The financial results are so good that you almost don’t believe it is possible, said laksegründer Inge Berg in Nordlaks to the Current Business 13. January.
To the newspaper course of it he announced that the last year passed the one billion money in profit.
Large profit despite the fact – in a press release, informs the Nordlaks today that they permitterer 100 employees.
In the first place affected the people who work in filetfabrikken and the slaughterhouse in Stokmarknes. Nordlaks Products will keep the 20 people in work with the maintenance and upgrades until further notice.
Have no fish to harvest
Is it not a paradox to lay off when the profit in the previous year was so large?
It is a paradox, but this is not directly together. The background for that you have done it well, is that prices have been very high. We had had fish to slaughter also at this time here, when prices are extremely high, so it would have been positive.
the Problem now is that we don’t have fish to harvest, ” says commercial director Merete Kristiansen, who contends that it Nordlaks earn invested in the company and the industry as a whole.
Not a new phenomenon
Norway exported seafood for 91,6 billion in 2016. It is 23 per cent, or 17 billion more than in the record year of 2015.
Photo: Kallestad, Gorm / NTB scanpix
But how is it that a company with 420 employees and as of 2015 had a turnover of 2.2 billion suddenly doesn’t have fish to harvest?
Kristiansen explains that this is not a new phenomenon.
This hangs together with the fact that the fish farming industry is based on how much fish we at any time are allowed to have with the licences that we have.
Easily explained one can compare with having money in the bank, she explains:
- What the company reaps from time to time is “renta”, i.e. the fish grows.
- In North-Norway is the low temperatures during the winter, and then grows hardly fish.
- It means that there is something extra to harvest, and thus nothing to kill.
we Had cut down on fish now it means that we in the next place, that next year, smaller fish. For then we have in a way taken out of that which stands in the bank. You take out the money in the bank, you also get less interest, ” says Kristiansen.
This is a problem you see each year?
– Yes, mostly, and we have been forced to lay off earlier also. We have tried to speak up for that you can do it in a different way, and manage it differently. But as long as we have not reached through with it.
Need to hire in extra people in the fall
Merete Kristiansen points out that it is the regulations – together with the natural conditions for production in the North of Norway – that is the problem.
the Result is that for Nordlaks his person, then one-third of the harvest in the springtime, and two-thirds in the autumn. That means low production throughout the spring, with permitteringer in periods, and then double shift in the autumn.
– In the autumn we need to in addition hire the extra people. We would like to see that we could have had a smoother production, and put more fish in the spring. Then we had to be allowed to push any of the volume into the months where we have less growth.
Want to change the rules
Merete Kristiansen tells that it could be avoided permitteringer with a flexible biomassevurdering, which according to her is quite possible to get to.
– It will say that we are through the one year rolling average has a limit, but that in periods of the year can be above.
due to low sea water temperatures grow slowly in the winter, and it is thus too little raw material to keep the wheels in motion in the slaughterhouse and filetfabrikken to Nordlaks Products on the Kelty, which is dependent on purchasing raw material from farmers in the region, writes the company in a press release.
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