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Notification of significant shareholding in Grieg Seafood

Reference is made to the releases of 14 January 2014 and 24 April 2014 where Marine Harvest ASA ("Marine Harvest") announced entering into a set of forward agreements to purchase 28,826,736 shares in Grieg Seafood ASA ("Grieg Seafood") at NOK 22 per share with expiration 24 April 2014 and 20 August respectively. Marine Harvest further agreed to compensate relevant counterparty interest expenses.

At expiration of the latter set of forward agreements 20 August 2014, Marine Harvest entered into a new set of forward agreements to purchase the same number of shares with expiration 3 October 2014 at NOK 22 per share. Marine Harvest has further agreed to compensate relevant counterparty interest expenses.

Following the transactions Marine Harvest has exposure to the same number of shares as previously announced constituting 25.8161% of the share capital in Grieg Seafood.