Sea lice

An international collaboration of scientists from Chile and the UK has revealed why some Atlantic salmon are more resistant to infection from Caligus sea lice than others.

Cermaq has transferred its first batch of smolt into the world’s largest flexible closed containment system, which has the capacity to hold 400 tonnes of salmon.

This week’s publication of footage showing wild salmon infested with sea lice tells a story that “lacks context and scientific veracity” according to the head of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organis…

Two of Scotland’s leading fish farming companies have helped to close the cycle of ballan wrasse – successfully breeding from farm-raised broodstock.

Papers relating to cleanerfish production achieved a clean sweep at this year’s awards for Swansea University’s best undergraduate dissertations on fisheries and aquaculture.

Marine Harvest Scotland and Scottish Sea Farms have reported a sustained improvement in fish health during the first five months of 2018, with a marked reduction in disease-related mortalities.

Inspired by the early trials of the world’s largest operational salmon farming pen, SalMar is now determined to head even further offshore, with plans to build a system that can withstand wave heights…

Scotland’s salmon industry should publish their farm-by-farm sea lice levels in real time, rather than waiting three months.

Immersing farmed salmon in warmed water as a means of removing sea lice presents serious fish health and welfare issues according to a new study.

Members of the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) have reduced their use of sea lice medicines by 40 percent in the last five years, according to a new report.

With sea lice an increasingly tough problem for salmon farmers to treat, new research suggests that managing water temperature might be more effective than blitzing the parasites with more chemicals

The inaugural cohort of companies to take part in HATCH – the first ever aquaculture-focused start-up accelerator programme – has been announced today.

A new film by Scottish Sea Farms illustrates the development of the use of wrasse to pick parasites off salmon in marine pens.

A Scottish salmon farming company has pledged to ensure that any wild-caught wrasse it uses as cleanerfish are sustainably sourced.

The deployment of skirts to keep sea lice out of salmon pens is proving very effective for Scottish Sea Farms, with the salmon in the pens involved outperforming all previous year classes following th…

Eirik Sigstadstø, R&D director at the Norwegian Research Fund (FHF), has high hopes for next week’s sea louse control conference in Trondheim, in which the use of lumpfish and wrasse are set to be hig…

Benchmark’s claims that Neptune Pharma executives exploited trade secrets involving Salmosan, a treatment used to combat sea lice by salmon farmers, have been rejected by the Norwegian Court of Appeal…

A new report has concluded that lice emanating from areas of intensive salmon farming are having “a general and pervasive negative effect” on wild salmonid populations in Ireland, Norway and Scotland.…

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

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.