BERGEN, Norway -- After a disastrous set of incidents in 2021 -- a year which saw a fire wipe out its Danish land-based facility -- recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire is thus far enjoying a largely under the radar 2022 marked by steady biomass growth at its main US plant, it said in its most recent update.

"In the very short term, our key focus is stability," chief financial officer Karl Oystein Oyehaug told listeners at last week's North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen, Norway. "With the same stability that we’ve had since last summer, we've been able to do what we consider the funnest part of the job: focus on improvements."

"This ability to focus on detail is very hard when we were running around putting out fires in the first half of 2021. But right now, we are there where we can really go on to the cost-cutting and fine-tuning of the systems to deliver better performance — this will deliver profitability."

According to the company’s most recent May update, Atlantic Sapphire saw 500 metric tons of biomass gain during the month, and harvested 140t. A similar-sized harvest is expected in June [...]