![]() There were 4 people working at the site in Vestmanna, which is average per site (sometimes 3, sometimes 5, but always close to that). Each pen is initially inspected by a diver before fish are placed in it, a large effort in the cold Faroese waters. Only once in a while does a salmon escape, when the occasional hole forms in one of the nets – these are later repaired by hand. They each have a platform of floating plastic around the edges for workers to access the nets and the salmon. ![]() The pens are the shape of an inverted grain silo, with 10 meter cylindrical walls atop a 7 m depth a conical bottom. They are moved into progressively larger pens as they grow. Each site, with around 10 net pens, holds about 1 million fish in total during this growth process (at our visit, this amounted to 150,000 fish per pen). Nearby hatcheries raise them to around 250g before they are moved to the net pens, where they will grow to about 6 kg each before becoming dinner. Salmon spend 12-14 months in the net pens after moving there as fry, which is fast for the industry – credited to the nutrient-rich fast-flowing waters of the fjords. A farm worker hops off the boat to the net’s floating walkway to check the feeding lines and net attachments.
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