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A new algal production facility which will have the capacity to produce 15 percent of the EPA and DHA required for the global salmon feed industry is nearing completion.

Traditional mussel production may take place in sheltered sea lochs and estuaries, but an ambitious new venture off the coast of Devon has found that offshore options offer a range of benefits – both …

A new film released on the world’s first awareness day for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, reveals the true extent of the crisis in Ghana’s fisheries.

The 18th edition of the International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF) will be held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain from 3 to 7 June 2018. This ISFNF event will be celebrating more…

Marine Harvest Scotland opened their latest hatchery, which will grow up to 12 million salmon a year, at Inchmore on 1 June.

​The newly appointed team which will be heading up Marine Harvest’s feed plant in Kyleakin started their new jobs last week.

Jim Treasurer, editor of the first ever comprehensive review of the use of wrasse, lumpsuckers and other cleanerfish species on salmon farms, explains the significance of the new book

Improving the sustainability of reduction fisheries, which provide the bulk of the fishmeal and fish oil for the global aquaculture feed industry, is essential – in particular in Southeast Asia – acco…

The volume of farmed mussels and Pacific oysters produced in Scotland last year increased by 6 percent and 42 percent respectively, making for a record year for the country’s shellfish sector.

With 2394 visitors, 190 exhibitors and a 50 percent increase in floor space, Aquaculture UK 2018 exceeded expectations, as this photo gallery reflects.

Gaining ISEAL associate membership in Brussels last month shows how the marine ingredients industry can drive change, as Francisco Aldon, General Manager of IFFO RS Ltd, explains to The Fish Site.

As a post-grad Dr Yvonne Roessner set up the only mussel farm in the German Baltic, an operation that is now thriving, and now has ambitions to take over – and revitalise – the country’s only saltwate…

Following their biggest ever presence at Aquaculture UK, Gael Force Group has declared last week's Aviemore exhibition as being hugely successful.

The BC-based frozen seafood distributor Tradex Foods has become the 15th company to join the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP).

A new project investigating sterility in farmed Atlantic salmon has been launched today, following the signing of an agreement between Benchmark Genetics and the University of Iceland.

A special issue of the Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, covering the highlights of the 18th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, which took place in Be…

Mick Watts might have built mills in parts of South America where few gringos dare to tread, but despite the lack of gun-toting guerrillas roaming Skye, he says that building a fish feed mill in Scotl…

A 120-strong team of Scottish Sea Farms’ employees, friends and family raised £52,000 to buy the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) a new lifeboat by taking part in a gruelling triathlon in St…

Along with many of its West African neighbours, Liberia’s fish production is a fraction of what it could be. A recent World Bank-led programme aims to change that – harnessing Liberia’s ambition to cr…

The combined ethical and economic arguments for encouraging gender diversity in aquaculture were among the key themes at The Fish Site’s inaugural Women in Aquaculture event.