- It starts to get expensive – Hegnar Online

STRANDEBARM: – We see an increase in production cost in 2016. It starts to get expensive, ” says managing director in Lingalaks, Erlend Haugarvoll.

In the first half of 2016, the company had a total turnover of 208,4 million and an operating profit of almost nok 61 million.

Costs rising

– the Prices have gone very high up, but the expenses have risen a lot they and. Everything is become more expensive. Feed has become more expensive, input costs and other things. The industry has gone through a professionalisation. You need to have more systems now than before, which makes that the production cost rises significantly, ” says Haugarvoll.

He points out that production costs have increased by 10 million per. kilos in the last five to ten years, and says that they have a production cost pr. pounds well over 30 million today.

listed located close to a production cost of nok 35 million per. kilos, and we are where we are and, says Haugarvoll.

Usikkerhetsmomentet

the Boss in Lingalaks mean biological challenges is the largest risikomomentet in the industry.

– We have a lot of focus on diseases. It is the large usikkerhetsmomentet within the regime we have today. Lice, of course, are among the we have most focus on the per in the day, but in the long term – if one is to continue to grow – as will other illnesses can also be a challenge, believe Haugarvoll. He is a trained veterinarian and has a phd in fish health.

What diseases are you thinking of then?

– it is called Pancreas Disease, PD, and it turns out that when you grow, there will always come new diseases to which you do not know about, and which need to be addressed in new ways.

viral diseases in general, it turns out to be challenging and the most difficult to control, ” says Haugarvoll.

Avoid kinks

He believes the success of Norwegian fish farming industry is that it has developed the industry and the public sector at the same time.

You can see good regimes to produce, and the administration has managed to get this into the regulations. So that all must adhere to the rules that apply, and it seems to be working, ” says Haugarvoll, and continues;

– Look at the Norway vs. Chile, as has the public sector managed to follow up the farming industry very well. They have adapted to each other so that we have a sustainable regime, which has meant that production has grown from year to year. While in Chile received these knekkene where things go too far before they stop, and then they’ll get the kinks in his production.

Haugarvoll estimates that Lingalaks can increase the production by 10 per cent within the contracts they have today.

Lower risk profile

– the First generation of breeders say they built stone on stone. How will second and third generation differ from these?

So as we do so, we build a little stone on a stone now too. We continue to build on what we have, and fits on not to take too big leaps in the way, ” says Haugarvoll, before he adds;

You see those that are on the stock exchange, they can take large leaps in the way, but it has a great cliff also in the aftermath, history. Risk profile is lower than those listed.

Haugarvoll, who has grown up with farming, points out that the industry in recent years have been enormous, compared to what it once was.

You meet Erlend Haugarvoll, managing director and co-owner of Lingalaks in today’s episode of the Breeders on the Obi.no.

the Chief executive in Lingalaks, Erlend Haugarvoll. Photo: Eline Hvamstad.