Bakkafrost harvested 106,800 gutted weight tonnes of salmon last year
Volume included 23,300 tonnes from Scotland
Fish farmer Bakkafrost harvested 83,600 gutted weight tonnes of salmon in the Faroes last year and 23,200 gwt in Scotland, it said in a trading update.
Bakkafrost harvested 23,300 gwt in the Faroes during the fourth quarter of 2025, and 4,600 gwt in Scotland in the same period. Fish harvested in the Faroes had an average weight of 5.6 kilos, and those in Scotland had an average weight of 4.1 kilos.
The Scottish average weight was impacted by a low average of just 2.8 kilos in October, when the company had monthly mortality of 26.5% and 33.6% respectively at its Portree and Portree Outer farms, Skye, due to ongoing disease caused by Pasteurella bacteria, and chose to harvest out the sites.
£6.72m mortality costs
Average harvest weights for Bakkafrost Scotland in November and December were 6.0 and 5.8 kilos respectively.
Bakkafrost Scotland had incident-based mortality costs of DKK 58 million (£6.72m) in Q4, nearly half of which resulted from the Pasteurella outbreak at Portree, in Q3, the fish farmer said. There were no incident-based mortality costs in the Faroes.
The company stocked 5.3 million smolts in the Faores in Q4 and 18.7 million for the full year.
In Scotland, Bakkafrost stocked 2.2 million smolts in Q4 and 7.3 million for 2025. Bakkafrost Scotland’s freshwater division recorded incident-based mortality costs of DKK 2m, primarily due to culling at its Couldoran hatchery.
Bakkafrost’s fishmeal, oil, and feed division, Havsbrún, sourced 349,200 tonnes of raw material in 2025, including 39,800 tonnes in Q4. It sold 165,200 tonnes of feed in 2025, and 20,200 tonnes of fishmeal.
