Health

The chief veterinary officers of Scotland, Iceland and the Faroes are all set to attend this year’s Fish Vet Society Conference in Edinburgh.

Cermaq, the world’s second largest producer of salmonids, has reported survival rates for its fish varying from 94 to 96 percent.

Applications for fully-funded PhD opportunity in shrimp health, split between placements in Scotland and Thailand, are currently being invited.

A new project that aims to speed up the development of a strain of salmon with higher tolerance against the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) starts next month in Norway.

The importance of maintaining hatchery hygiene was a key talking point at one of Thailand’s principle shrimp farming conference and exhibitions last month.

An international team of researchers is helping aquaculture producers in India, Bangladesh and Kenya to make better health management choices, in a bid to improve both the profitability and sustainabi…

Despite growing trends in probiotic use, their application in aquafeeds has been constrained by the aggressive feed manufacture process, which kills or maims heat sensitive bacteria. Recently, advance…

The adoption of new technologies and techniques will help combat the increasing biological challenges faced by intensive aquaculture producers and allow the industry to expand, making it a great time …

How a cobia producer in Panama is winning plaudits - and certification success - for its ethical and environmental approach to aquaculture.

A research project led by Felix Scholz, a veterinarian with The Fish Vet Group (FVG) in Galway, has recorded a pathogenic impact of the microsporidian Tetramicra brevifilum in lumpfish for the first t…

Alex Hambro, chairman of Benchmark, the aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business, has announced his intention to retire from the board.

Developments in fish vaccines featured prominently at the latest - and last ever - gathering of the Veterinary Vaccinology Network.

The chance to vote for the best picture published in the journal of the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP) is now available.

Disease-related losses reduce global aquaculture capacity by over 40 percent, according to Dr Giana Gomes, a specialist in the early detection of ciliate parasites, who is determined to help this figu…

Eirik Sigstadstø, R&D director at the Norwegian Research Fund (FHF), has high hopes for next week’s sea louse control conference in Trondheim, in which the use of lumpfish and wrasse are set to be hig…

Benchmark’s claims that Neptune Pharma executives exploited trade secrets involving Salmosan, a treatment used to combat sea lice by salmon farmers, have been rejected by the Norwegian Court of Appeal…

A new report has concluded that lice emanating from areas of intensive salmon farming are having “a general and pervasive negative effect” on wild salmonid populations in Ireland, Norway and Scotland.…

Early harvest of fish diagnosed with infectious salmon anaemia cost Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) in the region of NOK 55 million (£5 million) in the final quarter of 2017.

A new version of the Hydrolicer, which includes a new make of fish pump, has successfully deloused salmon broodstock averaging 13.5 kg.

The conclusions of a recently published paper that links the transfer of the piscine orthoreovirus (PRv) from farm-raised salmon to wild salmon have been questioned by the BC Salmon Farmers Associatio…