How keyhole surgery is improving lumpfish welfare and production techniques19 Jul 2019A veterinarian at Swansea’s Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research has pioneered the use of a non-destructive method to assess the health of lumpfish broodstock.
Why lumpfish benefit from live feeds17 Jul 2019New research has revealed that lumpfish exposed to live prey and frozen sea lice prior to transfer to marine sites perform better as cleaner fish once stocked in salmon pens.
Women in aquaculture: Professor Selina Stead15 Jul 2019Professor Selina Stead, who was appointed director of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture at the beginning of March, discusses why it’s a great time to be involved in aquaculture – regardless of your …
Helping seaweed farming achieve its full potential: how improved practices can benefit communities, consumers and the environment12 Jul 2019We should think of seaweed as anything but the unwelcome marine “plants” their name would suggest. These oft-overlooked species within the aquaculture world have tremendously diverse commercial applic…
Salmon farmer’s £5.7 million investment to protect stock and seals paying off20 Jul 2019Scottish Sea Farms has reported a significant reduction in "last resort" seal shootings as its investment in rigid new pen netting systems surpasses £5.7 million.
Innovation Showcase finalists announced19 Jul 2019Aquaculture Innovation Europe has announced its shortlist for the Innovation Showcase.
Mowi to purchase shares in K Strømmen Lakseoppdrett AS19 Jul 2019Mowi is pleased to announce that they have entered into a Share Purchase Agreement to purchase 100 percent of the shares in K Strømmen Lakseoppdrett AS.
The genes that could help tilapia breeders prepare for more intensive production19 Jul 2019Two genes that might help tilapia producers to selectively breed fish that perform better under crowded conditions have been identified in a new study.
FAI leads bid to boost tilapia welfare18 Jul 2019A potentially groundbreaking project which aims to improve the welfare of farmed tilapia has just been launched in Brazil.
Registration open for Benchmark’s Trondheim seminar12 Jun 2019Fish health and genetics are set to top the agenda at Benchmark’s seminar during AquaNor 2019.
2019 Aquaculture Awards: winners announced30 May 2019The winners of this year’s Aquaculture Awards were revealed at a special dinner held in Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth yesterday evening.
Aquaculture companies urged to enter environmental awards31 Mar 2019Scottish aquaculture businesses are being encouraged to become world leaders in sustainability and embrace the economic opportunities that environmental changes can bring.
Aquaculture 2019 in numbers and pictures10 Mar 2019A selection of images from this week's Aquaculture 2019 event in New Orleans, which attracted a record 3,500 participants from 85 countries, 205 trade stands, 104 sessions, 1,350 speakers and 225 post…
Helping seaweed farming achieve its full potential: how improved practices can benefit communities, consumers and the environment12 Jul 2019We should think of seaweed as anything but the unwelcome marine “plants” their name would suggest. These oft-overlooked species within the aquaculture world have tremendously diverse commercial applic…
INVE takes artemia to the next level18 Jun 2019Pioneering technologies that create Artemia that can suppress vibrio growth and hatch in the dark have been launched today by INVE Aquaculture, Benchmark’s Advanced Nutrition division, today.
Ÿnsect unveils €20 million mealworm facility11 Jun 2019French mealworm farming firm Ÿnsect today has unveiled plans for a fully automated €20 million facility, which will eventually be capable of producing 200,000 tonnes of insect protein a year.
F3 Fish Oil Challenge prize money doubles17 May 2019Veramaris remains in lead at halfway point of global aquaculture feed competition
Cleaner shrimp – a newly minted alternative to parasite protection on fish farms12 Jun 2019Peppermint cleaner shrimp are showing potential as a natural alternative to conventional fish health treatments in aquaculture.
Volta tilapia tragedy continues19 May 2019Tilapia producers on Lake Volta are calling for urgent action by the Ghanaian government to deal with the very high level of fish mortalities, which they believe have been caused by the operations of …
The godfather of shrimp probiotics14 May 2019How a pioneering Australian scientist teamed up with one of the world’s most advanced aquaculture nutrition companies to defy conventional academic wisdom and develop a range of probiotics that has en…
Fish health from the front line22 Apr 2019Mowi farm technician Clara McGhee discusses the main fish health challenges facing Scottish salmon farmers, the range of methods used to resolve them and some of the gross misconceptions surrounding t…
Big Data dividend?3 Jun 2019Big Data solutions in aquaculture could revolutionise the industry, making it safer, easier to manage and more productive. But there could be security and economic dilemmas with adopting digital techn…
Self-farming aquaculture? It’s closer than you think…20 May 2019With remote robots set to carry out more and more routine tasks and facial-recognition software being applied to salmon, automation is already making waves in aquaculture. But just how far, and how so…
New cage concept aims to take salmon sector by storm23 Apr 2019Mowi has applied for 36 development licences for an unmanned, undersea “AquaStorm” salmon pen concept.
How RAS farming can alleviate environmental pressure in East Africa24 May 2019The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s projec…
Women in aquaculture: Professor Selina Stead15 Jul 2019Professor Selina Stead, who was appointed director of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture at the beginning of March, discusses why it’s a great time to be involved in aquaculture – regardless of your …
AE2019 welcomes Women in Aquaculture event18 Apr 2019A seminar looking at ways to ensure greater gender diversity at all levels of the aquaculture sector is scheduled to take place in Berlin on 9 October, as part of this year’s Aquaculture Europe (AE201…
Women in Aquaculture: Yukiko Furukawa21 Jan 2019Seaweed aquaculture is prominent across Japan, but in the southern prefecture of Saga it has a particularly successful history. Home to seaweed farming for more than a century, Saga faces the Ariake …
Women in aquaculture: Marie-Aude Danguy16 Jan 2019Originally from Brittany, Marie-Aude Danguy has been living and working in Ireland since the 1990s. She began working with a group of local shellfish farmers before establishing her own company, Trisk…
INVE takes artemia to the next level18 Jun 2019Pioneering technologies that create Artemia that can suppress vibrio growth and hatch in the dark have been launched today by INVE Aquaculture, Benchmark’s Advanced Nutrition division, today.
Registration open for Benchmark’s Trondheim seminar12 Jun 2019Fish health and genetics are set to top the agenda at Benchmark’s seminar during AquaNor 2019.
2019 Aquaculture Awards: winners announced30 May 2019The winners of this year’s Aquaculture Awards were revealed at a special dinner held in Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth yesterday evening.
Cybersecurity: a growing concern1 May 2019SponsoredThe increasingly automated nature of the aquaculture sector makes it vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to Sunderland Marine - the leading international insurer of aquaculture, angling lakes and v…
