Heading for sustainable fishing
Our quality work.
Sweden Pelagic is one of Sweden’s largest producers of fresh, frozen, marinated and spiced pelagic fish products. We offer products of the highest quality that meet or exceed our customers’ requirements, expectations and needs. We achieve this by letting a positive and forward-thinking quality culture permeate the entire organization.
Quality is extremely important to us. We work based on our customers’ expectations of product safety, with legal requirements as the basis. All fish we bring in has a complete traceability system, and we work with suppliers who have both the experience and the certifications we require.
We are certified according to the quality management system FSSC 22000, which is an international standard for safer and more efficient food production. For download: FSSC_22000.
Naturally, we are constantly working on improvements in quality. Please read more about our goals and approach in our Quality policy.
Our environmental and sustainability work.
We live and work by the sea. An environment that we cherish very much. Sweden Pelagic’s ambition is to show respect for both the internal and external environment in all areas. We strive to reduce the environmental impact of our operations, regarding energy and resource consumption, and we let environmental responsibility permeate all the decisions we make. Sweden Pelagic supports and contributes to sustainable fishing, and through responsible supplier management, recognized principles of human rights, the environment, and anti-corruption are respected. The salmon comes primarily from MSC-certified fishing in the North Sea. Our certificate can be downloaded here: MSC.
We are certified according to the environmental management system ISO 14001 that supports our efforts to become even better at reducing our emissions.
Read more about our environmental work in our Environmental policy.
Our treatment plant
The salmon industry generates a lot of wastewater in its process. This process water is usually fresh water that during the filleting process is mixed with the fat, blood and proteins from the salmon. Although there are no foreign substances in the process water, it must be purified of, among other things, oxygen-consuming organic materials, nitrogen and phosphorus before it is released into the sea.
Our purification process consists of many steps. Under each fillet machine, there are strainer bands for separating the impurities from the machine. The process water from the machines is routed in trough pipes to a pump pit from where the water is pumped to a central strainer band.
The filtered water first passes through a fine-mesh drum filter and is then pumped via a fine-mesh basket to a separate flotation plant. The separated filtrate is pumped to a purification container. The surface fat is scraped off and is sent to a biogas plant. After the flotation, the wastewater is led to a pumping station from where it is pumped to our new purification plant, which is scheduled to be completed in 2023/2024 and described below:
The process water goes to a container-based MBBR system with aeration and bio-carriers, then on to flocculation to finally end up in the sedimentation step, which also consists of a container. After sedimentation, the purified process water is released into the municipal sewer system and mixed with purified municipal wastewater for transport and discharge to the sea. This new investment is partially funded by support from the EU, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, and the European Water Resources Agency.
Our precision washing
In the autumn of 2025, we inaugurated our new thin-film washing line, co-financed with support from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the Aquaculture Fund. Each thin film produced at Sweden Pelagic is part of a circular system where the thin film is reused in production. Therefore, a thin-film washing line is essential for the business. The investment provides us with a more environmentally friendly, less resource-intensive, and more labor-friendly washing process, with the aim of increasing the reception and readiness capacity of Swedish fisheries.
