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Plankton and high sea temperatures combined to wipe out around half of the salmon at two sites run by Wester Ross this summer.

A group of 20 fish farmers, university professors and technical analysts from Brazil visited Puerto Montt last week, as part of a mission to learn from Chile’s aquaculture sector.

The 2019 Aquaculture Awards are now officially open for entry, enabling individuals and companies from all aspects of the industry to pit themselves against the crème de la crème of the global aquacul…

Stocking farmed tilapia at high densities could be beneficial to their welfare and help safeguard against negative ecological consequences should they escape, according to new research.

Aquaculture leases contributed over half the £9 million paid to the Scottish Government by Crown Estate Scotland last year.

Over third of the people directly employed in Scotland’s salmon farming sector are under the age of 30, according to a report released today.

A brand-new conference that aims to cover issues relating to the skin, gut and gill health of a wide range of cultured fish species is set to take place in Oslo on 11-13 September.

Rainbow trout raised on a diet containing insect meal are now available to French consumers, creating “a landmark moment for aquaculture worldwide”, according to the companies involved.

Victoria Alday-Sanz, director of biosecurity and breeding programmes at Saudi Arabia's National Aqua Group (NAQUA), talks about the challenges of looking after 80,000 tonnes of fish and shrimp each ye…

Ainoo-Ansah Farms, in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch of South Africa and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana is launching its first online course in aquaculture on 25 January.

AquaMaof has signed a deal to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) capable of producing 2,500 tonnes of market-size Atlantic salmon a year.

In the third installment of the series, farm technician Clara McGhee explains how both her own farm site, and the Scottish salmon industry in general, are embracing change.

Aquamonk, an Indian based start-up that uses real-time monitoring and data management for shrimp farming, has been voted Most Investible Business at the Hatch Accelerator Demo Day.

Three recommendations for salmon diets have been given by Nofima researcher Jens-Erik Dessen following a number of extensive field trials.

Plans for a land-based farm in South Africa that’s capable of producing 4,800 tonnes of salmon a year have been unveiled by West Coast Salmon (WCS).

Aquaculture equipment supply firm Gael Force has secured almost half a million pounds in funding towards a project to develop fish farming pens that can be used in offshore environments

Fish feed producer Aller Aqua is taking part in a project that aims to produce 30 tonnes of insects a day by 2022.

Researchers in Norway are investigating whether diets containing microalgae can make salmon more resistant to sea lice.

Small-scale fish farmers in Malaysia operating in brackish water earn 2.5 times more than their freshwater equivalents, according to a new study.

Trials that measured the efficacy of rainbow trout diets containing a single cell protein against a number of standard trout diets have shown promising results.