About Villa Organic
In the early nineties, two teenage boys started catching cleanerfish for local salmon farmers. At the time they only did it for fun and the love for fishing, but as it turned out this was a brand new way to solve problems with keeping the salmon free for parasites. Better still, it was the only environmentally sound alternative. The boys soon realised the potential for a viable business idea, and in 1995 they founded Villa Leppefisk ANS.
At present the Villa Corporation is a fully integrated fishfarmer in Norway with control over the entire value chain. Villa Organic AS is the corporation locomotive. We buy the roe from external producers but have our own hatchery. We start-feed the juveniles and produce smolts. When nature tells the salamon and trout it`s time to leave the freshwater, we transport them to our ongrowing sites in the deep clean fjords of Norway. When the fish lived for one and a half year in saltwater, we transport them gently with our wellbout to our haresting plant where the fish is humanly harvested by our modern stunners. In the same factory we produce fillets. This is the sustainable way of harvest that reduce the need of packaging. Once the fish is packed our sales and logistics department make their best efforts to ensure the produckt is sold and transported to our customers around the world in a efficient and sustainable way.
Our vision is to be the natural and preferred choice of sustainable fish products.