# Havfisk

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{{Short description|Norwegian seafood company}}
{{Infobox company 
| name = Havfisk ASA
| logo = Aker Seafoods Logo.png
| type = [Allmennaksjeselskap](/source/Allmennaksjeselskap)
| traded_as = 
| foundation = 2005
| location = [Ålesund](/source/%C3%85lesund), [Norway](/source/Norway)
| key_people = Yngve Myhre (CEO)
| area_served = [Norway](/source/Norway)
| industry = [Fishing](/source/Fishing_industry)
| products = [Seafood](/source/Seafood)
| revenue = {{profit}} [NOK](/source/Norwegian_krone) 2,316 million (2005)
| operating_income = [NOK](/source/Norwegian_krone) 181 million (2005)
| net_income = [NOK](/source/Norwegian_krone) 98 million (2005)
| num_employees = 1,267 (2005)
| parent = [Lerøy](/source/Ler%C3%B8y)
| subsid = 
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.havfisk.no}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Havfisk''' (formerly '''Aker Seafoods''') is a [Norwegian](/source/Norway) [Whitefish](/source/Whitefish_(fisheries_term)) [fishing](/source/fishing), [seafood](/source/seafood) processing and sale [company](/source/company). The company was listed on the [Oslo Stock Exchange](/source/Oslo_Stock_Exchange) and has its [headquarter](/source/headquarter)s in [Ålesund](/source/%C3%85lesund), Norway.

The company operates 15 [fishing trawler](/source/fishing_trawler)s north of [62 degrees](/source/62nd_parallel_north) in Norway with 9% of the total [concessions](/source/Concession_(contract)) in the area. Aker Seafoods also owns and operates eleven processing plants with six in Norway and five in [Denmark](/source/Denmark). The company has an integrated chain so two thirds of the processing capacity is served with self-fished fish. Among the companies that use Aker Seafoods' produce are [Findus](/source/Findus), [Nestlé](/source/Nestl%C3%A9), [Pieters](/source/Pieters), [Primex](/source/Primex), [Seachill](/source/Seachill), [Unilever](/source/Unilever) and [Young’s Bluecrest](/source/Young%E2%80%99s_Bluecrest).

Aker Seafoods was created in 2005 as a merger between Norway Seafoods (a subsidiary of Aker), West Fish-Aarsæther and Nordic Sea Holding. The company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in May 2005.

On August 30, 2010, the [Norwegian Coast Guard](/source/Norwegian_Coast_Guard) discovered illegal dumping of cod from Aker Seafoods' trawler Doggi. The inspection also exposed inappropriate keeping of logbooks. [Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries](/source/Norwegian_Directorate_of_Fisheries) has decided that Aker cannot fish with the Doggi from 1 January 2011 to 30 April 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?id=47914 |title=Fisheries withdraws Aker Seafoods' trawler the right to fish |access-date=2012-01-11 |archive-date=2015-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214080554/http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?id=47914 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2013, Aker Seafoods changed the name of the company to Havfisk.<ref>{{Cite web | last =  | first =  | title = Aker Seafoods skifter navn til Havfisk - Næringsliv - E24 | url = http://e24.no/naeringsliv/aker-seafoods-skifter-navn-til-havfisk/20356890 | publisher = E24 | date = 12 April 2013 | accessdate = 31 January 2014 | archive-date = 2 February 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140202194056/http://e24.no/naeringsliv/aker-seafoods-skifter-navn-til-havfisk/20356890 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Havfisk was acquired by [Lerøy](/source/Ler%C3%B8y) in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web  | last =  | first =  | title = Lerøy tar Havfisk av børs | url = http://ilaks.no/leroy-tar-havfisk-av-bors/ | publisher = iLaks | date = 7 November 2016 | accessdate = 30 November 2016 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Aker Group}}
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Category:Aker ASA
Category:Seafood companies of Norway
Category:Companies based in Ålesund Municipality
Category:Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
Category:Norwegian companies established in 2005
Category:Food and drink companies established in 2005
Category:Fishing companies
Category:Fish processing companies

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