Health

Plans to launch a review regarding the best practices for fish processing and integrated pest management regulation in British Columbia have been welcomed by the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA).…

A genomic method to improve resistance to salmon rickettsial syndrome (SRS) – a disease that costs the Chilean Atlantic salmon industry more than $100 million a year – could reduce mortality rates of …

Five of Chile’s key salmon producers have come together to launch the Magellanic Salmon Program, which aims to develop an agenda that ensures the sustainable operation of the salmon industry in Chile’…

The first commercial scale field trial of a new sea lice treatment in Norway have proved both 100 percent efficacious and environmentally friendly.

A plan to bring in new legislation to improve the health of farmed salmon and promote the sustainable development of Scotland’s aquaculture industry has been announced today.

Collagen extracted from the bones in discarded cod trimmings could be used as a bioactive compound in feeds for farmed salmon.

Spring Genetics has recently delivered 20,000 tilapia broodstock, selectively bred for resistance to Streptococcus, to Acuícola Maria Linda in Guatemala.

On 1 November 2017, the Norwegian Medicines Agency granted Pharmaq authorisation to produce viral antigens at their new facility in Kløfta. The site has the capacity to produce several hundred million…

A new vaccine that's designed to protect catfish from columnaris disease is currently being developed by Auburn University.

Benchmark has benefitted from substantially increased sales in its advanced aquaculture nutrition and genetics divisions.

A study listing the Chilean salmon farming companies that used the most antibiotics per ton of fish produced in 2012-2014 has been published by the Marine conservation organisation Oceana.

A project to develop a system that alerts operators of recirculation aquaculture systems (RASs) when dangerous bacteria are in the process of blooming has been launched by Norwegian researchers.

Experts from Stirling's Institute of Aquaculture aim to help tackle major challenges within the Indonesian aquaculture industry as part of a new strategic collaboration.

Scotland’s leading salmon and trout producers have united in a bid to extend the usage and efficacy of two of the most environmentally-friendly sea lice treatments currently available.

Despite suffering high levels of salmon mortalities and being forced to harvest fish prematurely, the Scottish Salmon Company achieved its best ever Q3 revenues.

A new project that aims to help reduce the use of antimicrobials in the aquaculture industry has been completed by WorldFish this week.

The development of specific pathogen resistant shrimp will address issues facing the Asian market and is ready for the commercialisation phase.

At the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) conference, Nutriad co-authored a scientific contribution by Rocio Robles et al. demonstrating that a functional feed additive can reduce the mortality caused…

The Scottish salmon industry has insisted that tactics to combat sea lice levels are working, despite a recent press release which revealed the farms with the highest levels of the parasites in Scotla…

PHARMAQ’s ever-expanding range of offerings, which now includes automated vaccination machines as well as diagnostic services, mean that variety was very much to the fore at this year’s PHARMAQademy c…