Norway salmon farming moves to cleaner waters - indoors

Fredrikstad

HUNDREDS of thousands of salmon swim against the current in south-east Norway - in massive indoor tanks away from the nearest river as the controversial industry increasingly embraces greener land-based facilities.

Norway's first land-based salmon farm opened in 2019. The fish live in two gigantic pools inside an inconspicuous industrial building in Fredrikstad owned by a company that plans to raise salmon in similar settings even further afield, in the United States.