2021 Investor Report - EuroNext
Expansion of post-smolt production – www.BioFish.no
Land-based post-smolt production
Highlights – ready to scale up
Company Overview
- Land-based post-smolt production facility for annually capacity of 2,200 tons will be ready in 2022
- About NOK 164 million invested per year-end including post-smolt
- Turnover 18 mNOK with +6 million smolt produced until date
- Holds an aquaculture hatchery license for production of 5 million smolt and discharge license for 2,200 ton
- Established post-smolt producer, operating and producing smolt since 2016 with enhanced RAS – technology
- PEOPLE + RAS technology = Quality POST-SMOLT
RAS facilities nearly completed
Business Model
- BioFish has since 2018 delivered about 6 million smolts with weights in the range of 100 - 550 grams to several customers
- Applied for food-fish license. Experience through SkatteFUNN project.
- Proven business model historical production with healthy EBITDA margin
- Extension to 2.200 tons production capacity nearly completed with 85 percentage completion
- Long-term expansion plan for a total of 10,000-ton annual production on existing sites
- Vision of 50.000 tons production through expansion of network, partnership and growth opportunities through ESG business model
Financials
- 2021 Year of building RAS production facilities
- Results effected by building capex, delay in operational license, increased costs and lead - times
- Building biomass and inventory for future deliverers
- KEY Events 2021
- Successfully launched 150.5 million in an IPO and Listed on EuroNext Growth Oslo August 2021
- Entered into a long-term loan agreement of 60 mNOK
- Repaid
- Bond loan/ vendors and deleted pledges
- a lost arbitration effected results
Company Overview |
Income Statement BioFish Group |
Note |
2021.12.31 |
2020.12.31 |
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Operating revenue |
2 |
Unaudited 18 329 596 |
Audited 30 923 355 |
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Business Model |
Operational expenses Salaries and personnel expenses Depreciations Operating expenses |
3 |
11 400 405 2 122 646 400 000 25 484 667 |
19 372 696 4 297 085 422 490 24 092 271 |
- Lost arbitration |
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Operating profit/ loss |
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-7 155 072 |
6 831 084 |
- OPEX/ CAPEX decisions effects profit & loss |
| Financials |
Net finance |
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-37 514 |
1 939 541 |
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Ordinary result before tax |
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-7 192 586 |
8 770 625 |
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Tax expenses |
5 |
3 393 269 |
-1 956 012 |
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| Market |
Net profit |
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-3 799 317 |
6 814 613 |
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Company Overview |
Balance BioFish Group |
Note 2021.12.31 Unaudited |
2020.12.31 audited |
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Business Model |
Assets Non-current assets Intangible assets Fish licenses etc. |
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Property, plant and equipment 6 Non-current assets |
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148 606 210 124 464 121 148 606 210 124 464 121 |
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Current assets Inventory and biological assets |
15 182 177 |
8 945 000 |
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| Financials |
Short-term receivables Current assets |
8 223 179 23 405 356 |
8 140 425 17 085 425 |
Cash utilized to successfully |
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Cash and cash equivalents 4 |
49 558 927 |
477 389 |
completion of land-based facility in 2022 |
| Market |
Total current assets |
72 964 283 |
17 562 814 |
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| Outlook |
Total assets |
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221 570 493 142 026 935 |
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| Company |
Balance |
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| Overview |
BioFish Group |
Note |
2021.12.31 unaudited |
2020.12.31 audited |
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Equity and debt |
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Share capital and paid in capital |
1 |
151 340 000 |
8 840 000 |
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Retained earnings |
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8 327 008 |
12 126 325 |
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| Business |
Total equity |
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159 667 008 |
20 966 325 |
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| Model |
Debt |
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Deferred tax |
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0 |
3 393 269 |
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Bond loan |
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0 |
50 113 032 |
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Bank loan |
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59 000 000 |
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Total non-current debt |
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59 000 000 |
53 506 301 |
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| Financials |
Current debt |
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Accounts payable |
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2 006 396 |
43 239 148 |
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Annen kortsiktig gjeld |
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897 089 |
24 315 161 |
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Current debt |
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2 903 485 |
67 554 309 |
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| Market |
Total debt |
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61 903 485 121 060 610 |
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| Outlook |
Total equity and debt |
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221 570 493 142 026 935 |
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Notes to financial statements |
Company Overview |
The financial report has been prepared in accordance with Norwegian General Accepted Accounting Principles for small-medium-businesses. For more details, see Prospectus & Annual Financial statement |
| Business |
Profit and loss – notes 2,3 & 5 |
| Model |
Operating revenue is delivery of Atlantic Smolt to customers where operational expenses varies with timing of delivery. |
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The unforeseen biological factors are always present |
| Financials |
Balance sheet – notes 1, 4 & 6 |
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CAPEX consist building a complete land-based fish farm with enhanced RAS technology. |
Market Outlook |
Listed on EuroNext Growth Oslo August 2021 BioFish improved cash level with successfully IPO after balance sheet date. |
Market Outlook
- Currently the Norwegian production of smolt is about 400 million units, whereof about 25% is produced by independent smolt producers
- The salmon farmers are continuously increasing use of larger smolt (post-smolt), but currently making up only about 16% of the market
- Most existing facilities are not capable of producing large smolt due technology and lack of waste control/ management and high consumption of both water and electricity
- Use of larger smolt has the benefit of shorter production cycles in sea, reducing cost and allowing higher utilization of licenses (Maximal Allowed Biomass)
Company Overview
Background and Track Record
- BioFish acquired an on-land fish farming facility in Ljones from Green Salars bankruptcy estate
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Since the acquisition BioFish transformed the facility to a profitable recirculating aquaculture system (RAS)
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NOK 12m invested to restore the old facility with new RAS technology
- Signed land lease contract until 2054 with an option of extension to 2064
- Granted rights to produce up to 150 tons p.a.
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Produced volume: 100 tons
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BioFish raised NOK 50m in bond financing and NOK 10m of paid-in equity from shareholders
- Signed a five-year delivery contract with Engesund Fiskeoppdrett AS for up to 600,000 smolt p.a. until 2023
Produced volume: 100 tons
- Finalized a new 2,000m2 production facility and the installation process of four new modern grow-out tanks reached its final stage
- Total of NOK 130m invested in the facility after the acquisition in 2016
Produced volume: 150 tons
Granted a waste license for up to 2,200-tons pro annum.
Production: 150 tons
- New production license achieved from 1.5m to 5m smolt
- First listed land-based post-smolt production facility with +6 million produced smolt
- Finalize the 2,200-tons production facility in 2022
- Longer leadt ime on equipment, increased prices, complex building process
- Ambition to produce up to 50.000 ton within 2030 with additional network and potential ideal location – sites
Production: Building capacity for 2.200 tons
Proven Smolt Farming Technology –Ready to Scale-Up
- BioFish was established in 2016 after the acquisition of a on-land flow-through smolt farming facility
- Since the acquisition, BioFish has invested approx. NOK 200m in RAS-technology, biomass and equipment
- Discharge license for production of up to 2,200 tons smolt
- Upgraded license to 5 million smolt in 2021
- The existing RAS facility consists of RAS hatchery, a RAS start feeding facility, 3 RAS growth departments and a vaccination department
Ideally Located Along the Hardangerfjord
Access to both freshwater from nearby lake and saltwater from the fjord
Ideal water temperature of approx. 10-14°C in the Hardangerfjord saves electricity costs of regulating the water temperature and facilitates a high daily growth rate
Ideally Located Along the Hardangerfjord
Value Chain Salmon Farming
Production of Smolt/ Post-smolt
- A smolt is produced over a period of 6-12 months from fertilization of an egg to a mature smolt weighing 100-250 grams
- Post-smolt production (250-1,000 grams) has become more common in recent years, accounting for 9.1% of the smolt release in 2019 in terms of individuals
- The idea behind larger smolt is to shorten the time at sea, thus reducing exposure to sea lice, disease and better growth to harvesting-size for the salmon
- The total post smolt production cycle takes approximately 10-16 months
Value Chain Salmon Farming
- In autumn, broodstock are stripped for eggs, and ova inlay takes place between September and March
- The producer can speed up the growth of the juveniles with light manipulation which accelerates the smoltification process by up to 6 months
- Production Cycle Spring and autumn are the two main periods to release smolt in Norway. However, there are smolt being released in all twelve months of the year
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Increased land-based production will keep demand up every day since steering production environment for optimal fish wellfare and daily-growth
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Harvesting is spread evenly across the year, although most harvesting takes place in the last half of the year with current production regime
- The seawater production cycle lasts around 12-24 months, giving a total cycle length of on average about 3 years
Strong Development in Use of Large Smolt (>250 grams) New Production Model Post - Smolt
- From 2012 smolt companies could apply for an exemption to produce smolt up to 1 kg, the previous limit being 250 grams. This changed in June 2016 so that such permits could be granted continuously without compensation. Mr. Ole Fredrik Skulstad, was a pioneer in this quest to change the regulation.
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In the traditional production model, it is common to put the smolt in the sea when it is 100 – 150 grams. Further feeding the salmon in the sea to it reaches an ideal harvest weight of approx. 5 kg within 15-20 months. In the new production model, the smolt will have a max weight of 1 kg before being transported into the sea, where the salmon will reach its harvest weight within 8-10 months.
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By setting post-smolt of significantly larger size in the sea, the producers will have reduced exposure time to lice's and diseases, which is today some of the largest cost drivers in the industry.
- 2020 figures show about 60 million units over 250 grams, about 16% of the total smolt production and the trend is raising towards lager smolt.
- Estimate for smolt releases over 250 grams is expected to increase by an additional 5 million units, to a total of 65 million for 2021.
Strong Development in Use of Large Smolt (>250 grams) Release of Smolt above 250 grams of total release
Strong Development in Use of Large Smolt (>250 grams) Development in Average Smolt Size (Norway)
Ljones
The facility in Ljones has an ideal location close to a larger number of salmon farmers
- The facility is located at the west-coast of Norway. This is the area in the country with the highest farming density and limited possibilities to increase number of licenses.
- Due to the high farming density and warm water, this is one of the areas in Norway where the sea lice issues are the highest, hence importance of using more robust smolt is also the highest.
Smolt can be transported over large distances
From Ljones 30-40% of the Norwegian production is within one day transport (260 km)
and Growth Plans
A Existing 2,000 m2 RAS facility
B Existing hatchery and office space
Investment and Growth Plans
0 Completed growth -out tanks including all water filtering, pumps and technical room for complete facility
1 Grow -out tanks completed
2 New RAS facility replacing current flow through tanks
X Future opportunity for expansion for facility to up to 10,000 -ton p.a.
? Future opportunities, increase production by offer RAS – technology with corporating networks?
Building Land -based fish farm
• individual RAS departments to avoid RISKS - Lower CAPEX on technology by BioFish - Decreased energy cost
Investments to increase production capacity and improving waste management.
Thank you!
Expansion of post-smolt production
May 2022