,800 gutted weight tonnes of Atlantic salmon and trout in Norway in the final quarter of last year, up from 47,500 gwt in the same period in 2023, it said in a trading update today.

Lerøy harvested 171,200 gwt of salmon and trout in 2024, an increase of 11,600 gwt (7.2%) compared to the 159,600 gwt harvested in 2023.

The figures do not include the company’s half share of fish produced by Scotland’s second largest salmon farmer, Scottish Sea Farms, which Lerøy owns 50-50 with SalMar.

Bigger harvest

Harvest figures for SSF won’t be made public until the Q4 2024 reports of Lerøy and SalMar are published in February, but the Scotland company had a strong year, raising full-year guidance by 3,000 gwt to 40,000 gwt in November.

Lerøy harvest volumes by region/company for Q4 2024 (Q4 2023), were:

• Lerøy Aurora (northern Norway): 15,400 gwt (12,500 gwt)
• Lerøy Midt (central Norway): 22,600 gwt (20,300 gwt)
• Lerøy Sjøtroll (southern Norway): 18,800 gwt, of which 8,200 gwt was trout (14,700 gwt of which 6,500 gwt was trout)

Lerøy’s wild catch division, Lerøy Havfisk, caught 65,000 tonnes of fish in 2024, down from 75,900 tonnes in 2023. Catch quotas for fish such as cod have been reduced this year.

Lerøy’s full Q4 report will be published on February 28.