OSLO (Reuters) - Oslo-listed fish farmer Cermaq (>> Cermaq ASA) is making progress in presenting an alternative to a $1.7 billion bid by rival Marine Harvest (>> Marine Harvest ASA) and could sell its most important business area in full, it said on Monday.

"Cermaq has made good progress in alternative processes and has an extensive dialogue with parties interested in different parts of the company's assets, such dialogue also including a full sale of EWOS," it said in a statement.

(Reporting by Balazs Koranyi)

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