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At Pelagia, sustainability is our business

Processing more than 1 300 000 tonnes of fish annually, our job is complex, yet easy. Making sure that not a gram goes to waste, but brought to use in the best way possible.

Our business model

How is circularity in the core of Pelagia’s business?
At Pelagia, use of raw materials across our business divisions is key to our model. The benefit of our various departments is their ability to optimally utilize these materials.
In practice, all activities are linked to optimize the best use of the raw material we purchase.
Pelagia ensures that no raw material goes to waste by cooperating and across our departments utilizing every gram of fish we purchase.
Pelagia Services handle byproducts from aquaculture and fish processing industry and uses the byproducts in our production as raw materials.

Pelagia Food

What does Pelagia Food do?
In our food factories we are producing fish products with a varying degree of processing. We are producing different products such as whole fish, fillets and roe to name a few.
Food

In processing, the fish is packed whole round, filleted and frozen.

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Processing

Food products include whole round fish, fillets, flaps, pieces, roe to name some.

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Products
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Raw material

Byproducts from food are sent to Pelagia's Feed division.

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Byproducts
What happens to the byproducts?
In our food factories, production of fish products results in byproducts alongside the finished products. The byproducts are sent to our feed factories to be used as a raw material in the production, ensuring nothing goes to waste.
Pelagia Food processes solely wildcaught fish

Pelagia Feed

Pelagia Feed can be divided to two types of production, we call these the white and the red production lines.

Production line White

What does the white production line make?
The white production line makes fish meal, fish oil and fish protein concentrate from both wild caught fish not suitable for human consumption and byproducts from fish processing.
How can you use the products?
The fish meal, fish oil and fish protein concentrate are widely used as a feed ingredient for fish farming or agriculture.
Feed
White

Co-products from Feed are sent to Pelagia Health

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Co-products
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Byproducts
from Food
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Raw material
(wildcaught)

Feed White makes fish oil and fish protein concentrates out of wildcaught fish.

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Processing

Fish feed

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Products
The White production line makes feed ingredients based on wildcaught fish

Production line Red

What does Pelagia’s red production line make?
The red production line creates fish meal, fish oil and fishprotein concentrate from raw material from fish processing industry and aquaculture. The finished products are used as ingredients in different food production systems.
The raw material that’s not suitable for feed ingredients, is used in the production of technical oil, carbon neutral fuel oil or to produce biogas.
Feed
Red
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Byproducts
from Food
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Raw material
(farmed)

Feed Red makes fish meal, fish oil and fish protein concentrates.

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Processing

Animal feed

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Products

Co-products from Feed are sent to Pelagia Health

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Co-products
The Red production line makes feed ingredients based on residual raw material from fish processing industry and aquaculture
How do you collect the raw material?
The raw material are either collected from the aquaculture facilities using Pelagia own vessels or from fish processing facilities using trucks.

Pelagia Health

What does Pelagia Health do?
At the Health division, we create high-potency nutritional ingredients from fishery by-products , specializing in Omega-3 concentrates, under the brand name Epax®.
Our ingredients are trusted by leading consumer brands world-wide, and the finished product, premium quality dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals, are sold to people everywhere.
We create high-potency nutritional ingredients from fishery by-products
Health

Raw materials

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Raw material
(wild-caught)

Pelagia's other divisions supply Health with high quality raw materials from their production

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Co-products
from Feed

Extracting healthy Omega-3, EPA and DHA oils

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Processing

The products are high quality oils that are used in health supplements.

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Products
What happens to the left-overs from the production?
At Health, there are no left-overs. The fractions which cannot be used for human nutrition are utilized for animal feed, biogas or fertilizer at local farms. The circularity for our biomaterials is 97%, and this compares to a global average circularity (for all industries) of just 7.2%*.
And with that usage cycle completed, 100% of the fish has been utilized.
*https://www.circularity-gap.world/2024