• Innovation in aquaculture

    The preferred provider of business strategy advisory services to the seafood industry

Innovation in Aquaculture

We generate competitiveness, growth and profitability for our clients, based on extensive knowledge, thorough analyses and documented methodology.

INAQ’s team of advisors represents more than 35 years of experience where the main focus has been consulting services for stakeholders in the value chain of the domestic and international seafood industry.

All members of INAQ’s team of consultants have formal qualifications at Master or PhD levels. The company also entertains several expert advisors and subcontractors.

We experience an increasing demand for our services internationally. Among our international engagements, we have assisted in mergers and acquisition processes, business development after acquisition.

INAQ has experienced profitable growth for over 10 years in an international seafood market driven by innovation, knowledge and technology.

ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

We experience an increasing demand for our services internationally. Among our international engagements, we have assisted in mergers and acquisition processes, business development after acquisition.

Production value chain

  • Genetics/Broodstock
  • Fry/Smolt
  • On-Growing
  • VAP
  • Sales/Distribution
  • Market

Inputs value chain

  • Equipment
  • Feed
  • Pharma-/Vaccines
  • Genetical programmes
  • Manpower/Competence
  • Financing
  • Licences

Service for start-ups

  • Preparations
  • Implementation
  • Initiate

Business assistance

  • Focus on fish health
  • Improvements
  • Control systems

Strategy advice

  • Strategy process management
  • Situation analysis
  • Corporate governance

Mergers & acquisitions

  • Services for the buyer
  • Services for the seller
  • Due Diligence
  • Valuations

R&D/Analyses

  • Planning
  • Implementing
  • Reporting

ADVICE TO THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

We have long experience working for large and small companies in Norway and internationally. INAQ assists its customers in solving challenges and realizing opportunities. Using INAQ's services should make a clear positive difference.

Our business is
founded on some core values

Knowledge of best practices

Knowledge of key decision makers and networks in the seafood industry

Wisdom and wisdom in putting together well-functioning teams, consisting of own and external expertise

Creativity to create good solutions for our customers

Power to carry out assignments in accordance with both customers' and their own expectations

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

Denmark - Canada - Greece - Spain - USA - Iceland - Faroe Islands - United Kingdom - Australia - UAE (Dubai)

Upcoming events

February 2020

Trondheim - Norway

INAQ launches new website

We are updating the content of our website, more information will be available in the near future.

2nd May 2020

Maybe at Hovde Gård, Hovdeveien 10, 7130 Brekstad

INAQ celebrates its 20th anniversary

Let’s celebrate 20th anniversary of INAQ together. We are updating the content of our website, more information will be available in the near future.

May 2020

Pier Center, 709 Iowa St, Sioux City, IA 51105, USA

INAQ is moving into new office space in the Pier Center

INAQ is moving into new office space in the Pier Center. We are updating the content of our website, more information will be available in the near future.

18th August 2020

Pier Center, 709 Iowa St, Sioux City, IA 51105, USA

Breakfast seminar during Norfishing in the Pier Center

Breakfast seminar during Norfishing in the Pier Center. We are updating the content of our website, more information will be available in the near future.

17th to 19th November 2020

Hovde Gård, Hovdeveien 10, 7130 Brekstad

INAQ organizes for the 8th time a course in “Practical board work” at Hovde Gård

INAQ organizes for the 8th time a course in “Practical board work” at Hovde Gård. INAQ organizes for the 8th time a course in “Practical board work” at Hovde Gård.INAQ organizes for the 8th time a course in “Practical board work” at Hovde Gård

Latest News

INAQ was selected by Philosofish and Andromeda Seafood to perform the biomass audit in connection with the transaction. The project was done in cooperation with Akvaplan-niva.

Pelagisk landindustri – hvorfor er det mer lønnsomt i utlandet?

Det er slående tall når norske pelagiske selskaper settes opp mot konkurrentene ute. De utenlandske selskapene har en gjennomsnittlig driftsmargin på 9,1 prosent, mens de norske bare oppnår 4,4 prosent. Frode Blakstad har i en artikkel i Norsk Fiskerinæring redegjort for denne ulikheten og fått tilsvar fra fem sentrale aktører.

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Island revurderer – åpner for mer lakseoppdrett

Det islandske havforskningsinstituttet Hafrannsóknastofnun har revurdert trusselnivået oppdrettsnæringen utgjør for villaksbestanden i Island. – Det var mye gammel metodikk som ble brukt i den forrige anbefalingen. INAQ ble bedt om å gi en second opinion og fant at det ble brukt for mye utdatert informasjon om villaksens vandringsmønster og oppdrettslaksens sannsynlighet for å gyte i… Read more »

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INAQ hired to verify biomass in Greece

The EU Commission was concerned that the mega-merger – Andromeda Seafood’s merger with Nireus Aquaculture and Selonda Aquaculture – could have led to higher prices for customers of Mediterranean farmed fish, as well as for bream and bass fry.

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References

Some of our clients in Norway and abroad

AQS AS

Activity:
Service vessels for aquaculture
Year:
2019 -
Role:
Chairman of the board

Bjørøya AS

Activity:
Improvement processes
Year:
2012 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

Customers (Middle East, Mediter- ranean, North America, Australia)

Activity:
Operational DD
Year:
2015 - 2019
Role:
Service for the buyer/seller

Emilsen Fisk AS

Activity:
Fish farming
Year:
2017 - 2018
Role:
Coordinating strategy process

Flatsetsund Engineering AS

Activity:
Fish welfare
Year:
2017 - 2019
Role:
Project manager

HavLine Gruppen AS

Activity:
Start-up of harvest vessel, Norwegian Gannet
Year:
2014 - 2018
Role:
Board member

Hepsø Notservice AS

Activity:
Fish net-service
Year:
2019
Role:
Service for the seller

Kverva Industrier AS

Activity:
Analysis service boats
Year:
2018
Role:
Project manager

Namdal Rensefisk AS

Activity:
Production of lumpfish
Year:
2015 - 2017
Role:
Chairman of the board

Norges Sildesalgslag

Activity:
Credit rating customers
Year:
2016
Role:
Project manager

Norwegian Seafood Research Fund

Activity:
Sea Lice Research
Year:
2017 - 2018
Role:
Project coordinator

Sekkingstad AS

Activity:
Value chain improvements
Year:
2005 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

Skagerak Salmon A/S (DK)

Activity:
VAP, salmon
Year:
2015
Role:
Service for the buyer

HavLine Gruppen AS

Activity:
Start-up of harvest vessel, Norwegian Gannet
Year:
2014 - 2018
Role:
Board member

Namdal Rensefisk AS

Activity:
Production of lumpfish
Year:
2015 - 2017
Role:
Chairman of the board

Bjørøya AS

Activity:
Improvement processes
Year:
2012 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

Sekkingstad AS

Activity:
Value chain improvements
Year:
2005 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

AQS AS

Activity:
Service vessels for aquaculture
Year:
2019 -
Role:
Chairman of the board

Bjørøya AS

Activity:
Improvement processes
Year:
2012 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

Emilsen Fisk AS

Activity:
Fish farming
Year:
2017 - 2018
Role:
Coordinating strategy process

Sekkingstad AS

Activity:
Value chain improvements
Year:
2005 -
Role:
Chairman of the board / project manager

Customers (Middle East, Mediter- ranean, North America, Australia)

Activity:
Operational DD
Year:
2015 - 2019
Role:
Service for the buyer/seller

Hepsø Notservice AS

Activity:
Fish net-service
Year:
2019
Role:
Service for the seller

Skagerak Salmon A/S (DK)

Activity:
VAP, salmon
Year:
2015
Role:
Service for the buyer

Flatsetsund Engineering AS

Activity:
Fish welfare
Year:
2017 - 2019
Role:
Project manager

Kverva Industrier AS

Activity:
Analysis service boats
Year:
2018
Role:
Project manager

Norges Sildesalgslag

Activity:
Credit rating customers
Year:
2016
Role:
Project manager

Norwegian Seafood Research Fund

Activity:
Sea Lice Research
Year:
2017 - 2018
Role:
Project coordinator