Welcome to Villa - the natural choice of organic & sustainable seafood
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 of 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 of the entire value chain. Villa Organic AS is the corporation locomotive. We buy the roe from external producers, but have our own hatchery. We then start-feed the juveniles and produce smolts. When the nature tell the salmon and trout its time to leave the freshwater, we transport them to our ongrowing sites in deep, clean fjords of Norway. When the fish have lived for one and a half year in saltwater we transport them gently with our wellboat to our harvesting plant. There the fish is humanly harvested by our modern stunners. In the same factory we produce fillets. This is a sustainable way of harvest that reduce the need for packaging. Once the fish is packed our sales and logistics department make their best efforts to ensure the product 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 and organic fish products. We exclusively produce sustainable and organic salmon, cod and trout and our production is located on the northwest coast and in the north east part of Norway