Municipality · Nordland · 1865

Vågan

12 registered sites for salmon and trout, operated by 7 companies. The farms are in production area 9 (Vestfjorden og Vesterålen), rated yellow (2026 assessment).

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0 of 3Farms above the lice limit, week 39Norwegian Food Safety Authority · Week 39, 2026
1.0%Of lice counts above the limit, 202599 counts · Norwegian Food Safety Authority
7Sea 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 10.1 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 26,158 tonnes · 3 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 Vågan

Farm	Status week 39	Lice	MTB
Alterosen Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Near the limit	0.46	78
Kalvhodet Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Below the limit	0.04	4,990
Våtvika Egil Kristoffersen & Sønner AS	Below the limit	0.00	3,120
Brenna Polarsmolt AS	Not reported	unknown	unknown
Framnes Polarsmolt AS	Not reported	unknown	unknown
Landfastøya Lofoten Salmon AS	Not reported	unknown	3,100
Molgavlen Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	3,900
Oddværsætra Ellingsen Seafood AS	Not reported	unknown	1,560
Raven Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	4,680
Storfjell Nordlaks Havbruk AS	Not reported	unknown	4,680
Strømnes Skole Laukvik Skole	Not reported	unknown	unknown
Ørsnes Lofoten Akvaponi A/s	Not reported	unknown	50

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)	4	2.1%	6	0	unknown	unknown
2025	5	1.0%	7	0	NOK 10.1 m	2
2024	6	0.0%	9	0*	NOK 19.3 m	7
2023	3*	0.0%*	2*	unknown	NOK 5.3 m	13
2022	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 15.3 m	13
2021	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 3.8 m	13
2020	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 11.3 m	29
2019	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	NOK 1.2 m	0

* 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

Vestpollvassdraget (Vågan)179.332Z

Reported wild salmon catch 2025: 2 salmon (5 kg).

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