US smoked salmon company Ducktrap River of Maine's newly opened smokehouse has so far boosted the company's production capacity for cold-smoked salmon by around 10 percent this year over last year.

Ducktrap General Manager Don Cynewski told IntraFish the Marine Harvest-owned brand is now using salmon from newly acquired Eastern Canada salmon farmer Northern Harvest for its smoked products, which has helped boost capacity.

"We don't have the capacity restrictions we had last year, and the new facility is running great," he said. Salmon of Eastern Canadian origin is a new source for Ducktrap, which in the past has sourced its fish from Chile, Iceland, Norway and Scotland.

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Northern Harvest, the company's newest acquisition, accounted for more than half of the company's third-quarter operational earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) at €6.8 million ($7.8 million), according to the company's latest financial report.

Ducktrap is also seeing success this year with wild sockeye salmon from Alaska, Cynewski said.

The new smokehouse will boost the company's production capacity for cold-smoked salmon by 75 percent in the next three to five years, Cynewski said.