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Atlantic Sapphire raises salmon on land in giant indoor tanks and sells it to retailers and restaurants under its Bluehouse and Sapphire Salmon brands.
Atlantic Sapphire is a land-based salmon farmer. Instead of netting fish in ocean pens, it raises salmon indoors in huge tanks of carefully controlled fresh and salt water, then sells the fillets and whole fish to grocery chains, restaurants, and other customers under its Bluehouse and Sapphire Salmon brands.
The pitch is straightforward: ocean salmon farming has problems. Sea lice, disease, algae blooms, storms, and the constant worry about fish escaping into the wild. A warehouse full of tanks sidesteps all of that. The company can control temperature and water quality, keep predators out, and — this is the big selling point — put the farm close to the customer. Atlantic Sapphire built its main operation in Homestead, Florida, just outside Miami, which means fresh salmon can reach U.S. buyers in hours rather than flying in frozen fish from Chile or Norway. That location is also the company's biggest problem. Salmon are cold-water fish, and keeping them cool in steamy South Florida takes a lot of energy and complex water treatment. Atlantic Sapphire has been plagued by fish kills, equipment failures, and production that fell far short of its bold targets. Its finances have been strained repeatedly, and it had to raise money and restructure several times.
The company's shares, formerly Atlantic Sapphire on the Oslo exchange, no longer trade publicly today. The business has drawn major backing from investors and creditors, and its ownership now sits with those private backers rather than the public market. In short: a clever idea about moving salmon farming onto dry land, wrapped around one of the harder fish-farming challenges there is.
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