June 22 (Reuters) -

* Norway’s fisheries ministry says will allow Wilsgaard Fiskeoppdrett AS and Nor Seafood AS to breed one million sterile salmon, reversing an earlier decision by Norway’s Food Safety Authority

* This is the second time the ministry has overruled a decision on so-called triploid salmon

* Ministry says had different legal interpretation than Food Safety Authority

* Ministry says its decision does not lower the standards for animal welfare

* Norway Royal Salmon owns 82.49 pct of Nor Seafood, while Wilsgaard owns the remaining shares. Norway Royal Salmon also owns 37.5 percent of Wilsgaard Source text (in Norwegian only): here Further company coverage: (Reporting By Terje Solsvik)