Hello everybody, welcome to this CEO's review regarding the 2024 report that we at FIFAX published this morning. I could start with saying that it's really nice to be here at this time. It's always nice, but now it's especially nice because what the key takeaway from this presentation and our report this morning is, is that we are back in business, so to say very simply, after two years of not being able to actually do business. Now we again deliver fish, and that is really, really great, great news. Let's dig into the details. With me here today, I have Linda, our CFO, as usual, in the room, and she'll be answering questions if needed. Also we have online Visa Manninen, who is helping us with the communications overall, and he'll be facilitating the Q&A so that everything goes in good order. The agenda is quite simple here on the right. Let's first look quickly at the key points of 2024, then spend a short while just to make sure that those people maybe online who have not followed us so much earlier get the recap, and others as well, the recap of what FIFAX actually is about. Then a few words about the key focus of the day, i.e., how did 2024 go and where we are, and then the figures. Then ending with a couple of reminders about how the market overall looks, and then summarizing and landing at what we plan to do next. Then let's round up with questions and answers. Along those lines, let's start. The key takeaways from the second half of last year when it accelerated, and overall the previous year can be summarized in basically these bullets. That's what we have been working on now for a couple of years to get onwards on all of these. What we can say is that technically we now have the full Eckerö facility in operation. All the various farming and also harvesting and delivery units are in operation. We have, since two years back when the first egg batches came in, we've been farming fish, and the big at sometimes feeling even as an elusive target to get to a capacity corresponding fish stock. That has been achieved. We at the end of the year were at 832 tons. Now the number for this week is roughly 870. Both these figures are well within the, could say, normal variation at full stable production. We started harvest in the second week of October, early in the wee hours of Monday, the second week of October, and harvested in total 82 tons during then October, November, and December. More about this also later. Made some revenues as well. EUR 500,000 roughly, slightly under. Still a modest number in terms of the total capacity of the factory, but incredibly nice to be able to say now since two years back that we are actually selling and invoicing and delivering fish to our customers. Financing, those who have followed us for a while know that we've been working quite much and had to refinance this whole restart operation and have continued that, of course, during the previous year as well. Overall, we took in during 2024 roughly EUR 4 million in external funds, mainly loans. We still have EUR 2 million loans from a package agreed last year that are still waiting for disbursement, but those were agreed already last year. Some more words about this also later. The key recap really is that now we have ramped up fish stock full factory, and we have successfully restarted the sales and are expecting that we can scale up those sales volumes here significantly within the foreseeable future. You can see there maybe in the picture behind, just in the middle, there is for example a fish jumping. There is a lot of activity in the factory these days. A short recap about what FIFAX is about, just for the benefit of everybody, it is always good to remind. Who we are, FIFAX is a land-based fish farming aquaculture pioneer, one of the early projects in the first wave of these big scale, large scale land-based RAS projects globally. We have the facility in Eckerö on Åland Islands. You can see the facility, our first factory here in the picture on the right-hand side. This is a trivia point, but we had not thought about it previously, but it is nice to say, even if it does not mean that much, that this is the westernmost industrial facility in the whole of Finland. If you look on the map, there is nothing west of us, which is natural because the sea, as you see in the picture, this is facing west. We are very close to the shore, roughly 1 km down to our pump station. Sweden is across that sea that you can see. That is where we are. What we then do is that we farm fish in this 15,000 sq m industrial facility in an ultra intensive, as we call it, implementation of a recirculating aquaculture system. It is rainbow trout that we farm. RAS is an ideal solution to many places. The configuration varies a bit from place to place, and the drivers why it is suitable, of course, vary a bit. In the Baltic Sea area, the biggest challenge really is the eutrophication, so nitrogen and phosphorus removal and RAS, and especially our very intensive implementation of this, really focuses on that. We remove 99% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the process, and also then the physical sludge, of course, like in any RAS, is collected and recycled. The design capacity of the facility is 3.2 million kg live weight fish per year. That converts, when you calculate it, to approximately 50 tons of gutted hog fish per week to be delivered. That output is enabled then by the standing biomass and the standing continuous farming inside, which is done in a system volume of water totally 25,000 cubic meters, out of which roughly 18,000 is in the tanks and 7,000 then within the very extensive water treatment. Roughly a standing biomass around 900 tons plus minus is the level of where you want to be. With that then, and that is what the capacity can handle in terms of feeding and everything. When that is a well-built and correctly composed spread from egg to harvest size fish, then the output can be stably this planned one. Sustainability overall has been not only one of the key parts, but really the foundation for the whole project. Originally when the FIFAX project was kicked off, this Baltic Sea condition, the prevalent long tradition of also then conventional fish farming and very hands-on experiences on Åland Islands about the state of the sea and then also the importance of aquaculture, but trying to make it in better ways was the trigger that made then the original pioneers to think that, hey, this new method might be something from here. That is where it started. As a symbol for the sustainability that really goes through everything we do every day, we were the first farm in the region to get the ASC certification. The global certification for sustainable farming of fish. Region here meaning actually quite the wide area. There were no ASC certifications in Sweden, Finland, Baltic States, or Russia either at the time. Now there are two more in Finland, but still very limited elsewhere, gradually increasing. As we are on Åland Islands with this factory, it is quite easy and straight logistics to the natural market, nearby market area, which is both Finland and Sweden. As mentioned with the RAS process, we can supply the steady output around the year when this is up and running in a stable state. The reason why we are here and having this webcast is partly that we are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki First North Growth Market since October 2021. On the picture there on the right-hand side, really to point just to those who have not seen us, a couple of points is that as mentioned, the shoreline is roughly 1 km away. We have a private road down there, and our pumping station with which we pump the water we use from the Baltic Sea is located down there. The land area that we own is 34 hectares. Quite much of it is beautiful archipelago forest and so forth. The actual industrial area, the fenced area where we have all the operations, is 6 hectares. Quite a small part of the total land area. That is why we have this 15,000, 1.5 hectare industrial building and then some supporting structure and technical elements outside. Okay, then the second, what is FIFAX educational part, which is really the core, which we often like to kind of recap that what actually happens in a RAS facility and what is the technical basis for it and what is our implementation of it. We have there, you see the light blue figures that say fish tanks that have fish in them. That is, we have a large number of around more than 50, what is it, 30, 46, around 60 tanks of different sizes to cater to the fishes of different sizes at different life cycle stages. Those are filled with water. In those, we keep the fish, we feed them, and take care of them all the time. The water that we use, we take in from the Baltic Sea, but that intake is quite small, up to, it's tens of cu m/ hr, up to roughly 100 cu m/ hr. The equivalent amount is discharged at the end. If you recall from the previous page, we have 25,000 cu m in the system all the time. This is a very small part that we take and or change water. The key thing really is that entire water amount circulates through the internal water treatment systems once per hour. Very big water flows. What happens there is that the water that gets dirty from fish excrements and feed remnants, and then the fish life processes like carbon dioxide from breathing and the ammonia that they also produce and phosphorus also outside the sludge, that has to be removed so that the water remains clean and good and provides good living conditions for the fish. That circulates once per hour. What happens there is that it's on the box on the left-hand side, the internal treatment, we remove the solids in drum filters. We raise the pH, which gets more and more smaller, smaller number due to the organic processes. We raise it back to neutral. The really big part is the nitrification, which is the first step of nitrogen conversion and removal. In nitrification, very, very extensive bacteria processes convert the ammonium nitrogen that the fish produce, which is poisonous to the fish quite soon if the concentration raises, converts it to nitrate, which is then not harmful for the fish. We disinfect the water along the way. UV, ozone are used. We remove the carbon dioxide that the fish breathe out. We oxygenate the water and we constantly manage the temperature. This happens in this hourly cycle. Looking at the in and outflows, the water that we take from the sea comes from 30 m depth out, 600 m out from the shoreline, which is a depth where the water is quite clean. You don't have algae bloomings and so forth and other impacts from the surface waters. We clean that before we take it into the factory. It's filtered and it's disinfected with ozone and UV. Of course, we regulate the temperature. The key thing that differs for FIFAX is these boxes in the internal treatment loop are quite common. Not all of them exist in all RASes, but most do a bit in varying order. What most people don't do is some parts that we then use in the external water treatment before the water goes back to the sea. There the first one is denitrification, which is the second step in nitrogen removal. There we actually remove the nitrogen. It's converted to nitrogen is converted to nitrogenous gas. In that way we get it away from the water. We also pull phosphorus from the water, which we then put together with the sludge that we separate from the water. This sludge is compressed and collected and recycled. Today most of it goes to biogas production, but also to composting in local facilities on Åland Islands. Through that we get the nutrients in circulation instead of them going to the sea where they are not in use, first of all, and secondly contribute significantly to the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, which we specifically want to avoid. These numbers that this cleaning process actually do are quite impressive in our implementation. Our water use is very, very low. We circulate 99.7% in this internal loop. Only 0.3% is taken in as new water in the loop. That is a very high rate. This removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, which is really at the core for the whole project, we have a very, very high rate. Our nitrogen and phosphorus emissions back to the sea are roughly 1% compared to a conventional sea-based farming situation of the same species and rainbow trout. What is not visible in the normal conventional world, of course, is what happens below surface. This sludge that we collect is actually quite substantial amounts. It depends a bit on the compression, how dry it gets. Mechanically, when you compress it to what is relevant, it is roughly 4 kg, slightly less per sludge, per 1 kg of edible fish. That is quite much when you imagine then that it is sedimented on the bottom of the sea. It is not only the nitrogen and phosphorus that it contains, but also the fact that it sediments and then suffocates the seabed and also starts gradually to rot and then produce methane and carbon dioxide and some sulfuric contents. The amount in our facility at full speed calculated when we produce around 3 million kg of fish per year, it means that the amount of sludge that comes from, and that I mean that's lightweight again, so these are different weights, but the amount of sludge from our facilities in that case roughly kind of as a calculated number, so much that it would be one meter layer on an official FIFA dimension soccer field every single year. It is quite much. Another metric is that our own factory, which is roughly two soccer fields, it means that every year we would feel if we could have a warehouse for the sludge on the plot that would be the same size, we would get one meter every year in every two years in that facility. Not many years before it's filled to the roof. That's big numbers and that's really core of what we do. That relates also to the climate element. The calculated target for our CO2 emissions for edible fillet at retail gate is 3.9 kg CO2 equivalent per kilo, which is in the same ballpark as chicken, for example. Very good. That was a recap for what FIFAX actually is and is doing. Let's then dig into with this background information and understanding, let's dig to the 2024 events. As indicated already at the start, it's now pretty much two years exactly since we could restart the facility after the complete stop and sanitation due to this IHN virus infection in June 2022. We got, I think it was the 13th of March in 2023 when we took in the first batch of new eggs to the hatchery of our facility. That is the leftmost picture here. You see the row in the hatching trays and Christian there, they're sort of taking care of them. That is literally a picture from those eggs when they just had arrived. Now we are at the fifth, so it's one week less than two years since that day. After that, we've continued hatching. The latest batch was taken in here in February, and that was already number 11. There are quite many generations in our facility already. That has been kind of steadily then working. A couple of months later in 2023, this first batch was transferred from the first feed tanks, which is then the next step. They have hatched and then they have kind of learned to eat and started to develop their swimming bladder and become kind of fish from larvae. They were transferred to the actual fingerling unit. This system then, I mean, has been operating at full capacity then throughout the whole 2024. Now we have actually separated the steps so that I can describe it on the next page, but the hatchery and fingerling unit produce fingerlings of 50 grams roughly, which we then transfer over to the grow outs, the actual big farming areas. The first fish, again from those first eggs on the picture at the left, were transferred to one tank in the first grow-out unit in the 3rd quarter of 2023. Since then this process has been going on. We have been ramping up and filling the tanks and the units and taking in use more and more. Now since Q4 last year, all three grow-out units are also in use. We now have the fish stock at capacity level and have by that the fundaments in place to really just continue operating and harvesting. We have had a slight delay in the harvest volume ramp up, however, compared to what we were planning still here in the fall before the harvest started. What we realized and what turned out very concretely was that in the tanks overall, in the biomass for Bongvi's first egg batches, first couple of egg batches, the average growth had been slightly lower. The size spread, which is visible at the harvest of what actually then finally is lifted out from the tank, has been wider than expected. This comes from constraints during the ramp up stage. First of all, when we have restarted all our systems in the facility, we started again kind of completely fresh from zero. All the bacterial processes and temperature balances and water quality kind of system balances where there's a lot of biology had to be started from scratch and they take time to mature. During that time you need to be very careful also with feeding and driving and adjusting things so that it does not become unstable. The carefulness there caused a bit of a not full throttle ahead in some moments, which impacted slightly the growth. This fast growing overall biomass with continuously a bit limited tank space as we have connected more and more units at the time and had quite full always the units that we have been using, has then also limited the possibility to, for example, sort the fish according to size along the way so that you have the spread sorted and then it kind of widens also the size spread. These impacts due to these constraints have then caused a slight delay in the harvest volume ramp up. We are now gradually stabilizing then once we now have all systems in place and we also get continuously more data about the content and composition of what we have in every tank. We could start in October actually on the 7th, like I mentioned, second week, Monday in October the harvest and deliveries. Since then we have harvest been delivered every week. It has been really nice to see that the quality has been good overall. The hog yield, i.e., how much gutted fish you get from the live fish, the percentage has been very good. The superior share, which is commonly followed in the aquaculture industry, has been also really nice. Of course, like in land-based operations, people know that because you have to specifically do as part of the process also the purging to balance the taste and remove the off-flavor causing geosmin and so forth has been working nicely and the taste has been good. All the fish that we have harvested up to date has been sold. I mentioned the revenue, EUR 500,000 last year, slightly under, it's visible in the numbers here soon. Actually up to date we have now the volumes have a bit increased. We are now over EUR 1,000,000 in cumulative invoicing since the start of October. Progressing really nicely. If we look technically at the facility, basically kind of illustrating what I said here. This is a very simplified conceptual chart of the units, different units in the facility. Starting at the left, there is the hatchery, which was started in March 2023. Fingerling unit was started in May 2023 and then grow out one was started. Q3, grow out two, we could start in the spring last year in the 2nd quarter. Finally, the grow out three in the 4th quarter. The purge unit started two weeks before we then started harvesting. We moved the first fish here and started to plan for the harvest. As said, second week of October, we started the actual harvest and delivery, which have been going on since. We have now the full technical capacity of the facility in use. We still have some of the planned technical improvements we have had on the roadmap to be finalized here in parallel in grow out three. Then also in the harvest, in the slaughterhouse, some upgrades to, for example, increased automation to make it more efficient. These are not such that they hamper the activities in any way. We are able to do them in parallel with the operations. This same picture we have used here in previous presentations. Those who have seen them remember that we have kind of rolled always light blue numbers or charts and symbols with fish more and more in the system. Then to show some very concrete highlights from the activity. These are actual pictures that I myself have taken on October the 7th, the first harvest day after restarting the operation. Up on left, there is the lifting of one batch of fish from the purge tank. The middle picture up, that's at the harvesting slot table, cutting table, and there people are working with the fish. You have fish packed in the styrofoam boxes to be sent to the customer, sorted, scaled, and weighed. Down on left, more focused picture on the fish. You can, those who know how they should look can see that they are also visually of quite nice quality. Fish in ice already on the way towards the door. Finally, there is the first, I would say the first pallet of fish then of that first day's harvest being lifted into the truck, taking it then outwards. Again, in those styrofoam boxes, if you recall the picture two slides ago of the first eggs from March 2023, these fish are from that particular batch, obviously. That is a long way, one and a half years in the facility and many steps and quite a lot of care and attention put then on those fishes. Okay, what does this mean in numbers? I said in the previous webcast last summer that I hope it is the last time I report zero revenue because that is not why we are here. Like I said, now we posted a modest but already a starting of revenue during the end of last year, EUR 464,000. The rest of the numbers follow that, of course. More details of these you can read in the actual full report that we have published this morning. As mentioned, there is the fish stock 832 at the turn of the year, and now we are at roughly 870. That will vary here in the area between around 900 ±100 tons, between 800 and 1,000, depending a bit how the harvest goes and which tanks are taken, where at what time and how it varies. That is now what we managed then going onwards. The cumulative sales is a bit over EUR 1 million now to date. Three months, EUR 464,000 last year and now in basically two months, a bit more than the same amount. The speed is accelerating here in that sense. If we then look a bit forward, what happens next? It is good always to anchor how the market looks. This slide we have used previously. Numbers are updated in the left curve, but otherwise the same fundamentals remain. There is a good demand for fish overall and increasing demand. Salmonids as part of it, of course, is experiencing quite strong demand. That is visible also from the gradually upward trending prices. There is a cyclicity. This is the Atlantic Salmon Global Index behavior. If you look at the domestic rainbow trout market here in Scandinavia, it follows quite well this Atlantic Salmon price history. Of course, the sizes and the local price level may be different. There is a cyclicity which is similar but a bit different. It's coming from the farming cycle that it's only one batch in principle per year and everything is harvested then during the second half and later during the fall, autumn, so to say. That's when prices are low and at other times of the year they are high. It follows a similar pattern. The demand is clearly increasing. Why is that? There are a few really fundamental drivers that probably are familiar to most. There are more people in the world. Everybody needs their protein. The conventional protein sources are absolutely more. The conventional protein sources, there is a drive to change the source to more and more sustainable and more and more healthy sources where fish and salmonids as a key part of it provide a good answer. The supply is limited. Capture is not increasing. It is rather diminishing and should be reduced even more. It is basically facing a lot of threats. Conventional farming has been growing for the past decades very nicely, but is reaching its limits. Places where you can farm in the first place, for example, salmonids are very limited due to very strict or narrow span of temperatures and so forth. The increasing environmental challenges with temperatures, extreme weathers, and also pollution and different kinds of parasites and diseases are increasing. That means that the success of farming is more and more threatened and there is more and more risk and variation also in the outlook. At the same time, the demand is growing. This gap between the predicted increase of conventional supply and demand is a fact. These new solutions like land-based RAS farming are key elements in how we can solve it. Based on this big picture, we really see that there is a quite solid demand for what we are doing. It is based on quite real problems that we globally face. We feel that what we do is very meaningful and it is worth to keep doing it also going forward. We are not the only ones that think like this. There is a clear and quite strong interest in the land-based farming. It's not been easy here at the first decade of the large-scale farming that we can say that is now kind of starting to be concluded. It's still only pioneers who have done it. This is focusing on salmonids only. I am omitting other fish, which is also looked at in these technologies. Overall, combining reliable estimates, the current estimated running capacity of salmonid large-scale RAS facilities is around 65,000 tons, give or take. That's facilities that are in similar phases as FIFAX, so already in production but have not been yet for so long time or still ramping up, but definitely have fish in the tank and starting first harvest and so forth. We are one of those and with our capacity of the Eckerö, first factory in Eckerö, it's already a significant or meaningful part of the whole cake. Some of the key kind of colleagues, partners in, I won't say crime, but I almost said it. Anyhow, these close colleagues that are on the same journey globally, significant of the same size level, larger, some smaller, and in the same phase roughly, give or take, are listed here. Atlantic Sapphire, Norwegian company in Florida, Salmon Evolution in Norway, expansion projects elsewhere. Finnforel, our colleague in Finland in Varkaus, also rainbow trout, same size of facility roughly. Nordic Aqua Partners, Ningbo China south of Shanghai, started harvest last spring a year ago. Proxima in Japan, Norwegian company also like Nordic Aqua, started harvest pretty much at the same time as ourselves last fall. Danish Salmon has been operating for a while and then some have been in Iceland. I think these are, there are some others, but these are kind of, if you are interested in the industry, it is worthwhile going to these web pages. Most of these are listed, Atlantic Sapphire, Salmon Evolution, Nordic Aqua, Proxima at least. There is a lot of information to get acquainted with the industry also more broadly and the progress and challenges. There is a pipeline of roughly 1 million tons, which is kind of identified in some level of seriousness. Under construction, roughly a bit more than what now exists, not more than that. There is a longer pipeline on the way. It will take several years before this expands to really big one. Still, if you think that the current total production of salmonids globally is roughly 3 million tons, this pipeline represents a third of the existing capacity. That shows also that there is clearly an interest and now just then the expectations that we in the left circle there kind of prove that this really works. We are part of that sort of group of early pioneers. Okay, to summarize these key points here discussed. Really the key takeaway for the whole presentation is that we are back in business. We have said all units of the facility in use. We have fish stock at capacity level fitting to that facility. We see clearly an improved biological performance versus where we were before the break. The key parameters that the industry follows—growth, mortality, feed conversion—they are all on a quite clearly better level. That also shows in the fish quality at the end. We started harvests in October, have been doing it weekly, sending fish to the customers. All the fish that we have harvested has been sold. There is nothing that has been left untaken. We see a very good quality of the fish that we have harvested. Parameters like the hog yield, I mean, so how much gutted fish that you can invoice you get from the live weight. That is on a good level. The superior share meaning that how big part of the harvested fish is actually of the best quality category that is usable, has no visual defects, has the right color, is nice in shape, and so forth. It kind of commands the full price of the size category and is not downgraded. This has been very good. Of course, which is the mandatory thing, we have to have a taste on the right level through a functioning purge process. I don't know actually overall also, but the purge is what finalizes it. We have, like I mentioned, a bit of a suboptimal composition in the now built biomass, especially these first batches that have gone through this spearheading the ramp-up. That has made a slight delay in the scale-up of the deliveries, but the fish is there and now we are then continuing to optimize that. We have some technical upgrades still remaining. Of course, we have worked on the financing. As mentioned, we have raised EUR 4 million in different loan instruments and self-prepayments. We have EUR 2 million agreed long-term loans that are pending disbursement. They are tied to certain milestones on our progress and are expected to be here then disbursed quite soon. Of course, we know and it's mentioned in our report also that further financing is required so that we get through to the level where the operations carry their costs. What we now continue to work on is we are past the actual ramp-up phase and now we can focus on the stabilizing and executing and that feels really good. The key areas now that we work on is to optimize for the stable state production, the composition of the biomass, the size spread, the biological performance and so forth. Do the remaining technical upgrades in parallel. We also stabilize the harvest and delivery and sales so that we get it as steady and stable and high quality with the right size of fish at the right day to the right customer so that we get the sort of best possible average sales price also from the mix. We can fine-tune all the processes also that are related then to just the operational handling of this distribution, which is quite big volumes. As it is supposed to be happening basically daily, there is a lot of exciting work to put that also then in as good shape as possible that goes on. Obviously, of course, we continue with working with the financing solution to complete this phase so that we then are in a stable state. What that then in concrete terms means with our objective settings or the focus areas, these bring are really related to securing this best possible steady state harvest level. Like mentioned, optimizing the composition of the fish stock. We want to also in a control way increase the average harvest weight to get to the largest possible share of the harvest to the best possible price. Focusing to continuously improve the biological performance. These in total then result in the desired harvest level. What we aim to do is to provide then a more detailed, more exact estimate for the 2025 production volumes a bit later, latest in connection to the half-year report when we already know quite exactly where we have come with this optimization level. The long-term strategic target setting we have remains unchanged. That means that we intend to expand our operations with more capacity at suitable locations. The advisory and licensing activity that we have been gradually here working and ramping up and developing in parallel, you see that we want to develop to bring in significant revenues as well. We have stated that with this expanded capacity in 2030, we should be at the mentioned level in terms of what the scope of the business in terms of sales and EBITDA could be. The positive thing now again as being in this stage with the full factory of fish and delivery is running, we can now really begin to plan again for this future investment in new production capacity. This long-term view also becomes more concrete now that we have the foundation to stand on. With that, I think I conclude. Here at the end is just a normal recap that why we believe that we are a quite interesting company for those who are interested in the industry. Demand will, in our view, continue to grow and it's driven by quite fundamental megatrends. We are one of the pioneers in this industry, which in theory is simple, but in practice has proven to be very complex and challenging. There are very few teams globally that have real-life experience of the whole chain, not only building, which is easy, but the ramping up and operating and delivering fish. Through first-hand experiences, we have had the possibility to gain really advanced insights in biosecurity and sanitation and overall handling of special challenging situations that are quite significant when they hit. These are also valuable learnings that we have. Our implementation of the RAS is exceptionally intensive and environmentally friendly. It is ideal for fragile environments with the level we operate. We see that doing it in a bit the way we are doing is interesting in many places. Now that we have returned to volume deliveries and going forward with the intended expansion of capacity over the next years, we see that we can bring increasing volumes of good fish to consumers and extend the positive impact of what we are doing. With that, I close. I thank you for the attention and open for some questions. Let's see what we have there. Just as a closing remark, this is the same factory, but from the different direction. Now you would imagine you are in inland Finland with a lot of forest, but we are still standing on the shoreline of the western most point of the Åland Islands. Yes, thank you. Now it's time for questions if we have any. Visa, how does it look? Yeah, thank you, Samppa. Maybe I could remind first that on the bottom of your screen, there is a chat box where you can post the questions. Now we jump to the first question from Pauli Lohi from Inderes. The question is that what's the average size of the fish you harvest currently? What are the key factors affecting the size of delivered fish? That's a good question, yes. I could have actually mentioned it. When we planned for the restart, we made a plan that we start with the design target weight for the factory is around 2 kilos, kind of the average weight that could produce. The market also takes smaller fish than that. It a bit tactically depends. Now when we started again, we made a plan that we start with slightly smaller fish. Focusing the so-called in Finnish, we say kauppakala or shop fish. That's the size that you normally see as a whole fish in the fish counter. We start with that size of fish first as the average size so that we get as early as possible with volumes to harvesting. We had directly a plan that how we gradually start bringing that upwards. That means that the average size has been there less than 1.5 kg at the start. Now these effects that I mentioned, we started then to realize that actually the average size was still a bit smaller kind of in the whole biomass composition, what comes out at the end. Especially the spread was such that when we sorted fish to the harvest, finally then from those tanks, the share of fish that was above the target weight that we had was smaller than we expected. Now we have spent quite much effort on making more and more sampling. Now when we have had more tanks also to use, we have been able to sort and grade the fish more and more so that we have gotten a better view to what we have. We have actually remade the plan. We now have the target to lift the target weight, the average weight, to around 2 kg during the year. We do not want, of course, to do so that we stop harvesting and grow the fish. Then we would need to throw away or harvest really small fish to give space for those to grow. We would not have proper revenue. We have made a plan where we can stepwise keep harvesting, but still hold on to some larger fish a bit longer and then harvest maybe a bit more smaller fish so that we keep the balance in tank space. We gradually get also evened out the composition in the tanks. I hope that answered the question. Very good actually question. The target is that the average weight increase is now steadily, but in a controlled way. Okay. The next question is a bit related to the previous one. It says that you mentioned the planned technical improvements in connection with the third grow-out unit. Are these something that when finished would positively impact the fish growth? Partially, yes. It's exactly the same elements that we have done already in grow-out one and grow-out two. When we saw this, we had some delays in these investments, partly due to financing delays. Also, we realized that we need to accelerate taking the third grow-out in use because we really needed the tank space so that it doesn't get too crowded in connection with these challenges that I mentioned earlier. What we did is that we started by doing only those things that were really such that they are extremely difficult to do afterwards and that are really mandatory so that we can secure the biosecurity fundamentals that we wanted to bring in kind of as new ones. Things that really are solidly, once you take in water, you can't really touch them anymore and so forth. We noted that we can put in the rest gradually. There are components that we want to upgrade, some technical elements that have been there before and have been working, but we know that we could do them a bit better. For example, how we regulate oxygen flow and so forth. UV channels in grow-out three, they are kind of on top of the biofilters. Those are not yet installed, but the slots and the frames are ready to build and they are waiting then for the actual UVs. Those will somewhat improve the water quality there and that again somewhat can improve the growth parameters and so forth that we have seen are on a good level in the other ones. Yes, partially these are things that may improve also or should improve also the overall growth. Those that are still undone are not things that are in some way kind of, how would you say, crucial, critical that we have determined at the point that it's better that we get the tanks in use with what has to be done before we can take them in use. We continue adding on top because what mostly impacts the growth is really that we have the space in the first place. Thanks. The next question is how much you see further need to recruit more people to operation given that the delivery volumes will increase? This is quite direct from the deliveries. There are two parts that require sort of staff. You can split it so that there's the actual farming operations and the technical maintenance. There we see some need to increase. We have since the restart operated in the hatchery and fingerling units, which are really the fundament for the whole success, even if a small area, in three shifts. In the big grow-outs, the intention is to go to three shifts so that there's always experts on site who really take care of the fish and not only monitor. We haven't yet scaled that up. There is some addition coming to that side so that we really get all positions manned. We are also learning at the time because it's the first time we are running at this full capacity level. We really see that with what frequency, what operations have to be done, and at what times you can do some maintenance work so that it doesn't disturb the farming or something. There's a lot of connections. There will be some increase there. Of course, the other part is the harvest and delivery. That's really processing or kind of harvest line work, which is very directly related to the volume. There we see a need to increase. However, at the same time, our harvesting line is now manual. With that line, we can handle the volumes. Our plan is to put in an automatic harvest line. It's part of our quite sort of central plans. That, of course, then again reduces the need to increase the personnel. The answer is that was a long answer. It is basically that some increase, but it depends on how fast we can make this automation of the harvest line where it lands. Currently, as of today, we are roughly quite exactly 30 people at the facility on site. We are a small handful of then moving agents like Linda and myself and our commercial head who are then moving about in other places. In the site staff, the number is now 30. It will somewhat increase, but it depends on the timing of these automation activities. Okay. That was the last question from the audience. I pass on to you, Samppa, for concluding remarks if you have any. Okay. Thank you, Visa. If there is any question during my concluding remarks, feel free to post. Yes, I think there is nothing else to say. Thanks for joining. Thanks for spending the time. Thanks for showing the interest to what we do. As always, all the material is published. Also, this presentation is on the web or our website. Of course, the full report, we will publish the audited full annual report a week from now. The annual general meeting is planned for early May, to which a separate invitation will be also published. Before that, I hope everybody learned something new and got answers to their questions. I wish everybody a nice continuation of the week. Thank you.
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