Our History

Stolt Sea Farm is a division of Stolt-Nielsen Limited, which is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs: SNI) and employs more than 5,000 staff in 33 offices around the world.

2009

  • Stolt Sea Farm begins farming sole in Anglet, France, with estimated production of 300 tonnes in 2010


2007

  • Annual turbot production reaches 4,000 tonnes


2006

  • Stolt Sea Farm acquires leading US caviar production company, Sterling Caviar LLC
  • The company divests its Marine Harvest holdings and its Australian tuna operations to concentrate on species cultivated on land – turbot, sole and sturgeon – that have strong growth prospects


2005

  • Stolt Sea Farm continues to produce sole, turbot and tuna with production centres in Australia, France and Portugal and with headquarters in Lira Carnota, La Coruña, Spain
  • Stolt Sea Farm opens the world’s largest fish farm in Cape Vilán-Camariñas, Spain, focusing on marine flatfish and representing an investment of €17 million


2004

  • Stolt-Nielsen S.A. and Nutreco Holding, B.V. agree to merge most of their marine cultivation and production activities for cod, sturgeon, halibut, salmon, tilapia and marine trout. The move leads to the creation of the world’s leading aquaculture company, Marine Harvest 
  • Research and development focuses on developing new products by investigating sole farming in Spain and cod in Norway. The company now has the widest range of marine species in production – cod, sturgeon, halibut, tuna, sole, turbot, salmon, tilapia and marine trout


2000

  • Specialist fish smoking and processing company La Couronne, in Belgium, becomes part of the Stolt group
  • Stolt Sea Farm acquires Australian Bluefin Pty Ltd. and commences tuna farming


1999

  • Stolt Sea Farm opens the largest turbot production farm in the world in Lira (Carnota). The company’s production capacity for Prodemar™ turbot surpasses 2,000 tonnes


1992-1998

  • Stolt Sea Farm concentrates on producing Prodemar™ turbot with the acquisition of one farm in Portugal and several in Galicia (Spain). Production capacity rises to 1,200 tonnes per year
  • Further investment is made into salmon farming; acquisitions are made in Chile and production begins in Scotland
  • Stolt Sea Farm establishes commercial units in the Far East


1983-1991

  • As part of the company’s diversification programme, the group acquired marine hatcheries in Spain and France
  • The company becomes the European leader for the production of clam and oyster seed, prawn postlarvae as well as turbot, gilthead sea bream and sea bass juveniles
  • Stolt Sea Farm begins to produce salmon in the US, Canada and Norway through the acquisition of several farms. In Norway SSF also begins producing turbot and investigating the farming of halibut. Sturgeon production begins in California


1972

  • Stolt Sea Farm A/S is established in Norway and soon becomes the leading supplier of juvenile salmon in the emerging salmon industry