Even people in the business mean that breeding fish on land in Denmark is not the way to go. This can be read in Thisted Dagblad 18/11. This time it are Martin Lauritsen and Ingemann Andersen from Hesselholdt Fisk A/S reporting. The first gave the direction of the firm away to the latter.

Hesseholdt Fisk Export A/S is one of Denmarks largest fishing export companies with departments in both Hanstholm and Skagen. The firm sells over a 95 million Euros and have 160 employees divided over the two departments.

Lauritsen and Andersen notice that the change of structure, which is occurring currently in the fishing fleet, as a result of new lines set out by the government, also will be applied to the fishing industry. Without giving dates, they mean that a large number of fish fillet productions in Denmark will have a short horizon from now on.

They think that fillet production will occur there where the raw fish is. That means East Europe, Norway and Sweden, where large amounts of fish easily can be accessed. But nevertheless they notice that transporting fish will not be the problem nowadays. Fish is being flown back and forth over large distances, and many new fish species find a way to the markets in Europe.

But the global concurrence doesn’t mean that fishing industry in Denmark will disappear. There will be fillet production left, but in smaller numbers, mean Lauritsen and Andersen. The industry will find its balance, it will happen via an easy and natural adoption.

“Breeding fish is the way to go, globally. But on a national level in Denmark – forget all about it!� say these two in Thisted Dagblad. We won’t be able to compete with Norway, which has large deep fjords, or Sweden and the other countries further east, they say.

According to Lauritsen and Andersen, the development lies within extending the trading of fish. Danish happen to be proper salesmen and do therefore have a force. A concurrance-minded fishing fleet will remain needed to supply fresh fish to the fresh-fish-market. There Hanstholm has all the opportunities to become ‘the port of Denmark’

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