Marine Farms ASA is a Norwegian

Norway

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 fish farming company. Based in Bergen

Bergen

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, it operates salmon

Salmon

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 farms in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 and Spain

Spain

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, through the subsidiaries Lakeland and Culmarex, respectively. It also holds investments in Belize

Belize

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 and Vietnam

Vietnam

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. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange

Oslo Stock Exchange

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The company was founded in 1976 as Lax AS by Bjørn Myrseth

Bjørn Myrseth

Bjørn Myrseth is a Norwegian biologist and businessperson, and since 1987 chief executive officer of Marine Farms. Myrseth was educated in fishery biology from the University of Bergen, and was a co-founder of Stolt Sea Farms in 1972, where he was CEO until 1987. He then sold his stake in the...

, for his ownership in Stolt Sea Farm. The Stolt shares were sold in 1987, and the company started making its own investments in fish farming.