Our History
Stolt Sea Farm is part of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. the major global company with significant interests in mature and fast growing industrial and commercial sectors. Stolt-Nielsen S.A. is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs: SNI) employs more than 4,700 staff in 23 offices around the world.
2007
Stolt Sea Farm reaches 4,000 Tons of sale of turbot
2006
In line with the company’s acquisition and diversification policy the group acquires leading US caviar production company Sterling Caviar.
The company sells its tuna activities to concentrate on land cultivation species – turbot sole and sturgeon – which are difficult to farm, have long product on cycles and have growing markets with excellent prospects.
Stolt Sea Farm continues to produce sole and turbot with production centres in Australia, France and Portugal with headquarters in Lira Carnota, A Coruña, Spain.
Cape Vilán-Camariñas, in Spain, opens to become the new largest fish farm in the world. The facility focuses on marine flatfish and Stolt Sea Farm invests €17 million.
2004
Stolt-Nielsen SA 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.p>
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. The group begins to farm tuna with the acquisition of Australian Bluefin Pty Ltd.
1999
Stolt Sea Farm opens the largest turbot production farm in the world at the time in Lira (Carnota). The company’s production capacity for Prodemar turbot surpasses 2,000 tonnes.
Further investment is made into salmon farming; acquisitions are made in Chile and production begins in Scotland.
1990
Stolt Sea Farm concentrates on producing Prodemar turbot with the acquisition of a farm in Portugal and several in Galicia. Production capacity rises to 1,200 tonnes per year.
Began to produce salmon in the US, Canada and Norway through acquiring several farms. SSF also begins investigating the farming of halibut.
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.
1983
As part of the company’s diversification the group acquired marine hatcheries in Spain and France.
