Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

Larger salmon post-smolts do not grow as well in marine cages as traditional 100g smolts, according to new research.

Representatives of the Scottish and Danish aquaculture sectors are working more closely together in an effort to grow the fish farming industries in their respective countries.

A land-based aquaculture facility that could be capable of producing 50,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon a year is due to begin construction in Maine this year.

Dr Marcy Wilder, senior research scientist at the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), sees huge potential for the production of shrimp and other organisms in recirc…

Marine Harvest’s plan for building a new wrasse hatchery on the Kintyre peninsula has been unanimously approved by Argyll & Bute Council.

Åsa Espmark has been appointed as the new centre director for CtrlAQUA, the £18 million project that aims to make off-the-shelf closed systems for salmon up to one kilo available by 2023.

A project to develop a system that alerts operators of recirculation aquaculture systems (RASs) when dangerous bacteria are in the process of blooming has been launched by Norwegian researchers.

The first batch of salmon broodstock are due to arrive at the SalmoBreed Salten ova production facility next week, following 13 months of construction at the state-of-the-art site.

A new course designed to improve water quality awareness for staff involved in recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) has been launched by the NAFC Marine Centre this week.

Feed trials are now underway at the new Coppens RAS research facility, which opened in the Netherlands last month.

How a mining by-product could revolutionise phosphorous removal from aquaculture systems

One of the planet’s most sought-after sashimi species could hold the key to profitable land-based aquaculture, according to the head of Kingfish Zeeland.

Stable, biosecure, zero water-exchange aquaculture is the only remedy for repeated catastrophic loss from disease in the shrimp industry, according to Panama-based shrimp RAS expert Dr Bill McGraw.

A new collaboration between Fish Vet Group Inc and Pentair has been forged in a bid to encourage the formation of fish health management strategies in the growing number and scale of RASs in the Ameri…