Mowi ASA, formerly known as Marine Harvest ASA, , is a Norwegian seafood company with operations in a number of countries around the world. The company's primary interest is fish farming, primarily salmon, the operations of which are focused on Norway, Scotland, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Ireland and Chile. The group has a share of 25 to 30% of the global salmon and trout market, making it the world's largest company in the sector. Mowi also owns a 'value added processing' unit, which prepares and distributes a range of seafood products, and a number of smaller divisions.
Mowi operation on Loch Ailort, Scotland, one of the oldest Atlantic salmon farms.
Entrance to a Marine Harvest farm on Loch Arkaig, Lochaber, Scotland.
Aqua-Boy, a Norwegian live fish carrier used to service the Marine Harvest fish farms on the West coast of Scotland
The aquaculture of salmonids is the farming and harvesting of salmonid fish under controlled conditions for both commercial and recreational purposes. Salmonids, along with carp and tilapia, are the three most important fish groups in aquaculture. The most commonly commercially farmed salmonid is the Atlantic salmon.
Salmon farm in the archipelago of Finland
Assynt salmon hatchery, near Inchnadamph in the Scottish Highlands
Very young fertilised salmon eggs, notice the developing eyes and vertebral column.
Salmon egg hatching: In about 24 hr, it will be a fry without the yolk sac.