industry seafood food processing founded 2007 2007 headquarters lesund norway key people arne m gster chairman tor vikenes ceo products wild caught atlantic herring atlantic mackerel and capelin production and distribution revenue nok 3 638 mill 2011 1 net income nok 61 mill 2011 1 total assets nok 2 491 mill 2011 1 total equity nok 1 029 mill 2011 1 number of employees 415 2011 1 parent austevoll seafood website www.norwaypelagic.no norway pelagic is a producer and exporter of pelagic fish such as atlantic herring atlantic mackerel and capelin caught in the seas close to norway . total raw material processed is on annual basis about 50 % of total landings of pelagic fish in norway processed for human consumption . norway pelagic asa is listed on the oslo stock exchange and its head office is in lesund norway . contents 1 operations 2 history and main events 3 references 4 external links operations edit norway pelagic has ownership interest in 15 production plants along the norwegian coast . fully controlled plants are located at sommar y l dingen bod liav g selje m l y 3 plants kalv g flor austevoll and karm y. partly controlled plants are modolv sj set as tr na 66 % sir fish as sirev g 60 % and north capelin honningsv g as honningsv g 50 % . in addition the company owns 25 % of the shares of shetland catch ltd shetland uk . the company main operations are production of roundfrosen and fillets of atlantic herring roundfrosen atlantic mackerel and capelin . other products are atlantic horse mackerel atlantic mackerel fillets and roe from atlantic herring and capelin . almost entire production is for export and the most important markets are japan russia ukraine and germany . in 2009 marine stewardship council certification was awarded to norway pelagic for its chain of custody standards . 2 the certified fisheries are norwegian spring spawning herring the north sea herring and the north east atlantic mackerel . this certification guarantees that all norway pelagic products of these species originate from sustainable fisheries . however in april 2012 the mackerel certification was suspended due to the quota conflict between norway eu and iceland faroe islands . 3 history and main events edit norway pelagic s plant in liav g norway pelagic asa was established in 2007 through a merger between domstein pelagic global fish bergen fiskeindustri koralfisk and bernt hansens eftf . one year later in june 2008 the company was listed on the oslo stock exchange . in 2009 norway pelagic acquired fryseriet in l dingen a producer of herring products and capelin . in 2010 norway pelagic also acquired emy fish and br dr myhre two plants in m l y specializing in herring fillet products . in july 2010 austevoll seafood asa bought domstein asa s shares and became the largest shareholder . in june 2011 a merger between austevoll fisk as and norway pelagic as was completed to effectively integrate austevoll s pelagic operations for human consumption into norway pelagic with compensation through a direct share placement . 4 in august 2011 the company head office was relocated from v gs y municipality to lesund . in july 2013 austevoll seafood bought the remaining shares of norway pelagic and the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of austevoll seafood . 5 references edit a b c d e norway pelagic asa annual report 2011 . retrieved march 20 2012 . triple certification for norwegian fisheries . msc . april 30 2009 . mackerel certificates suspended by certifiers . msc . april 2 2012 . completion of merger between austevoll fisk as and norway pelagic as . norway pelagic asa . june 29 2011 . austevoll seafood sikrer seg hele norway pelagic . dagens n ringsliv . 1 july 2013 . retrieved 11 may 2014 . external links edit official homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title norway pelagic & oldid 608034509 categories seafood companies of norway navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 11 may 2014 at 10 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view