Norwegian Aquaculture Center
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The Norwegian Aquaculture Center ( no, Norsk Havbrukssenter) is a visitor and development center for modern
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in Norway. The center is located to Toft in
Brønnøy Brønnøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre and commercial centre of the municipality is the town of Brønnøysund. A secondary centre is the village of Hommelstø. Ot ...
and cooperate with several companies in fish farming and related businesses.Official site
(retrieved 2.6.2010)
The center started operating in 2008 and administers a demonstration fish farm with access from land. The site includes a modern feeding platform, automated feeding system, control room, under water cameras,
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cages,
cod Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus '' Gadus'', belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus ''Gadus'' is commonly not call ...
cages and a little aquarium. The center is open to the public, visitors are kindergartens, schools, tourists, local people and people in the fish farming industry. There is several scientific projects ongoing at the center. Among them is the project Northern Cod, through Norwegian Center of Expertise Aquaculture and testing of a closed cage in cooperation with Teknologisk institutt and Plastsveis AS. Chairman of the company was until 2022
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, an earlier member of parliament and Norwegian Minister of Fishery.''Bjarne Mørk-Eidem'' (Stortinget)
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