Welfare

Nearly a million salmon have escaped from a farm operated by Blumar, Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) has confirmed.

The introduction of artificial water plants into tilapia aquaculture can lead to significant improvements in fish welfare at minimal expense to the farmer.

The introduction of special feed blocks can give more controlled growth, increased survival and better overall health status of lumpfish in sea pens with Atlantic salmon compared to pelleted diets, according to new resea…

A new study has revealed a key link between liver colour and welfare levels in lumpfish.

As Benchmark’s shrimp facility in Florida begins to gear up towards commercial production, Oscar Hennig, operations director of Benchmark Genetics’ shrimp-breeding programme – who has been in the shrimp sector for nearly…

The results of two-year study designed to identify and strengthen best practices for animal welfare in aquaculture has been published by The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) today.

New modelling techniques that measure the digestion dynamics of key nutrients can provide a systematic view of fish nutrition that’s applicable to multiple species and, in the process, help to unlock the potential of a r…

A new guide to help trout farmers assess the health and welfare of their stocks has been just been published in both English and Norwegian.

Adding krill meal to the finishing diets of farmed Atlantic salmon improves both their welfare and their fillet quality according to new research.

Officials – and even salmon farmers – in Norway are expressing grave doubts about both the ethics and efficacy of using cleaner fish to remove sea lice, putting the future of the cleaner fish sector under threat.

Anecdotal evidence that triploid Atlantic salmon can outperform their diploid counterparts in low water temperatures has been questioned by new research conducted in Norway.

Scotland's salmon farming sector had an average monthly survival rate of 98.60 per cent during 2019, according to the latest figures.

Cooke Aquaculture has not abandoned plans establish a steelhead site in Washington State, despite a court ruling against them last week.

Nearly £2 million has been awarded to projects that aim to improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods at slaughter.

A new tool that is designed to give salmon farmers advanced warning about outbreaks of sea lice and pancreas disease (PD) has been launched by Manolin today.

A new project from Nofima is attempting to ascertain what water speed in RAS can optimise growth rates without compromising fish welfare.

Claims that using cleaner fish to remove parasitic sea lice from farmed salmon can be economically or ethically justified are not backed up by “robust evidence” according to a new scientific report.

Researchers have shown for the first time that a key stress hormone, cortisol, accumulates in fish scales slowly and remains there for weeks.

The Humane Slaughter Association is offering up to £200,000 in funding to encourage the development and adoption of humane slaughter methods for wild-caught fish.

Ace Aquatec, whose inventions include an electric stunner, 3D biomass estimation cameras and a sea lice removal system, has recently received investment from aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark.