Regulations

SalMar’s subsidiary Ocean Farming AS has been granted permission to convert the eight development licences it was awarded for its Ocean Farm 1 concept into conventional salmon production licences.

As antibiotics face stricter regulations and antimicrobial resistance becomes more widespread, the aquaculture sector is seeking new ways to treat bacterial infections – bringing a renewed focus on bacteriophages.

Seventy-six US seafood leaders have sent a letter to encourage members of Congress to learn more about the economic opportunities offered by sustainable marine aquaculture.

Fish farmers who shoot seals in Scotland could face five years in prison now that Scotland has banned the lethal control of the predatory marine mammals.

Changes to legislation could make Indonesia the largest grower of spiny lobsters in the world and benefit thousands of households, according to a recent feasibility study.

Whether salmon aquaculture in the Falkland Islands is feasible from an environmental, social and economic perspective is currently under investigation by the government of the remote archipelago.

NOAA's plans to ensure the sustainable growth of the US offshore aquaculture industry is the focus of the next Hatch webinar.

Danielle Blacklock, who was recently appointed director of NOAA’s Office of Aquaculture, talks to The Fish Site about how to ensure the US develops a sustainable offshore aquaculture sector, what the country can learn fr…

President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth constitutes a major step forward for the US seafood industry, which has the capacity to generate thousands of new…

Vietnam's agriculture ministry has urged authorities in the country’s provinces bordering China to take preventative measures against the spread of decapod iridescent virus 1, in order to protect the Vietnamese shrimp fa…

One of the top aquaculture advocates in Washington believes that there has never been a better opportunity for the embryonic US offshore aquaculture industry to finally take off.

Ensuring that any new aquaculture developments in US federal waters operate sustainably will be the subject of a discussion between three of the country's most influential advocates of sustainable aquaculture this evenin…

New insights into the scale, production method and location of China’s marine aquaculture sector could help the country’s regulators as they attempt to ensure the sustainable development of the largest aquaculture sector…

North American aquaculture firms have welcomed last week’s announcement by President Trump to step up the US offshore fish farming industry.

President Trump has asked federal agencies to identify a series of “aquaculture opportunity zones” in a bid to breathe new life into the US economy as well as reduce the country’s seafood deficit.

The Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has introduced regulations to limit the exploitation of juvenile mangrove crabs and spiny lobsters – species which are regularly caught for on-growing in a…

IFA Aquaculture chairman Michael Mulloy has said the country's aquaculture producers can now benefit from amendments to rules governing the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

StofnFiskur has secured renewed approval to export Atlantic salmon ova to Chile – meaning that it remains the only foreign ova supplier to meet the country's strict biosecurity standards.

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.

Scotland’s salmon farming sector has welcomed the steps taken by industry regulators to adapt the rules governing sea lice treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic.