Vogar Incubation Centre

Our Incubation Centre is located next to the broodstock farm in Vogarvik at the southwest coast of Iceland. The centre was acquired in 2004, and the first eggs were incubated in 2006. A brand-new incubation facility, the largest of its kind in the world, was opened on August 23, 2022, by the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries.

We can keep more than 100 million eggs incubated in the centre at any given time. The total annual production capacity is approximately 200 million ova, with the possibility of expanding to 300 million with minimal investment.

The incubation center is designed to keep salmon eggs from fertilization to the eyed egg stage, when they are ready to be shipped. All used freshwater is pumped up from deep boreholes. This ensures high quality water that is naturally filtered without having been in any contact with wild fish.

The center is equipped with single-incubators specially designed to incubate eggs from each female separately. Even though no virus- or bacteria diseases has been detected at the site so far, the individual incubation enables us to screen each female.