Health

Vaccination company prepares the ground for expansion.

A new preventative sea lice treatment has shown to keep the parasites off salmon for an average of nearly 9 months.

Suspicions of the presence of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) have been revealed at the Grieg Seafood salmon site near the town of Hammerfest in northern Norway.

The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has granted four development licences for Marine Harvests Egg" closed containment system.

Details of an application for a patent concerning a neonicotinoid-based in-feed sea louse treatment have been recently published in the US.

The parasite Bonamia ostreae has been detected at oyster farms on Stewart Island, off the south end of New Zealand.

Fishguard, the veterinary services arm of Europharma, is inviting all those interested in learning more about fish welfare and health issues to a Fish Health & Welfare Training Course at the Stirling …

The exact nature of the link between sea temperature and blindness in salmon has been established by scientists at Norways National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES).

New research from Nofima shows that salmon diets need to contain more than 1 percent EPA and DHA marine omega 3 fatty acids in order to remain healthy.

A breakthrough which makes possible to breed fish with natural resistance to pancreas disease (PD) in Atlantic salmon has been made by Nofima, SalmoBreed and other partners.

A ground-breaking sea lice treatment is due to be launched by Benchmark in the coming months, according to a trading report released by the group today.

Bakkafrosts farming segment harvested 13,200 tonnes at an EBIT of NOK 34.27 per kg in the first quarter of the year an impressive margin despite facing a number of biological challenges.

INVE has signed an agreement that will result in a range of its tilapia products being distributed by one of Thailands largest quality tilapia fry and feed providers, Manit Farm.

Salmon harvests in Shetland were at historically low levels in the first quarter of the year while the archipelago usually produces around 40,000 tonnes annually, which equates to roughly a quarter o…

Returns of wild adult salmon can be reduced by more than 50% in years following high lice levels on nearby salmon farms during the smolt out-migration, according to the results of a new study.

A combination of good prices and lowered operating costs at sea has seen Marine Harvest Scotland experience a record start to the year, despite CMS outbreaks at two freshwater sites leading to 700,000…

Scottish Sea Farms harvested no fish from its Shetland operations in the first quarter of the year, due to the ongoing impact of high lice levels in the region.

Understanding the natural behaviour of lumpfish is likely to be the key to devising a strategy for how best to deploy them as cleanerfish in salmon cages.

Overviews of the use of cleanerfish in Scotland, Norway, Iceland, the Faroes and Ireland made for a fascinating first afternoon of the inaugural International Cleaner Fish Summit, which kicked off in …

New outbreaks of white spot disease have been found in the wild prawn populations of Moreton Bay, Queensland, prompting fears that an additional number of shrimp farms in the area could face closure.