Marine Harvest, the world's largest salmon farmer and a beneficiary of The Global Demographic Tailwind as the world seeks ever more protein-based food. begins trading on the NYSE today (Tuesday):
Food producers are among a number of agricultural-related companies benefiting from a predicted rise in demand for food. Farmed fish, representing only 9% of the global fish production for human consumption in 1980, are now responsible for 47% of the stock, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Oslo-based farming giant, which produces more salmon than any other company in the world, has a market capitalization of 31.1 billion Norwegian kroner ($5.1 billion).