Breeding breakthrough can combat CMS21 Nov 2018Salmon farmers can hope to reduce the number of mortalities caused by cardiomyopathic syndrome (CMS), following the discovery of genetic markers that should allow the production of salmon strain that …
Farmers sought for Betanodavirus forum13 Sep 2018Mediterranean sea bass and sea bream farmers are being invited to join an online discussion focusing on viral encelophaty and retinopathy (VER), which causes viral nervous necrosis (VNN), on the MedAI…
Funding secured for ISA-resistance research12 Feb 2018A new project that aims to speed up the development of a strain of salmon with higher tolerance against the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) starts next month in Norway.
ISA outbreak leads to hefty losses8 Jan 2018Early harvest of fish diagnosed with infectious salmon anaemia cost Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) in the region of NOK 55 million (£5 million) in the final quarter of 2017.
PRv paper questioned27 Dec 2017The conclusions of a recently published paper that links the transfer of the piscine orthoreovirus (PRv) from farm-raised salmon to wild salmon have been questioned by the BC Salmon Farmers Associatio…
Pharmaq opens high-tech viral antigen production facility in Norway6 Dec 2017On 1 November 2017, the Norwegian Medicines Agency granted Pharmaq authorisation to produce viral antigens at their new facility in Kløfta. The site has the capacity to produce several hundred million…
Kelp industry put on virus alert8 Aug 2017The UK’s kelp biofuel industry is being urged to watch out for viruses, following the results a ground-breaking study.
ISA detected at salmon broodstock sites11 Jul 2017A virulent strain of the ISA virus has been detected in salmon broodstock at AquaGen’s Merraberget sea site and Rimstad land facility.
