Havfisk (formerly Aker Seafoods) is a

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Whitefish

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processing and sale

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. The company was listed on the

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and has its

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s in

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, Norway. The company operates 15

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s north of 62 degrees in Norway with 9% of the total concessions in the area. Aker Seafoods also owns and operates eleven processing plants with six in Norway and five in

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. The company has an integrated chain so two thirds of the processing capacity is served with self-fished fish. Among the companies that use Aker Seafoods' produce are

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, Pieters, Primex, Seachill,

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and Young’s Bluecrest. Aker Seafoods was created in 2005 as a merger between Norway Seafoods (a subsidiary of Aker), West Fish-Aarsæther and Nordic Sea Holding. The company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in May 2005. On August 30, 2010, the

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discovered illegal dumping of cod from Aker Seafoods' trawler Doggi. The inspection also exposed inappropriate keeping of logbooks.

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has decided that Aker cannot fish with the Doggi from 1 January 2011 to 30 April 2012. In 2013, Aker Seafoods changed the name of the company to Havfisk. Havfisk was acquired by

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in 2016.

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