When Salmon Farming Learned to See Beneath the Surface

Henrik Trengereid had a problem no dashboard could solve.

As project manager rolling out Mowi's sensing and analysis platform across sites on the Norwegian coast, he was helping farmers understand an operation whose most important activity happens where no one can see it.

Thousands of salmon swim inside a single seawater pen. Their appetite, growth, stress and health shift with water temperature, oxygen, currents, weather and biology. Farmers can watch the surface. They can point cameras underwater. But reading the behaviour of a living system that large, in real time, stayed out of reach.

The stakes cut both ways . . .

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