Northern Fish describes itself as a Portuguese company with Norwegian capital, started in 2013 as the internationalisation project of RORO Invest AS of Skjervøy, in Arctic Norway; its main production unit, Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr AS, splits, salts and dries cod and other whitefish. In Portugal, Northern Fish Iberia – Forsöl, Lda (NIF 510576990) sorts, grades and packs the fish in its own building in the Mota industrial zone at Gafanha da Encarnação (Ílhavo, Aveiro), opened in 2018, and sells under the Northern Fish and Dom Bacalhau brands.
Northern Fish Iberia – Forsöl, Lda was incorporated on 20 February 2013 as a private limited company with €300,000 of share capital. Its registered object is the trade, distribution and production of bacalhau, “namely salted and desalted”, under the activity codes for fish wholesale (CAE 46381) and the preparation of fishery products (CAE 10201). Business registers list the name as “Northern Fish Iberia - Fors L Lda”; the company’s Dom Bacalhau website uses Forsöl and names it as the owner of that trademark. The company is based at Lot H37 on Rua n.º 8 in the Mota industrial zone of Gafanha da Encarnação, where it says it opened its own purpose-built building in 2018 after heavy investment. It says the building produces almost half of the energy it uses and has LED lighting throughout.
The Portuguese site is the market end of a Norwegian supply chain. Northern Fish says its plants in Arctic Norway buy fish directly from coastal vessels and split, salt and dry it year-round, while the Portuguese facility sorts, grades and custom-packs it to each client’s specification. Industrial buyers can have green-salted or dried salted cod delivered from Norway straight to their premises on DDP terms, or from the Portuguese warehouse. The main production unit, Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr AS, reported revenue of NOK 92.1 million and a net profit of NOK 6.2 million for 2025, with 15 employees. It shares its Havnegata 38 address and its management with RORO Invest AS, which Northern Fish names as its parent: Roy Arne Pettersen is general manager and chair of both, with Robert Hermann Pettersen and Kari Mette Iversen on both boards. Besides Portugal, Northern Fish tailors salted cod for Spain, France, Italy and Greece, and sells salted saithe, haddock, tusk and ling for African and Caribbean cuisines, with Suriname, the French West Indies, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic among its markets.
Northern Fish is a Norwegian producer’s own route into the Portuguese market: sourcing, salting and drying stay in Arctic Norway, while sorting, grading and branded packing happen in Ílhavo, and its retail brand, Dom Bacalhau, is registered to the Portuguese company. Northern Fish presents both ends of the clipfish trade — the Arctic salting plant and the Portuguese packer — as one business, and the Norwegian companies are run by Roy Arne Pettersen and his son Robert Hermann. The Norwegian side may change hands: in June 2025 Framtid i Nord reported that Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr, whose main product is clipfish, was for sale. As of October 2026 the Norwegian business register still lists Roy Arne Pettersen as general manager and chair.
11 November 2025 — Kyst og Fjord features Roy Arne Pettersen and his son Robert Hermann Pettersen of Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr under the headline “We are competing each other to death on the cod price”.
18 June 2025 — Framtid i Nord reports that the family company Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr AS, owned by Robert Hermann Pettersen, is for sale “to the right buyer at the right price”.
10 July 2024 — Kyst og Fjord reports on the company’s 2023 results under the headline “Did fine in 2023, and the son inherited the business on Christmas Eve”.
2018 — Northern Fish opens its own building in Gafanha da Encarnação.
Sources: nfiberia.com (home, Quem Somos, Produtos para Indústria); drysaltedcod.nfiberia.com (home, About NFi); dombacalhau.pt; racius.com and nif.pt (NIF 510576990); Brønnøysund Register Centre, data.brreg.no (RORO Invest AS, org. no. 985466262, and Skjervøy Fisk og Skalldyr AS, org. no. 913243536: register entries, roles and annual accounts); Framtid i Nord (18 June 2025) and Kyst og Fjord (10 July 2024 and 11 November 2025), headlines and photo captions. All fetched 12 October 2026.
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