Health

The UK’s kelp biofuel industry is being urged to watch out for viruses, following the results a ground-breaking study.

INVE Aquaculture has released a significant upgrade to its range of shrimp probiotics, a new and enhanced version Sanolife PRO-2.

A manual that explains the key indicators to use to assess farmed salmon welfare has recently been published.

A virulent strain of the ISA virus has been detected in salmon broodstock at AquaGen’s Merraberget sea site and Rimstad land facility.

Chile’s salmonid producers will be forced to reveal the exact volume of antibiotics they use each year, after the country’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the salmon industry for this to remain c…

A new and upgraded testing centre that will conduct research into larval and juvenile shrimp and tilapia nutrition and health has been opened by INVE in Chonburi, Thailand.

Stable, biosecure, zero water-exchange aquaculture is the only remedy for repeated catastrophic loss from disease in the shrimp industry, according to Panama-based shrimp RAS expert Dr Bill McGraw.

SEPA's decision to cut SLICE use by 60 percent called into question.

Scottish politicians have launched an official enquiry into the state of the country’s salmon farming industry, following a petition which seeks to protect wild salmonids from sea lice which are said …

Pledge to reduce antibiotic use proves crucial.

The success of a project that used a cutting-edge genetic technique to assess the presence of water-borne pathogens in Australia's barramundi sector shows the huge potential the technique has to offer…

SEPA to enforce louse treatment reduction, but biomass limits might be increased.

Combined teams will provide intensive technical support to customers.

Vaccines and traditional control methods have failed to stop SRS from threatening Chile’s aquaculture industry. But a research student in Canada might just have found a simple solution to the devastat…

Investments in cleanerfish and mechanical sea lice removal pay off.

Antibiotic use in Chilean salmon production is still unacceptable, warns Oceana, despite 15 percent drop last year.

Europharma, one of the world's leading developers of fish health and welfare programmes, is gearing up for its annual fish health seminar in the Lofoten Islands, Norway.

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.