Deja Vu: Bakkafrost Hit By Deadly Infectious Salmon Anaemia in the Faroes

“The Faroe Islands are particularly sensitive to issues concerning Infectious Salmon Anaemia after an epidemic nearly wiped out the entire salmon-farming industry in the early 2000s” @SeafoodSource @Tinganes @faroecoin @VisitFaroe @Visit_Faroe https://t.co/wbeAzxIxDA #Faroes pic.twitter.com/CMyc0wVBP9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 29, 2024

Intrafish reported (27 May 2024):

Bakkafrost’s shares fell due to the deadly news as investors remembered the financial bloodbath following the ISA outbreaks in the Faroes in 2008 and 2017:

Bakkafrost shares slide as ISA virus hit farming site @tradingview @Reuters https://t.co/K9yzMFS43U #ISA #Bakkafrost @NFdep @Tinganes @faroesenews @faroecoin @FaroesinLondon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2024

Seafood Source reported (28 May 2024):

Fish Farming Expert reported (27 May 2024):

ISA is rearing its ugly head once again in the Faroes. Intrafish reported in 2000:

Seafood Source reported in 2016:

Fish Farming Expert reported in 2017:

The economic and political importance of salmon farming in the Faroe Islands cannot be overstated. Bakkafrost, the largest salmon farming company in the Faroes, accounts for “around 50 percent of the nation’s total exports” and counts the Faroese Prime Minister as a former employee (Bakkafrost’s lawyer is also a former Member of Parliament and the Faroese Government’s chief of staff is a cousin of Bakkafrost’s CEO).

PM Johannesen and PM Kielsen @hiddenfjord. Closer relations.#greenland #faroeislands pic.twitter.com/zieET6uHak

— The Government of the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 (@Tinganes) March 17, 2016

“Faroese salmon has a very good reputation, so we welcome the fact that the Faroe Islands is tied to our brand” claims Hiddenfjord @SeafoodSource https://t.co/DTSCbXdzUB
Are you sure that Faroese salmon “has a very good reputation”? @USAmbDenmark @Tinganes @FaroesinLondon pic.twitter.com/jOwGLQjiwh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 30, 2024