Here is a selection of images from the event, which was attended by around 250 members of the company and the community, as well as dignitaries both domestic and international.
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Stig Joar Kroghli, general manager of the site, hailed the "fantastic quality" of both the facility and the eggs it has been producing -
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Håvard Bakke, business development director at SalmoBreed Bakke said one of the key advantages of the facility is that it enables Benchmark to provide salmon ova to customers, on demand, any week of the year
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The hatchery's workforce all live locally It's part of the reason why the facility has been so well received in the area
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Members of the community, of all ages, attended the opening -
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Visitors included a special delegation from China Benchmark has been working with Chinese partners on a shrimp genetics project and hopes to sell salmon eggs to China too in time
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Attendees were able to watch eggs being stripped from broodstock -
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Entertainment included some irreverent fish-themed songs, written for the occasion -
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Jan-Emil Johannessen, Benchmark's head of genetics "This facility allows us to supply customers with what they ask for: eggs with a high genetic content, produced under the highest biosecurity, 52 weeks a year".
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Professor Wang, of the Yellow Sea Research Institute, with one of the ceremonial guards at the event -
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The event was opened by Norway's Minister for Oil & Gas Kjell-Børge Freiberg -
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Customers left the meeting aboard Gamle Salten
