Welfare

An innovative container design has shown promising results for use in international air freight of live fish.

New research suggests that tapeworms often found in the gut microbiome of Atlantic salmon can host their own microbial communities – potentially rewriting the parasitic treatment methods currently used in the aquaculture…

Stephen Woods, who has been with Scottish Sea Farms for 27 years, and farm manager of Charlotte’s Bay near Oban for the past 12 of those, was named Finfish Farmer of the Year at the recent Aquaculture Awards in Aviemore.…

A new study has discovered exactly how shrimp respond to heat stress - a breakthrough that could help to reduce farmed shrimp mortalities during periods of high water temperatures.

Local reporting shows that the Huon Aquaculture site accounted for 18 of the 23 of seal deaths in the region’s aquaculture sites.

The RAS Vanguard Standard has been released for public comment, with the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) announcing a 60-day comment period that ends on 4 July.

Though fewer sea lice counts are a key benefit of semi-closed fish farms, researchers say that using clean smolt and designing deeper water intakes could address additional fish health challenges during production.

The Norwegian Medicines Agency (NoMA) has granted Ectosan Vet a marketing authorisation that allows producers to re-use treatment water as they tackle sea lice.

JDE Peet’s, the publicly-listed Dutch food and beverage conglomerate that owns over 50 brands, has won praise from international NGO Lever Foundation for issuing a comprehensive new farm animal welfare policy that includ…

The Aquatic Animal Alliance has sent a report to the government of the Canary Islands in a bid to deny Nueva Pescanova the opportunity to build the world’s first closed-cycle octopus farm.

Shrimp farming veteran Victoria Alday Sanz, who is also editor of the newly-published second volume of The shrimp book, explains why her original deserved a follow-up.

Nueva Pescanova’s plans for starting the world’s first commercial octopus farm may have caused an uproar in some quarters of the mainstream media, but aquaculture of the animals could be the best hope for sustaining wild…

A new project is looking into improving slaughtering techniques in India’s pangasius farming sector.

For the first time in Scotland an innovative water purification system will be trialled alongside a medicine used to treat sea lice on salmon, in what could be a major boost for fish health and wellbeing.

Swansea University will unveil new tools to improve lumpfish welfare at Aqua UK workshop.

A recent study from the US found that yellow perch can remove microplastics from their digestive systems, but expelling the materials has consequences on their microbiomes and finishing quality.

An initial 16-day trial suggests that critical threshold of dissolved oxygen (DO) for mussels raised in hypoxic conditions was between 0.7 to 0.8 mg per litre – with mussels suffering heavy mortality rates if DO concentr…

New research shows that using substrates like rolled packing filler in biofloc systems can boost the overall growth of vannamei shrimp postlarvae.

A new study from the University of Bonn in Germany has yielded an unexpected finding – that cichlids and stingrays can perform simple addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five.

Sainsbury's is the first UK supermarket to have 100 percent of its fresh Scottish salmon range independently certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC).