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A new programme has been launched today to help improve the sustainability of reduction fisheries – ie those that catch fish primarily for conversion into fish meal and fish oil.

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which produces feed and food ingredients, has announced the realignment of its business segments across four units – Carbohydrate Solutions, Nutrition, Oilseeds and Origi…

The US Aquaculture Society, along with the World Aquaculture Society, brought together over 2,000 people from 61 countries around the world at their Aquaculture America 2018 conference this February.

Bakkafrost has announced plans to invest in a new plant that turns waste from farmed salmon into fertiliser and energy.

Marine Harvest increased the harvest volumes of their Scottish salmon farms by a third – from 45,000 to 60,000 tonnes – in 2017.

A new event promoting greater gender equality in aquaculture has been announced by The Fish Site as part of this year’s Aquaculture UK exhibition.

Aquaculture producers and researchers have been asked to provide feedback on a project that aims to improve the sustainability of shell- and finfish aquaculture - as well as fish welfare - by developi…

Harry Tziouysvas has been appointed as technical service manager for Benchmark Animal Health in the Mediterranean.

Over 80 species of microsporidia are known to infect fish and aquatic invertebrates, explains The Fish Vet Group’s Anna Herrero.

A new feed designed to improve the quality, performance and robustness of marine finfish larvae has been launched this week by INVE Aquaculture.

Huw Golledge, senior scientific programme manager for the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), explains some of the key the issues that helped inspire a £1.7 million donation to projects that improve t…

The Chilean National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) has approved the two-year renewal of the import permit for Atlantic salmon eggs produced by the Iceland based company Stofnfiskur, o…

Some of Britain’s leading cleanerfish experts are taking part in a Q&A session as part of Aquaculture UK in May.

Brexit could have a “potentially devastating” effect on the value of Scottish seafood exports, which rose by 23 percent last year to £944 million.

In the first installment of a two-part review of amoebic gill disease (AGD), John Angles explores the history of the pathogen, which has emerged to become one of the most significant global health cha…

£1.7 million has been pledged by an anonymous donor towards projects that improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods at the time of harvest.

Beatings at gunpoint, slavery, dangerous working conditions and squalid living conditions are among the challenges facing migrant fishermen working aboard Taiwanese-owned fishing vessels, according to…

Thai Union, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, has joined forces with the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) in a drive to reduce the growing problem of marine plastic pollution.

A Scottish salmon farming company has pledged to ensure that any wild-caught wrasse it uses as cleanerfish are sustainably sourced.

Dr Pearse Lyons, the Irish entrepreneur who founded Alltech, died last week at the age of 73.