SalMar ASA

Major Shareholding Notification • Jan 18, 2017

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

thecapitalgroup.com

18 January 2017

Oslo Bors AS (Oslo Stock Exchange) 011 47 22 41 65 90

SalMar ASA Attn: Company Secretary 11 47 22 63 52 00

Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS)

The Capital Group Companies - Disclosure of acquisition/disposition of large shareholdings Re: -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 17 January 2017, one of CGC's management company's disposed 66,137 shares, resulting in a shareholding of 5,609,089 shares, amounting to 4.95%. Please see the attached schedule A for transaction details.

Capital Research and Management Company	5,609,089	4.95%

CGC Total

4.95% 5,609,089 shares /

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.

Regards,

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Vivien Tan Compliance Specialist

Schedule A

SalMar ASA

Outstanding Shares

113,299,999

	Number of	ercentage of holdings					Number of	Percentage of shares
	shares before	before	Transaction				shares after	after
CRMC-managed mutual fund	transaction	ansactions	date	Currency	Price	Shares sold	transactions	transactions
Capital Income Builder	2,835,959	2.50%	A) M				2,835,959	2.50%
			$17 - Jan - 2017$		NOK 236.9297	(57, 495)	2,047,743	1.81%
SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc.	2,113,880	1.87%	17-Jan-2017	NOK	238.9973	(8,642)
American Funds Insurance Series	725,387	0.64%	$\frac{1}{2}$				725,387	0.64%
l otal	5.675.226	5.01%				(66, 137)	5,609,089	4.95%

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