LaksAtlas is an interactive transparency dashboard for Norwegian salmon and trout aquaculture. It visualises live and historical fish health data — sea lice levels, disease outbreaks, escape events, and environmental indicators — sourced directly from Norwegian government APIs and official reports.
The goal is simple: take data that exists in government databases and make it readable, visual, and meaningful — for students, researchers, and anyone curious about the Norwegian salmon farming industry.
Beyond Norway, LaksAtlas also includes a Global Aquaculture Explorer built on FAO FishStatJ data covering 220 countries and over 4,000 species from 1950 to 2024. This places Norwegian aquaculture in a global context — showing how Norway compares to the world's largest producers, how production has shifted between species and regions over seven decades, and where aquaculture is growing fastest today.
LaksAtlas was built as a digital learning tool for students enrolled in Fish Physiology at Nord University. The course covers the biology and welfare of farmed fish, and sea lice, disease, and environmental stress are central topics.
Rather than reading static tables in a textbook, students can explore the actual farm-level data — see which farms are above the lice treatment threshold this week, where disease outbreaks are occurring, and how trends have developed year over year.
The Global Aquaculture Explorer adds a broader dimension: students can compare Norway's salmon production against aquaculture industries worldwide, explore which species dominate in different regions, and understand how global food production from water has grown from under one million tonnes in 1950 to over 130 million tonnes today.
The live map, health overview, historical comparisons, and global explorer are all designed with classroom discussion in mind — not as a professional monitoring tool.
All data used in LaksAtlas is sourced from publicly available databases and official reports — Norwegian government APIs and annual publications for the national view, and the FAO FishStatJ dataset for global production. No proprietary or commercially licensed data is used.
LaksAtlas visualises publicly available data and aims to present it faithfully. However, it is not a regulatory or monitoring tool and should not be used as one. Data may be delayed, incomplete, or contain errors that originate from the source databases.
This website has no commercial purpose and is built solely for
educational use in the context of Fish Physiology coursework at Nord University.
No data is sold, licensed, or used for commercial gain. All source data remains
the property of the respective government agencies and institutions.
If you notice incorrect information, outdated figures, or have any questions
about the content, please reach out directly.
LaksAtlas was designed and built by Miiro Virtanen as a student resource for the Fish Physiology course at Nord University. For corrections, questions, or feedback about the site or its data — please send an email.