Norway's farmed salmon biomass reaches 887,600 tonnes at end-September, down 0.2% year on year
Data published by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries on 20 October show that Norway's standing biomass of farmed salmon at the end of September was 887,558 tonnes, down 0.2% from 889,020 tonnes in the same period last year, levelling off at a high level.
Statistics published by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries on 20 October show that as of the end of September, Norway's standing biomass of farmed salmon was 887,558 tonnes, compared with 889,020 tonnes in the same month last year, a year-on-year decrease of 0.2%.
By generation, the 2026 generation stood at 308,157 tonnes at the end of September, while the 2025 generation was 296,588 tonnes in September last year. The 2025 generation stood at 578,454 tonnes at the end of September, compared with 588,765 tonnes for the 2024 generation in the same month a year earlier. Fish from earlier releases totalled 939 tonnes at the end of September, compared with 3,693 tonnes in the same month last year.
In terms of average weight, the 2026 generation, the 2025 generation and fish from earlier releases weighed 1.059 kg, 3.691 kg and 5.625 kg respectively. In the same month last year, the average weights of the 2025 generation, the 2024 generation and fish from earlier releases were 0.995 kg, 3.436 kg and 2.808 kg respectively.