Health

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, advanced nutrition and genetics business, has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain.

For decades Halamid has been used to keep the gills of salmonids clean, making it essential to the aquaculture industry.

Good prices, a decrease in production costs and a drop in mortality rates have helped The Scottish Salmon Company to achieve record revenues in Q1.

The market for organic salmon appears to be booming, as Marine Harvest Ireland reported its best ever first quarter.

Sales of salmon vaccines in Norway ended at 13.1 million doses, up from 12.8 million doses in April 2017.

The Scottish salmon industry should consider reducing its stocking densities in order to help to reduce mortality levels, according to a major retailer.

After several years of poor performance the profitability of the Chile’s salmon sector is now catching up with its conterpart in Norway, according to a new analysis by Rabobank.

Scotland’s salmon industry should publish their farm-by-farm sea lice levels in real time, rather than waiting three months.

Immersing farmed salmon in warmed water as a means of removing sea lice presents serious fish health and welfare issues according to a new study.

A blanket vaccination programme appears to have significantly reduced the occurrence of pancreas disease (PD) in farmed salmon in northern Scotland.

Cooke Aquaculture is set to deploy a range of mechanical sea lice removal systems, including their in-house “Cooke R”, over the coming months.

Sea lice, co-infections, research with zebrafish and some novel diseases in esoteric species all featured at this year’s Eastern Fish Health Workshop (EFHW).

Members of the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) have reduced their use of sea lice medicines by 40 percent in the last five years, according to a new report.

A new collaborative project to help accelerate understanding of gill health issues in farmed salmon and identify new approaches to overcoming these issues has been launched this week.

With sea lice an increasingly tough problem for salmon farmers to treat, new research suggests that managing water temperature might be more effective than blitzing the parasites with more chemicals

The first ever comprehensive book on the use of cleaner fish in aquaculture, edited by Jim Treasurer, former Research Director at Ardtoe Marine Research Facility, has been published today.

The inaugural cohort of companies to take part in HATCH – the first ever aquaculture-focused start-up accelerator programme – has been announced today.

A new film by Scottish Sea Farms illustrates the development of the use of wrasse to pick parasites off salmon in marine pens.

A vaccine to help protect sea bass against Vibriosis and Pasteurellosis was launched on the Greek market by Hipra this month.

​MSD Animal Health (known as Merck & Co in the US and Canada) has strengthened its aquaculture team with the appointment of a new UK aquaculture business manager.