Health

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…

Two fledgling biotech firms, one of which uses cutting edge technology to eliminate antibiotic use in fish farming and the other improves fish genetics, have secured investments this week.

In the first installment of a new series of articles by members of the Fish Vet Group’s team of global fish health specialists, Virginia Iglesias looks at the health challenges posed by RTFS.

Benchmark’s £17 million state-of-the-art vaccine antigen production facility in Braintree has now processed its first commercial-scale batch of antigen, which will be used in a number of new aquacultu…

A study that could aid the search for the development of a vaccine against sea lice in salmon, how environmental enrichment can impact cleanerfish welfare, and plans to further the scientific assessme…

A new study suggests that farmed Atlantic salmon diets should contain four times the levels of niacin and twice the levels of vitamin B-6 compared to those previously recommended, due to the ever-decr…

Fish Vet Group Norge has recently hired Marta Alarcón – a fish health specialist with a strong background in researching cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) in Atlantic salmon and diseases in lumpfish.

Researchers at SINTEF in Norway have developed a new tool that can provide more effective warnings of the presence of algal blooms.

Ingredients obtained by KnipBio from specialised strains of leaf symbiont bacteria have been demonstrated to offer promising alternatives to fishmeal in aquafeeds, following a number of recent trials.…

Health issues, leading to early harvests, caused Scottish salmon production levels fell by 5.2 percent last year, to a total of 162,817 tonnes, according to figures released by Marine Scotland Science…

A diet containing a novel single-celled protein developed by KnipBio has been shown to increase survival rates of post-larval Pacific white shrimp by at least 30 percent.

A million-pound project to address one of the key health challenges faced by Scotland’s salmon farmers is underway.

International aquaculture health company Fish Vet Group (FVG) today announced the relocation of its diagnostic lab from Bangkok to Chonburi, a leading aquaculture region of Thailand.

Encouraged by the success of cleanerfish in other salmon-producing regions, as well as improved access to a number of other novel methods to combat lice, Grieg Seafood Shetland is hoping to move away …