Municipality · Nordland · 1870

Sortland

14 registered sites for salmon and trout, operated by 6 companies. The farms are in production area 9 (Vestfjorden og Vesterålen), rated yellow (2026 assessment) and production area 10 (Andøya til Senja), rated yellow (2026 assessment).

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0 of 5Farms above the lice limit, week 39Norwegian Food Safety Authority · Week 39, 2026
0.0%Of lice counts above the limit, 2025201 counts · Norwegian Food Safety Authority
8Sea lice treatments, 2025Norwegian Food Safety Authority · 01 Oct 2026
0Open disease cases nowNorwegian Food Safety Authority · 01 Oct 2026
0Escapes reported, 2025Directorate of Fisheries · 01 Oct 2026
NOK 12.2 mFrom the Aquaculture Fund, 2025Directorate of Fisheries (Aquaculture Fund) · 30 Sep 2026

Capacity per company in the municipality

Sites' maximum allowed biomass (MAB) in tonnes, summed per operator · total 33,575 tonnes · 1 sites without a stated capacity · Source: Directorate of Fisheries · updated 01 Oct 2026

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Food Safety Authority, Directorate of Fisheries, Coastal Administration (AIS) · the same events as in the alerts

Farms in Sortland

Farm	Status week 39	Lice	MTB	Wellboat visits, 30 d
Innerbrokløysa Holmøy Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.31	3,120	0
Reinsnesøya Holmøy Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.21	5,500	0
Daljorda Holmøy Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.15	3,120	0
Kuneset Holmøy Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.09	3,120	0
Bremnesøya Holmøy Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.03	3,900	0
Blokken Sigerfjord Fisk AS	Not reported	unknown	unknown	0
Djupvik Akvakultur I Vesterålen AS	Not reported	unknown	1,280	0
Holand Holmøy Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	3,120	0
Holmen Holmøy Produkter AS	Not reported	unknown	1,560	28
Kinnholmen Holmøy Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	4,000	0
Litleøya Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	1,280	0
Sigerfjorden Sigerfjord Innovasjon Eiendom AS	Not reported	unknown	130	0
Trolløya SV Holmøy Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	3,120	0
Ytterhavna Sigerfjord Fisk AS	Not reported	unknown	325	0

Lice: adult female lice per fish, Week 39, 2026 (▲ above, ◆ near, ● below the limit, ○ unknown) · Food Safety Authority · Wellboat visits: 30 days to 12 Sep 2026, Coastal Administration (AIS) · MAB: allowed biomass in tonnes, Directorate of Fisheries

By year

Year	Farms reporting	Above limit	Treatments	Disease cases	Aquaculture Fund	Wild salmon caught
2026 (to date)	5	0.0%	9	0	unknown	unknown
2025	8	0.0%	8	3	NOK 12.2 m	93
2024	6	1.9%	15	0*	NOK 30.6 m	72
2023	6*	0.0%*	3*	unknown	NOK 12.9 m	51
2022	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 21.2 m	144
2021	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 8.1 m	119
2020	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 14.1 m	233
2019	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 2.8 m	69

* Partial year: lice counts from the Food Safety Authority from week 40 of 2023; disease register from 26 Nov 2024 (older cases only if still open then). The Aquaculture Fund publishes yearly around October–December. Wild salmon: reported catch in rivers with their mouth in the municipality (Statistics Norway). Unknown = no data, not zero.

Salmon rivers

Blokkenvassdraget178.43Z
Fiskfjordvassdraget178.42Z
Holmstadvassdraget185.4Z
Indre Straumfjordvassdraget185.43Z
Kjerringnesvassdraget178.51Z
Lahaugvassdraget185.441Z
Lakselva (Godfjorden)178.8Z
Oshaugvassdraget185.44Z
Osvollvassdraget178.52Z
Roksøyvassdraget178.62Z
Selnesvassdraget (Sortland)185.52Z
Sørdalselva178.54Z
Vikelva (Sortland)185.2Z

Reported wild salmon catch 2025: 93 salmon (192 kg).

Norwegian Environment Agency, Directorate of Fisheries · catch: Statistics Norway