SalMar ASA

Major Shareholding Notification • Aug 26, 2016

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. 333 South Hope Street Los Angeles, California 90071-1406

25 August 2016

Oslo Bors AS $ma@oslobors.no$ SalMar ASA ir@salmar.no Oslo VPS $vps@vps.no$

Re: The Capital Group Companies – Disclosure of acquisition of large shareholdings -SalMar ASA

Company Secretary:

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC"). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds. CRMC manages equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors, and Capital World Investors. CRMC in turn is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of five investment management companies ("CGII management companies"): Capital Guardian Trust Company, Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sárl and Capital International K.K. The CGII management companies primarily serve as investment managers to institutional clients. For a more complete description of our organization, please refer to our web site at www.capgroup.com.

Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of your company for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.

Pursuant to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act Section 3-2 and Regulations of 18 December 2002, we hereby disclose the following information.

On 24 August 2016, one or more of CGC's management company's acquired 118,885 shares, resulting in a shareholding of 5,772,000, amounting to 5.09%. Please see the attached schedule A for transaction details.

Capital Research and Management Company	5,772,000	5.09%
Capital Guardian Trust Company		$0.0\%$
Capital International, Inc.		$0.0\%$
Capital International Limited		$0.0\%$
Capital International Sàrl		$0.0\%$
Capital International K.K.		$0.0\%$

CGC Total

5,772,000 shares / 5.09%

For the purpose of this Report, the total voting rights figure of 113,299,999 shares was used to calculate the percentage of holdings. We believe this figure is current; however, if this number is not accurate, please contact us as soon as possible so we may make the necessary revisions.

Should you have questions or require additional information, please contact us at (213) 615-0469, or send a fax message to (213) 615-4056. Alternatively, you may contact us via e-mail at GRGroup@capgroup.com.

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Regards min || VCLAZ
Gina Martinez
Principal Compliance Specialist

Schedule A

SalMar ASA

Outstanding Shares

113,299,999

	shares before Number of	Prcentage of holdings before	Date of			Shares	Number of shares after	Percentage of shares after
Mutual Fund	transaction	ransactions	transactions	Currency	Price	purchased	transactions	transactions
Capital Income Builder	2,897,000	2.56%	$\frac{4}{2}$	$\frac{4}{2}$	N/A	$\frac{4}{2}$	2,897,000	2.56%
			24-Aug-2016	NOK	228.0283	19,489
SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc.	2,069,637	1.83%	24-Aug-2016	NOK	228.5331	43,494	2,158,488	1.91%
			24-Aug-2016	NOK	229.8000	25,868
			24-Aug-2016	NOK	228.0283	6,580
American Funds Insurance Series - Global Small Capitalization Fund	686,508	0.61%	24-Aug-2016	NOK	228.5331	14,688	716,512	0.63%
			24-Aug-2016	NOK	229.8000	8,736
Total	5,653,145	4.99%				118,855	5,772,000	5.09%