Financial Performance of the Danish Organic Trout Aquaculture1

In this study, we compare the economic performance of organic trout farms to conventional trout and organic agricultural farms. Farm account statistics from Statistic Denmark using financial performance indicators like the degree of profitability and farm solvency ratio shows an impressive organic trout sector. Though organic trout farms could not generate enough income from farm assets in 2010 and 2011, they picked up in 2012. Generally, organic trout farms tend to be equal or better in generating income per unit value of assets and have higher solvency ratios, indicating lower probability of default than alternative conventional trout farms and organic agricultural farms. An average organic trout farm was able to generate incomes of 8% per unit value of assets and a solvency rate of 28% for 2012, a value that economically outperforms other comparable farm units