Welfare

FAI Farms (FAI) is launching free online training on tilapia welfare in five languages: Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and English.

Pat Reynolds, one of the world’s preeminent lumpfish researchers, believes that – despite a number of welfare issues and a slight dip in their popularity – the species merits a prominent place in the list of ways to cont…

The Aquaculture Research Station in Tromsø opened one of the world’s most advanced research facilities for onshore fish farming on 11 January – bringing world-leading resources to teaching, education and research for the…

After the UK included decapod crustaceans in the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, pressure group Crustacean Compassion launched “The Snapshot”, the first assessment of welfare standards for crustaceans within the UK …

Following the launch of a new tilapia welfare assessment programme in China, IQC’s Conglong Li and Sisi Xie explain why they are working with FAI to raise awareness of its importance – both for ethical and economic reaso…

A report on how to improve the welfare of the EU’s most widely farmed fish by Algarve Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR-Algarve), is now available.

Jim Treasurer, co-editor of a new comprehensive publication on sea lice, looks back on over three decades of working to combat aquaculture’s best known and most costly ectoparasites.

This year has been a varied one for Regal Springs. However, there have still been plenty of positives for the flagship multinational tilapia producer, according to Laurent Develle and Vernon Bradley – respectively, the g…

Cermaq has filled the AI-enabled iFarm net-pens with fish for the third time, saying that this phase will leverage machine learning to improve fish health and welfare.

After the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ordered to closure of Cooke Aquaculture’s rainbow trout farms on 14 November, the company has decided to appeal the decision, saying the move was, “unjusti…

Researchers are exploring fish and shellfish responses to health and environmental pressures with an eye to create stronger breeding programmes and sustainable animal protein.

FAI Farms is looking for partners in the tilapia hatchery, farming and processing sectors to trial a new app that aims to improve tilapia welfare and farmers’ profitability.

The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this sometimes presents trade-offs…

Industry data suggests that bacterial infections are on the rise in Norway’s Atlantic salmon industry – and researchers are linking biological stress hormones to their dipping resilience.

Increasing market demand has led to a 144 percent increase in Scottish salmon farms that are seeking Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification in the last year.

A new 4.5 year Horizon Europe project, called Cure4Aqua, has been launched this month in a bid to improve aquatic animal health and welfare.

A new video tool promises to reveal which cleaner fish are bold and which are bashful, helping Scotland’s salmon producers identify the best delousing candidates for their cages.

AKVA group has partnered with Northern Lights Salmon and Sørrollnesfisk to pilot an innovative net pen concept that gives salmon access to water from below the lice belt.

Asia’s shrimp farmers need to reboot their attitude to biosecurity and stocking densities, argues Robins McIntosh, in a follow-on to Monday’s article on the dangers of disinfection*.

The past few months have been gruelling for a number of tilapia farmers on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria, with the deaths of hundreds of millions of fish.