A new, one-of-a-kind aquaculture operation in Norway is developing farming techniques for a new species, and Buena Vista Seafood is seeing success in the U.S. with imported fillets of the fish.
The spotted wolffish, Anarchichas minor, is a species being developed under the name “Arcticas” by Halsa, Norway-based Aminor. The bottom-dwelling species historically has been caught as bycatch of other fisheries, and according to Aminor, it is uniquely suited to being raised via aquaculture.
“[We] have considered this as maybe the most-suitable new fish species in Norwegian aquaculture, when it comes to sustainability and all the main criteria,” Aminor Sales and Marketing Director Jan Brekke Jenssen told SeafoodSource…
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