Health

Transmission of infection from neighbouring fish farms is the main way that the viral disease Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) spreads during epidemics. This is the key conclusion of Trude Lyngstad's doctoral research.

Due to the build up of bacteria and viruses in bivalves from filter-feeding, bivalves can be harmful to humans when ingested. The different factors affecting the microbial quality of shellfish is therefore analysed in a study by Carlos Campos, Ron Lee, Simon K…

This article by Peter S. Rand and B. A. Berejikian et al, from the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, Oregon, US, and the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, looks at the ecological interactions between wild and hatchery salmonids.

A study demonstrated that byproducts prepared from salmon livers, salmon milt, black cod viscera and arrowtooth heads and viscera from Alaskan fisheries processing plants were easily digested by shrimp. These byproducts also contained a high level of protein o…

As a response to the request for information regarding scientific advice on biotoxins in conjunction with the work for developing Standards for live and processed bivalve molluscs, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World…