Biosecurity

Using cleaner fish like wrasse or lumpfish as a sustainable delousing strategy for salmon farming may come with unforeseen ecosystem impacts.

Scottish Sea Farms has gained its first Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its three Summer Isles sites.

China has delivered the world’s first 100,000 tonne smart aquaculture vessel on 20 May in Qingdao City.

An innovative container design has shown promising results for use in international air freight of live fish.

The Natural Shrimp Company, one of the key aquaculture projects commissioned by Fisheries Development Oman, has begun its first commercial harvest at its site in Qurun, Jalan Bani Bu Hassan, South Sharaqiya Governorate.

New research suggests that tapeworms often found in the gut microbiome of Atlantic salmon can host their own microbial communities – potentially rewriting the parasitic treatment methods currently used in the aquaculture…

Shrimp that have been bred for their resistance to disease and ability to thrive despite environmental challenges should be valued as highly – if not more highly – than those bred for their growth rates in many parts of …

Local reporting shows that the Huon Aquaculture site accounted for 18 of the 23 of seal deaths in the region’s aquaculture sites.

A new report from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture shows that approximately 1,200 hectares of aquaculture area has been affected by diseases since the start of 2022, a 14 percent increase on the same period in 2021.

Shrimp farming veteran Victoria Alday Sanz, who is also editor of the newly-published second volume of The shrimp book, explains why her original deserved a follow-up.

The three Fernandez Muniz brothers are pioneering a new form of shellfish farming on Galicia’s Ria de Arousa – ongrowing clams in lantern nets in order to improve the fortunes of the thousands of artisanal shellfish prod…

New food safety requirements, worker safety standards and water quality monitoring procedures have been included in the final draft of the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Hatchery Standard Issue 2.0.

India’s shrimp farmers can have improved access to SPF broodstock after Hendrix Genetics and Spathagiri Hatcheries form Kona Bay India PVT ltd and agree to establish a broodstock multiplication centre.

WorldFish has signed an agreement with Premium Aquaculture Limited to transfer genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) fry to Nigeria.

ReelData AI and Salmon Evolution have formalised their partnership after signing a long-term agreement for ReelAppetite feeding software, shortly after the RAS pioneer celebrated its first smolt release at its Indre Harø…

A team of researchers have found that vaccinating tilapia broodstock may confer partial protection from tilapia lake virus (TiLV) to their eggs and larvae.

Recent Nofima research in the CtrlAQUA Intake project shows that there is a lot of gain from adapting the dose to the pathogen one is dealing with.

According to Ohad Maiman, founder and CEO of The Kingfish Company, they can indeed – although he warned that sustainability is by no means “a free pass” to profitability.

The food industry and its partners across the aquaculture, feed, hauling, farming, veterinary and environmental health sectors are highlighting the on-going financial and regulatory burden of Brexit and calling for a vet…

The EU-funded VIVALDI project has released its full technical manual on bivalve biosecurity and disease management, along with recommendations to prevent, mitigate and control diseases in shellfish.