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A cohort study of commercial salmon farms in Norway explores different prevention and treatment strategies for salmon lice and finds that habituated cleaner fish can keep lice at bay despite fluctuations in temperature and wind currents.…

Mining has left some of South America’s remote tribes exposed to damaging toxins in their traditional catch. Now, a community aquaculture project is helping the Wayana people avoid ingesting contamina…

A Scottish researcher has been awarded £1.2 million to investigate the use of sea cucumbers to recycle food production waste.

Cooke Inc, the parent company of Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, has announced that it has acquired the former Skretting fish feed mill in Invergordon.

Aquaculture and water monitoring company, Precision Measurement Engineering (PME), has pledged to donate 2.5 percent of sales of key products to breast cancer research in October and November.

Like many of the world’s great initiatives, Montana Microbial Products (MMP), one of the most promising of a clutch of recent start-ups to focus on the aquafeed sector, began in time-honoured fashion …

The aquafeed industry needs to “think out of the box to find growth,” according to a new report, How to Succeed in Aqua Feed, which has been published by Rabobank today.

The Lim Shrimp Organisation has completed the first phase of its plan to establish a $100 million sea cucumber production facility in the Yingkou Free Trade Industrial Zone in Liaoning Province, China…

Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, the world’s largest seafood trade event, will be relocating from Brussels to Barcelona in 2021.

The need to better understand the future of aquatic foods – including the opportunities related to the likely rise of lab-grown fish – is the focus of a new agreement between WorldFish and the Interna…

Bacteriophages offer a novel sustainable alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture, according to Proteon Pharmaceuticals – a start-up that’s looking to break into the commercial aquaculture…

The chief executives of the EU’s Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC) were elected by the body’s general assembly last week.

While aquaculture is often associated with degrading water quality, invasive species introductions and the destruction of important coastal habitats, increasing evidence suggests that well-designed an…

Claims that escaped salmon are able to wipe out “10,000 years of evolution” by interbreeding with wild salmon have been rejected as “hyperbole” by the head of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Associat…

Tristan Hugh-Jones of Loch Ryan Oysters will represent Scotland in the World Oyster Opening Championships in Galway, having won this year’s Scottish Oyster Shucking Championships.

A Scottish consortium is developing an early-warning detection system for potentially dangerous plankton and algae, which could help the aquaculture industry tackle one of the biggest challenges to fi…

A new £300,000 study involving University of Stirling experts and a leading animal feed manufacturer is aiming to explore how certain feed ingredients can reduce infections in farmed fish.

Producing shrimp without the use of antibiotics is a realistic goal for all shrimp producers, according to Loc Tran, founder of ShrimpVet.

A company that uses a pioneering egg-sorting system to guarantee at least a five percent improvement in growth rates, as well as improvements in feed efficiency, across a range of species has announce…

One of Scotland’s leading salmon farmers is encouraging locals to join them to collect shoreline litter as part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean which takes place on …