The day started with a trip out from Rosendal with “Vision of the Fjords” to see the unveiling of Salmon Eye outside Snilstveitøy. On the boat trip, sushi was served for the occasion, of course with salmon from Eide. The general manager of Salmon Eye, Sebastian Torjusen, also talked about the construction process, which has been anything but A4…
The responsibility for the actual unveiling was given to the youngest woman in the third generation of Eide salmon farmers. After an inspiring speech in which, among other things, she paid tribute to her father, second generation salmon farmer Knut Frode Eide, she counted down to the unveiling which took place in the form of the world’s largest kabuki drop made at sea.
After the unveiling, world famous artist Sigrid appeared on the roof terrace of Salmon Eye for a surprise concert on the Fjord. The event on the sea was rounded off with a livestreamed round table conference on sustainable aquaculture together with leading experts in the field.
The party continued in the center of Rosendal, with excellent food and drink from local suppliers, and entertainment for both young and old. The evening ended with a free concert with Sigrid, Kjartan Lauritzen and DDE.
The sun was shining on the beautiful Hardanger fjord and Rosendal town, and we had a fantastic day together with our nearly 3,000 guests.
A warm thank you to everyone who spent the day together with us!
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A safe place to work in our opinion is a job where you can work safely and feel safe that your job will still be there tomorrow. In practice this implies that we put the safety of our people first and also invest in knowledge and development to maintain high qualified jobs in the communities also for the next generation. All our employees are also equipped with safety radios connected to a 24/7 alarm center.
We have a dedicated system in place to handle HSE-risks and continuously perform risk assessments related to HSE and register and follow up deviations and incidents. The HSE management system applies to, and is accessible to all our staff, permanent and temporary. Subcontractors are obliged to comply with our HSE rules and procedures.
Eide’s vision is to set the standard for future aquaculture. This also applies within internal control and management. All activities we do must be managed with risk, and all employees are responsible for contributing to this work as best as possible.
Risks identified as a result of risk mapping are classified to identify risks that are above an acceptable risk level. Measures are implemented and barriers established to reduce risk as far as practically possible. Measures and barriers are then incorporated into the processes, activities or work operations where they are relevant.
In addition to the overall risk approach of the HSE management system, a process has been established for risk mapping of deviations that may have a negative impact on people, fish (welfare or quality), environment, economy or reputation. Risk management is continuous management of the residual risk that remains after risk mapping, risk identification and risk reduction have been carried out.
Our employees carry out first aid courses, courses in escape prevention and courses in the use of security radios. In addition, they take part in emergency drills and HSE reviews on location. Our HSE-representatives also carry out an extended mandatory HSE course. We have separate HSE representatives for each region with whom we have regular HSE inspection drills. We also have a monthly meeting between the management and the health and safety representative, where we discuss matters relating to HSE. This is an important forum for establishing a constructive dialogue between the conservation officer and the management.
All employees are covered by public health services in Norway, which offer high-quality services for the entire population. All employees are also covered by statutory occupational injury insurance. In addition to this, permanent employees are covered by additional health insurance, as well as extended occupational injury and accident insurance. All our employees are offered chiropractic treatment to prevent strain injuries. Participation is voluntary, free of charge and carried out during working hours. We have a strong focus on having fun as a team and have a tradition of getting together as a team for summer parties and Christmas parties.
The group is connected to the occupational health service, which also advises in matters dealing with HSE. All our permanent employees are offered a free annual health check and the occupational health service also carries out an annual status report related to occupational health. Among other things, exposure to dust, chemicals, vibration, noise and physical stress is mapped here. The aim of the health check is to give employees a status on their own health and early warning or prevention of serious illness. The employees can carry out the examination during their working hours, and the employer sends out a notice and information about the health examination annually. The results of the health examinations are confidential between doctor and staff, but we received aggregated data.
We had no fatalities or serious work-related injuries in 2022. We did not have any such cased in 2022 either. In 2022 we had one work-related injury, compared to eight work related injuries in 2021. This corresponds to two cases per 200,000 hours worked, compared to 15.3 cases per 200,000 hours in 2021.
The identified injury occurred with a subcontractor working at our site in 2022, while we had one incident in 2021 where a subcontractors carrying out a diving operation at one of our sites experienced a potentially serious incident. All incidents are followed up in our HSE monitoring system.
The total absence rate was 3.5% in 2022, an increase from 3% in 2021. We consider the change to be within normal fluctuations and have not identified any important factors behind the increase.
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A safe workplace is a place where people are happy and feel seen and included. To achieve this, we believe that it is important to have fun together. Having fun together is an important motto for Eide and a parameter that we measure every year in our employee surveys (on a scale from 1-5, where 5 is the highest score). In 2022 our score was 4.4, compared to our goal of 4.0 and 4.2 for 2021.
Eide does not discriminate based on sex, skin-color, religion or sexual orientation. We shall have diversity as a focus area when hiring apprentices, recruiting new employees, establishing management teams and appointing board positions. We have not discovered any incidents of discrimination in 2022.
We have a diverse workplace with employees from Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia and Syria in addition to our Norwegian employees which account for most of our employees. Our employees are mostly located in the communities where we operate, and all our staff are based in Norway.
At the end of the year, we had 77 employees and 68 of these are permanent positions. We also have nine temporary employees, out of which five where apprentices. Most of our activities are carried out by our own staff and we do not have large seasonal fluctuations in the work. During summer holiday, weekends and for some operational activities we hire substitute workers to assist us. Since these substitute workers have short contracts, they were not formally employed at year end and therefore not included in the head count reported. In total 16 substitute workers where active during 2022.
14 of our employees are women and 18% of our employees are women, compared to 16% in 2021. The Director of the Board of the group is a woman.
The average salary for all women in the group is 96% of the average salary for all men (average across all types of positions and roles). The main reason for the difference in average salary is that we have a high female share amongst our apprentices. The total remuneration ration was 3x the median salary for 2022 (total compensation of the highest paid individual over the median salary).
Annual salary adjustments are determined by the daily manager in consultation with the board and management. The group mainly uses fixed and hourly pay, and has very little variable pay, not even among our managers. All the permanent employees have the same bonus scheme, and the annual bonus is been determined at the discretion of the board based on the year’s result in the group.
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Local activities are important to ensure thriving communities, and in Eide the sport mentality and competitive instinct are both strong. We are therefore proud sponsors of local sports teams and cultural activities in the area where we operate our business. Winter sports in general and biathlon in particular have a special place in Hålandsdalen and in the Eide family. That is why we are also a proud sponsor of one of the world’s leading athletes, biathlete Marte Olsbu Røiseland.
We also believe in the importance of local suppliers and businesses. Therefore, we try to purchase most of what we need from local or regional suppliers and businesses when this is possible. Fish nets, cages, vessels, safety equipment, diving and ROV-services, logistics and processing are all carried out by local companies in the regions where we operate.
To ensure access to skilled workers in the communities we focus on education. Eide is an important employer in many communities and a certified company to apprenticeship in both the aquaculture profession and the automation profession. We normally have around six apprentices amongst our employees. We also have a close cooperation with the aquaculture education program of the local high school Fusa Vidaregåande skule.
We are certain that part of the solution for producing enough food for future generations lies in the sea, so an important focus area for us is to contribute to fact-based knowledge about sustainable aquaculture. This is an important inspiration behind our new visitor center Salmon Eye, which you can read more about on the following pages.
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The debate about the aquaculture industry and its impact on the environment and surrounding ecosystems is often in the media. In addition to the local impact our industry has, the global sustainability and climate debate is also increasing its focus on sustainable food production. The debate is complex, it follows political divides and is sometimes characterized by populism, ideology and economical incentives and interests. Science and fact-based knowledge are frequently challenged by myths, undocumented opinions, misleading information and alternative facts.
With our visitor center in Rosendal, Eide Fjordbruk wants to contribute to science and fact-based knowledge, and put local challenges, solutions and innovations in a global context, with a special attention to the environmental aspects of the production. The center and its content will be independent from Eide. This is ensured by having the content approved by a group of independent experts. The advisory group includes:
• Friede Andersen
• Jostein Bakke
• Konrad Sekkingstad
• Kenneth Bruvik
• Linda Nøstbakken
• Øystein Skaala
From the harbor in Rosendal the visitors will embark on a journey in our fully electric vessels Malm and Melder transporting the guests silently through the water to Salmon Eye outside Snilstveitøy.
With its unique design, Salmon Eye will be an icon and at the same time offer an exciting learning experience for the guests to the center. Salmon Eye aim to be a symbol for sustainable food production in the sea.
Here the visitors will both learn, engage actively and be able to provide their own ideas on how to make aquaculture even more sustainable in the future. Read more on www.salmoneye.no
Welcome!
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Focus on food safety is crucial to us. All our fish is certified according to the Global-GAP standard, an internationally recognized standard for food safety and traceability in aquaculture. We only deliver fish to processing facilities approved and certified by the Norwegian Food Safety authorities. These facilities also hold their own third-party certifications for food safety such as BRC and HACCP to manage food safety risks and implement measures to prevent and detect potential issues related to food safety.
We have also implemented strict routines and procedures to ensure safe raw materials and products in our own quality management system. We have not experienced any negative deviations or incidents in this regard in 2022 and none of our products has been recalled from the market. We have our own food safety manager responsible for handling food safety, as well as a community engagement manager who is in continuous dialog with our stakeholders.
The Norwegian directorate for public health recommends eating fish for dinner two to three times a week and that at least one of these meals is with fatty fish such as salmon or trout. Salmon and trout are easily digestible sources of protein, and naturally rich in fatty acids such as Omega-3’s, proteins and fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin D, selenium vitamin B12, vitamin A, iodine and anti-oxidants. Norwegian Atlantic salmon is also naturally free of Anisakis, a parasite that occur naturally in most wild caught species which require the products to be frozen or heated before consumed raw. With Norwegian salmon this is not required, a benefit that safes both time and energy.
Farmed salmon now contain slightly less Omega-3 fatty acids than wild salmon. This is due to plant-based ingredients without omega-3 added to the salmon feed. Still, farmed salmon is one of the best sources for Omega-3. A positive effect from having plant-based ingredients in the feed is that the content of toxins (dioxins and PCB’s) are lower than in wild caught fish, since these toxins accumulate in wild fish when they eat other marine species in the sea.
In our feed we use a combination of algae oil and fish oil which is cleaned for toxins such as dioxins and PCB’s. This enables us to increase the level of marine ingredients in our fish feed. This is better and more natural for the fish but is also increase the levels of Omega-3’s in our fish, without increasing the levels of PCB’s and dioxins. This way you don’t have to make compromises between safety and health benefits!
When you eat a salmon from Eide you can also be certain that the fish has never been treated with antibiotics, added hormones or GMO’s .
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All the salmon we produce is also Global GAP certified, a standard which include strict requirements on traceability and food safety, so that you can trust that our salmon is safe and healthy. We are also certified as a carbon neutral company and can offer certified carbon neutral salmon where all the carbon emissions in the value chain of the product are offset. We also produce and offer organic salmon, certified in Norway by Debio according to the EU regulations for organic farming. We work every day to improve. It is all about having skilled, passionate and local employees who all have the same goal: To produce salmon of the highest quality.
Our organic salmon was hatched in our own hatchery by the lake Skogseidvatnet. Here it is carefully nurtured and cared for by Frøydis and her team. After a short stay with Svein at our juvenile farm in the beautiful island community on Solund the fish is ready for the sea. At that time, our staff at our certified organic fish farm welcomes the fish, where it gets a lot of space and a special organic feed.
We produce our fjord trout in Osterfjorden. This fjord has excellent conditions for trout farming and has been the home for our trout production for many years. Here it is in good hands with site manager Stein Inge and his crew. Trout is a salmonid species with a lot in common with the Atlantic salmon, and many believe that it tastes even better than the salmon.
In addition to organic salmon and fjord trout we can offer certified carbon neutral salmon. All fish from Eide has a low carbon footprint, and you can read more about our measures and results to cut emissions in this report. For our carbon neutral salmon, we also offset all remaining emissions in the value chain of the product, including the feed which account for most of the emissions.
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Mamasea is here to lead this mind shift. Through radical transparency and a progressive approach, we will disrupt the industry, boost the imagination and open the vast possibilities of future proof aquaculture. Explore the goodness together with loved ones. Indulge and nourishes body and mind. Enjoy each moment to the fullest knowing know that when it comes from Mamasea, no compromises have been made.
We will INSPIRE a mind shift whereby the ocean is respected as the main place to produce next level delicious and sustainable food.
We will EDUCATE current and future generations of consumers and chefs and their discerning clientele on the process behind farming fresh, natural and sustainable seafood.
We will IMPROVE and set a new standard for future aquaculture, state of the art seafood... in the widest sense of the word
We at Eide have created Mamasea because we are committed to leading a movement that redefines how we farm sustainable, fresh and natural seafood. Next generation seafood.
The product portfolio of Mamasea will include a range of future proof seafood for both professional customers and for consumers, all made without compromises. From the sea. For the future. We will start with our own salmon. From 2023 we offer the first Mamasea products, limited amounts of Mamasea salmon products only for selected customers.
Want to see how we do it? A state-of-the-art facility is waiting for you! Visit us at Salmon Eye visitor center where you can see and experience for your self.