MATTILSYNET
Norwegian Food Safety Authority — approved fishery establishments
Establishment approval. Without it the product cannot be placed on the EU/EEA market.
Open the registerFour registers, four kinds of number
How to check a Norwegian seafood exporter
“Approved supplier” means three different things, and they are routinely confused. A company can be a registered exporter with the Norwegian Seafood Council, it can run an establishment approved by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, and it can hold a certificate from MSC, ASC or GLOBALG.A.P. Three registers, three kinds of number, and a company can appear in one without appearing in the other two.
What each number actually proves
The numbers look equally authoritative in a supplier presentation. They answer entirely different questions, and only one of them says anything about sustainability.
BRREG
Brønnøysund Register Centre — companies and accounts
That the company exists, who it is, how many people work there and what it turns over.
Open the registerMSC
MSC Supplier Directory
Chain of custody for wild-caught seafood. Numbers take the form MSC-C-#####.
Open the registerASC
ASC — Find a farm
Farm and chain of custody certificates for aquaculture. Numbers take the form ASC-C-#####.
Open the registerGLOBALGAP
GLOBALG.A.P. Database
GGN — thirteen digits beginning with 4, tied to a producer and a product.
Open the registerSEAFOOD COUNCIL
Norwegian Seafood Council — exporter registry
Who has paid the export levy. Listing is voluntary and the Council does not check the entries.
Open the registerThe market they export into
Norwegian seafood exports in 2025
A record in value. Quotas and catches were lower, at record prices for the most important wild-caught species, while salmon grew sharply in volume at a lower price.
NOK 181.5 billion
export value
+NOK 6.4 billion (+4%)
2.8 million tonnes
volume
Largest markets: Poland, the United States and China
73 %
of the value is aquaculture
54 percent of the volume
The ten largest species by value
| Species | Value 2025 | Against 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Salmon | 124.7 bn NOK | +2% |
| Cod | 12.7 bn NOK | +9% |
| Mackerel | 8.5 bn NOK | +2% |
| Trout | 7.4 bn NOK | +10% |
| Saithe | 4.3 bn NOK | +16% |
| Herring | 4.2 bn NOK | ±0% |
| Haddock | 2.3 bn NOK | +36% |
| Coldwater prawn | 1.8 bn NOK | +12% |
| Snow crab | 1.6 bn NOK | +127% |
| King crab | 1.2 bn NOK | +46% |
The quarters
- First quarter44.3 bn NOK +9.3%
- Second quarter40.9 bn NOK +2.1%
- Third quarter45.8 bn NOK +4%
- Fourth quarter50.6 bn NOK ±0%
Aquaculture accounted for 73 percent of export value and 54 percent of volume: 1.5 million tonnes worth NOK 133.4 billion, a volume increase of 13.1 percent.
Nine percent of exports went to the United States — the highest share since 1989.
What this overview does not prove
An overview that shows only what went well is a brochure. Here are the gaps, so you know how far the checking actually reaches.
- Certificate numbers are read out of the documents the exporters publish themselves. They have not been looked up one by one in the MSC, ASC and GLOBALG.A.P. databases — the links in the table go there, so you can run the lookup on the number that applies to your trade.
- A certificate covers a named site and a named product group for a period. The number says the document exists, not that it covers the goods you are buying.
- Approvals are tied to the exporter’s own company number through the Brønnøysund registers. Where the establishment sits in a sister company, the exporter shows zero approvals here even though the group holds many. Group membership is not inferred from similar names.
- The Seafood Council’s exporter registry is voluntary, and the Council does not check the entries. Species and markets are therefore the exporter’s own description.
- Financial figures are the most recent annual accounts on file. For some companies that is 2024, not 2025, and a few have none. The year is shown in the table.
- Market names are shown in English, as the Seafood Council publishes them. Translating a hundred country names would add a layer we could not check against the register itself.