Good morning. Good afternoon. My name is Pedro Courard. I'm CEO of Atlantic Sapphire. Today, together with Gunnar Aasbo-Skinderhaug, our CFO, we will present the third-quarter operational update of the company.
The company has been performing according to plan during the last quarter in terms of production, achieving 1,400 tons HOG in the third quarter at an average weight of 3.1 kilos HOG. In terms of prices, we achieved $8.6 per kilo, let us say 19% above the U.S. price index. We have continued the process of operational improvement in all areas, allowing us to keep our ambitions in terms of future production. As we are finishing the operational upgrade started in 2023, we are now realizing the positive impact of having more stable systems.
While our feed conversion remains stable in 1.3, we have been constantly increasing our feed consumption rate, permitting us to sustain our future production plans. Losses were slightly higher than in the previous quarter, but still within normal ranges and very low. Keeping our trend for 2025, during the third quarter, we increased our harvest, maintaining good average weight, reaching premium prices. Following market tendencies during the quarter, we had a decrease in prices compared to the previous one. Both net and standing biomass are showing stable levels for the last two quarters, in line with our expectations.
Efforts are currently on phase two, improving biological and financial performance. Phase one harvest data is improving, sales performance is improving, as Pedro mentioned, and profitability measures are on track. All efforts are currently on phase one.
Phase two investments are preliminary costs as we focus all our efforts on improving phase one. The profitability measures are on track and will drive down unit costs in the coming periods, mainly from three areas. Scale is increasing as volume increases; scale effect is increasing. Current harvest volume is expected at 5,400 metric tons for 2025, growing to 7,000 metric tons for 2026 and 7,500 metric tons for 2027. Another improvement area is cooling and energy as new measures allow more efficient water cooling on the facility. The third main area is maintenance. As Pedro mentioned, the maintenance program is executed and completed and will drive down unit costs going forward. Beyond the ambition, we see further potential going forward. Also, through scale increasing from 7,500 and beyond, we see an optimized phase one operating at 8,500 tons annual harvest weight.
We also have further potential to improve cooling and energy usage and also improve FCR. This will drive down unit costs in an optimized phase one further. Phase two will allow further scale on the facility, allowing even further reduced operational costs per kilogram harvested. Now we open for Q&A. Everyone that wants to ask a question, please identify yourself and ask questions in the chat. We have one question from IntraFish. When do you expect to be able to move to phase two and how have costs for this changed?
First, it's important to mention that today we are 100% focused on phase one. Our goal is to validate phase one, and everything is going in that direction. Once we are able to validate phase one, we will continue spending resources in phase two. So far, we don't have yet a cost estimation for this step.
We have no further questions posted. We are open to receiving questions also on email. We will reply as quickly as we can. There is one here from DNB. What measures will you take to improve net biomass growth to target 2,200-2,500 live weight per quarter, and when do you expect to get there?
Today, we are running according to the plan. The measures are the normal one. We are increasing the feed consumption per day. Our goal is to be at around 32 tons per day, and now we are moving directly in this path. We expect that in the first month of 2026, we'd be in that level of standing biomass.
There are no further questions posted. As mentioned, we will answer questions also on email. Thank you, everyone, for attending this Q3 presentation. Wish you all a great day.
Thank you very much.