Biosecurity policies and fish health follow up are adapted to the targeted species and the relevant pathogens.
We have invested in biosecure land-sites for our in-house production of broodstock and eggs in Norway and Iceland. Our sites in Iceland are certified ISA-free compartments and have WOAH compartment status.
In Norway, we also hold broodstock at sea through our licensed producers, but the same biosecurity and risk-mitigation principles apply to all production models. Our end goal is to ensure safe and biosecure eggs for our customers.
All breeders used for egg production must be healthy without any signs of disease. In the Closed Broodstock Production Model, we have a different set of tools compared to the two other production strategies (Figure 1).
The principles of strictly healthy breeders for safe egg production are applied across our entire production. The Closed Broodstock Production Model allows us to work much more targeted with pathogen detection than for broodstock that has been reared in the sea.
