Brothers Arne, Harold, Lars, Hallvard Bertin and Alf Birkeland, and his friend Nils Gunnar Bjaanes, started up the nests made by the same parties from 1960.
Today the group, shipping two ultra-modern purse seiner / trawlers, "M / S Talbor" (delivered in 2001) and "M / S Birkeland" (delivered 2004) and also manage a salmon farm with 7 concessions and a smolt plant.