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Notification of significant shareholding in Grieg Seafood

Reference is made to the releases of 14 January 2014, 24 April 2014, 21 August 2014 and 6 October, 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, 20 August 2014, 3 October 2014 and 23 January 2015 respectively. Marine Harvest further agreed to compensate relevant counterparty interest expenses.

At expiration of the latter set of forward agreements, 23 January 2015, Marine Harvest entered into a new set of forward agreements to purchase the same number of shares with expiration 24 April 2015 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.