Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Funding worth £800,000 has been awarded to eleven of Scotland’s shellfish growers and trout producers, in a bid to mitigate the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.

The Scottish salmon sector is calling on governmental support to improve market access, following a significant downturn in export sales caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to act as a catalyst for a number of key changes in the global seafood sector, according to Rabobank’s Gorjan Nikolik

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has announced that its annual GOAL conference will be a virtual event this year, while the live event scheduled to be held in Tokyo has been postponed until October 2021.

Myanmar’s aquaculture and fisheries sectors are suffering from the collapse in the export trade that has accompanied the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whether the upswing in salmon sales in supermarkets during the Covid-19 pandemic will be maintained once restaurants reopen is the subject of debate among salmon producers.

The global salmon sector is suffering from a rising discrepancy between the projected and actual harvests and producers can’t afford to be complacent about their ability to fulfil global demand for salmon.

Rising pressure on British Columbia's food banks during the COVID-19 crisis, has been eased by a vast donation from some of British Columbia’s largest aquaculture companies.

SARS-CoV-2 cannot infect aquatic food animals, meaning that these do not play a direct role in spreading COVID-19 to humans.

IFA Aquaculture chairman Michael Mulloy has said the country's aquaculture producers can now benefit from amendments to rules governing the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

The cascading effect of the coronavirus pandemic have had a striking impact on marine trade in India – aquaculturists have been losing their livelihoods, and experts are expecting more disruption to come

The coronavirus pandemic led to a 32 percent drop in Scottish salmon exports in February, although the sector is trying to adapt to the ever-changing COVID-19-related restrictions.

Despite its horrific implications for global health and the global economy, the coronavirus outbreak should serve as a call for more countries, including Kenya, to become more self-sufficient in food, argues John Eric.

Stolt Sea Farm reported a $12 million drop in the value of its sole, sturgeon and turbot biomass during the first quarter of the year, driven “by a significant drop in market demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic”.

Up to 100 trout farmers and shellfish producers whose businesses are being threatened by the effects of COVID-19 are being offered hardship payments of up to £27,000 from the Scottish Government.

A veterinary scientist in the Faroe Islands has been credited with helping to halt the spread of Covid-19 in the archipelago by adapting tests previously used to detect infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).

Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing has paid tribute to Scotland’s aquaculture sector for keeping UK supermarkets stocked with fresh salmon, trout and shellfish.

Scotland’s salmon farming sector has welcomed the steps taken by industry regulators to adapt the rules governing sea lice treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Female participants in the aquaculture and fisheries sectors are likely to be hit harder by the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new analysis.

Emerging research has demonstrated that Ivermectin, which was previously used as a means of removing sea lice from farmed salmon, inhibits the causative virus for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro.