Austevoll Seafood ASA Provides Production Guidance for the Year 2021
February 18, 2021
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Austevoll Seafood ASA provided production guidance for the year 2021. The Group maintains its projections of a harvest volume for 2021, including associates, of 205,000-210,000 tonnes. The company is expecting this year to have increased it to 50,000 tonnes up to 450,000 tonnes of total catch ofpelagic fish. It is estimating to process pelagic factories approximately 1.9 million tonnes, which is more or less in line with what we did last year. And on whitefish, we are aiming to increase from approximately 100,000 to 110,000 tonnes with whitefish in 2021. And we are also estimating an increase of 190,000 to 250,000 tonnes of salmon during from 2020 to 2021.
Austevoll Seafood ASA (AUSS) is a Norway-based holding company. The Company is involved in pelagic operations within fisheries, production of fishmeal and fish oil, and frozen pelagic consumer products. The Company has sales operations in Norway, Europe, Asia, the USA and South America. Its activities are divided into operating segments and reflect its portfolio companies: Leroey Seafood Group ASA, which is involved in fish farming; Austral Group S.A.A., that is engaged in the production of fishmeal, fish oil, canned fish and frozen fish; Foodcorp Chile S.A., that is engaged in production of frozen fish, canned fish, fishmeal and fish oil.; Br. Birkeland AS, that holds pelagic fishing licences utilised by two purse-seiner fishing vessels; Br. Birkeland Farming AS, that holds seven salmon farming licences in the Western Region of Norway and the joint venture Pelagia Holding AS, that is engaged in production of fishmeal, fish oil, Omega-3 oil and frozen fish for direct human consumption.