Hovdenakken

Site 13337 · Lebesby municipality · Production area 12, Vest-Finnmark

Below the lice limit, week 39Operated by Salmar Oppdrett AS · group SalMar

0.00Adult female lice per fishLimit 0.50 · below the limitWeek 39, 2026 · Norwegian Food Safety Authority · updated 01 Oct 2026

0Weeks above the limit in 2026of 19 weeks with a countCalculated by the Salmon Ledger · Norwegian Food Safety Authority · updated 01 Oct 2026

2Lice treatments in 2026Latest: Medicinal feed, week 36, 20262026 · Norwegian Food Safety Authority · updated 01 Oct 2026

0Active disease casesNone recordedRegister since 26 Nov 2024 · Norwegian Food Safety Authority · updated 01 Oct 2026

3Wellboat visits in 2026by 2 different vessels · latest 07 Jul 2026Derived from AIS · Norwegian Coastal Administration (AIS) · updated 01 Oct 2026

1Escapes reported222 salmon, October 2021Since 2006 · Directorate of Fisheries · updated 01 Oct 2026

Sea lice against the limit

Weekly average of adult female lice per fish, as reported by the company. For this site the limit is 0.2 in weeks 21–26 and 0.5 for the rest of the year. Hatched weeks have no count and count neither as above nor below.

2026

Source: Norwegian Food Safety Authority, weekly lice counts reported by the companies · Limit: Regulation on sea lice control § 8 · Updated 01 Oct 2026

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Adult female lice per fish per week, 2026
Week	Adult female lice per fish	Lice limit	Status
1	unknown	0.5	Not reported
2	unknown	0.5	Not reported
3	unknown	0.5	Not reported
4	unknown	0.5	Not reported
5	unknown	0.5	Not reported
6	unknown	0.5	Not reported
7	unknown	0.5	Not reported
8	unknown	0.5	Not reported
9	unknown	0.5	Not reported
10	unknown	0.5	Not reported
11	unknown	0.5	Not reported
12	unknown	0.5	Not reported
13	unknown	0.5	Not reported
14	unknown	0.5	Not reported
15	unknown	0.5	Not reported
16	unknown	0.5	Not reported
17	unknown	0.5	Not reported
18	unknown	0.5	Not reported
19	unknown	0.5	Not reported
20	unknown	0.5	Not reported
21	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
22	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
23	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
24	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
25	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
26	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
27	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
28	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
29	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
30	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
31	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
32	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
33	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
34	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
35	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
36	0.01	0.5	Below the limit
37	0.03	0.5	Below the limit
38	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
39	0.00	0.5	Below the limit

Earlier years

20250 of 36 weeks with a count above the limit

Source: Norwegian Food Safety Authority, weekly lice counts reported by the companies · Limit: Regulation on sea lice control § 8 · Updated 01 Oct 2026

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Adult female lice per fish per week, 2025
Week	Adult female lice per fish	Lice limit	Status
1	0.14	0.5	Below the limit
2	0.08	0.5	Below the limit
3	0.14	0.5	Below the limit
4	0.11	0.5	Below the limit
5	0.07	0.5	Below the limit
6	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
7	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
8	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
9	0.07	0.5	Below the limit
10	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
11	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
12	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
13	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
14	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
15	0.11	0.5	Below the limit
16	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
17	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
18	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
19	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
20	0.08	0.5	Below the limit
21	0.13	0.2	Below the limit
22	0.07	0.2	Below the limit
23	0.08	0.2	Below the limit
24	0.07	0.2	Below the limit
25	0.10	0.2	Below the limit
26	0.11	0.2	Below the limit
27	0.07	0.5	Below the limit
28	0.05	0.5	Below the limit
29	0.06	0.5	Below the limit
30	0.06	0.5	Below the limit
31	0.03	0.5	Below the limit
32	0.09	0.5	Below the limit
33	0.11	0.5	Below the limit
34	0.14	0.5	Below the limit
35	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
36	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
37	0.15	0.5	Below the limit
38	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
39	0.16	0.5	Below the limit
40	0.16	0.5	Below the limit
41	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
42	unknown	0.5	Reported without a count
43	unknown	0.5	Not reported
44	unknown	0.5	Not reported
45	unknown	0.5	Not reported
46	unknown	0.5	Not reported
47	unknown	0.5	Not reported
48	unknown	0.5	Not reported
49	unknown	0.5	Not reported
50	unknown	0.5	Not reported
51	unknown	0.5	Not reported
52	unknown	0.5	Not reported

20240 of 32 weeks with a count above the limit

Source: Norwegian Food Safety Authority, weekly lice counts reported by the companies · Limit: Regulation on sea lice control § 8 · Updated 01 Oct 2026

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Adult female lice per fish per week, 2024
Week	Adult female lice per fish	Lice limit	Status
1	unknown	0.5	Not reported
2	unknown	0.5	Not reported
3	unknown	0.5	Not reported
4	unknown	0.5	Not reported
5	unknown	0.5	Not reported
6	unknown	0.5	Not reported
7	unknown	0.5	Not reported
8	unknown	0.5	Not reported
9	unknown	0.5	Not reported
10	unknown	0.5	Not reported
11	unknown	0.5	Not reported
12	unknown	0.5	Not reported
13	unknown	0.5	Not reported
14	unknown	0.5	Not reported
15	unknown	0.5	Not reported
16	unknown	0.5	Not reported
17	unknown	0.5	Not reported
18	unknown	0.5	Not reported
19	unknown	0.5	Not reported
20	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
21	unknown	0.2	Reported without a count
22	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
23	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
24	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
25	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
26	0.00	0.2	Below the limit
27	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
28	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
29	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
30	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
31	0.00	0.5	Below the limit
32	0.02	0.5	Below the limit
33	0.04	0.5	Below the limit
34	0.03	0.5	Below the limit
35	0.01	0.5	Below the limit
36	0.02	0.5	Below the limit
37	0.01	0.5	Below the limit
38	0.06	0.5	Below the limit
39	0.05	0.5	Below the limit
40	0.05	0.5	Below the limit
41	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
42	0.07	0.5	Below the limit
43	0.11	0.5	Below the limit
44	0.11	0.5	Below the limit
45	0.07	0.5	Below the limit
46	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
47	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
48	0.14	0.5	Below the limit
49	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
50	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
51	0.08	0.5	Below the limit
52	0.10	0.5	Below the limit

20230 of 6 weeks with a count above the limit (data from week 40)

Source: Norwegian Food Safety Authority, weekly lice counts reported by the companies · Limit: Regulation on sea lice control § 8 · Updated 01 Oct 2026

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Adult female lice per fish per week, 2023
Week	Adult female lice per fish	Lice limit	Status
40	0.08	0.5	Below the limit
41	0.13	0.5	Below the limit
42	0.10	0.5	Below the limit
43	0.17	0.5	Below the limit
44	0.12	0.5	Below the limit
45	0.18	0.5	Below the limit
46	unknown	0.5	Not reported
47	unknown	0.5	Not reported
48	unknown	0.5	Not reported
49	unknown	0.5	Not reported
50	unknown	0.5	Not reported
51	unknown	0.5	Not reported
52	unknown	0.5	Not reported

Treatments

Norwegian Food Safety Authority

Week 36, 2026
Medicinal feedEmamectin benzoat
Week 38, 2025
Mechanical delousing4 pens
Week 35, 2025
Mechanical delousing3 pens
Week 37, 2024
Medicinal feedWhole site · Emamectin benzoat

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Week 42, 2023
Other treatment3 pens · Optiflush

Disease

Norwegian Food Safety Authority

No cases in the Food Safety Authority's register of notifiable diseases (since 26 Nov 2024).

Escapes

Directorate of Fisheries

22 Oct 2021
222 salmon escapedCause: Ikke kartlagt enda nøyaktig hva grunnen kan være, foreløpig mistanke · recaptured 1 · Directorate of Fisheries

Wellboat visits

3 visits in 2026

Visits are derived by us from the Coastal Administration's AIS positions: a fish carrier stationary within 500 metres of the farm for at least 30 minutes. The AIS archive lags about 17 days. A visit is not proof of infection.

Arrival	Vessel	Previous farm (14 days)	Duration
07 Jul 2026	Ronja Viking	no other farm	1 h 14 min
25 May 2026	Ronja Aurora	Kråkeberget	1 h 15 min
19 May 2026	Ronja Aurora	Kvitelv	1 h 50 min
22 Oct 2025	Ronja Vita	Klubben	2 h 45 min
21 Oct 2025	Froy Odin	Kråkeberget	14 h 18 min
15 Oct 2025	Ro Senja	Mollvika	1 h 29 min
07 Oct 2025	Froy Odin	Øyra	1 h 40 min
20 Sep 2025	Froy Odin	Mollvika	17 h 24 min
18 Sep 2025	Froy Odin	Mollvika	43 h 32 min
31 Aug 2025	Froy Odin	Bondejorda	14 h 49 min
29 Aug 2025	Froy Odin	Bondejorda	33 h 8 min
25 Aug 2025	Ro Fortune	Kraken	2 h 35 min

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Arrival	Vessel	Previous farm (14 days)	Duration
22 Jul 2025	Ro Senja	Store Kobbøy	2 h 18 min
23 May 2024	Ronja Vita	Småvær	5 h 2 min
19 May 2024	Ro Chief	Svindalen I	1 h 31 min
12 May 2024	Ronja Explorer	Lismåsøy	2 h 51 min

Source: Norwegian Coastal Administration (AIS) · calculated by the Salmon Ledger · updated 01 Oct 2026

Licences

Site MAB: 6,000 tonnes

Licence	Type	Capacity	Holder
F LB 0010	Kommersiell / matfisk - (5% mtb økning)Salmon, Rainbow trout, Trout	1,073 t	Salmar Oppdrett AS
F LB 0011	Kommersiell / matfisk - (5% mtb økning)Salmon, Rainbow trout, Trout	5,043 t	Salmar Oppdrett AS

Source: Directorate of Fisheries, aquaculture register · updated 01 Oct 2026