Austevoll Seafood Asa Ord (ASTVF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Then it's a pleasure for me to invite you to Austevoll Seafood's 2Q presentation. I will first start by taking you through the highlights of our operations in the quarter. I will go more into the details segment by segment. Then I will give the floor to our CFO, Britt Katrina Drevenes and then I will end this session by giving our view on, the different segments we are operating in terms of the market. So starting up, I would say it's been a special quarter for us. In terms of salmon, we have performed well in, I would say, two out of, the three regions we are operating in. I would say all in all, we have had a good biological, performance, across all the three regions. Quite good slaughtering rate, good qualities, and also very low mortality during the year. Price achievements, spot prices has been more or less on the same level as last year, saying that in the West Coast Of Norway, we have had some, throat downgrades, which has also impact our price achievements, during this quarter. In terms of white fish, I would say another good quarter. In addition, I would say also that, the performance is a bit better than the financial figures, are showing because we are also entering into the third quarter with a higher inventory than we did same period, last year. So the underlying figures is a bit better in second quarter, and what they are showing. And then we have the pelagic segments, where we also announced in the first quarter presentation that there was both a stop in the fishery in Chile and also in Peru as a consequence of higher temperature and to a high percentage of juveniles in the catch. So in both regions, the seasons were stopped. So, in summary, I can say that, in Peru, the ligno, has caused that the fishery is still closed. And in Chile, the water tempera...