Technology & equipment

Havfarm 1, a structure that has the capacity to hold 10,000 tonnes of salmon, has recently been launched at Yantai shipyard in China.

Scottish Sea Farms is looking to trial Scotland’s first open ocean salmon farm as it seeks new locations in which to expand production capacity.

A novel, solar-powered sensor that's designed to measure a suite of water quality parameters for the aquaculture sector has been developed by scientists in Saudi Arabia.

100,000 salmon have been released in a novel pen designed by Atlantis Subsea Farming, which will keep them at least 30m below the surface of the sea.

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 project billed as "Singapore's first-ever smart floating fish farm", which is equipped with a S$1 million integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and video analytics system to detect fish health and growth rates, was o…

Aquaculture investor Hatch is inviting applications for its fourth accelerator programme, which offers 10 companies mentorship, financing of up to $130,000 and industry access.

The second round of applications to the UK Seafood Innovation Fund is now open, boosting innovation for the UK seafood sector.

Hatch has announced that it has raised $8.4 million to further invest in their own portfolio and recruit a fourth cohort for their accelerator programme.

AKVA has signed an agreement to acquire at least 70 percent of Newfoundland Aqua Service (NAS)

Plans to develop and launch a “transformational” fish vaccinating robot by the end of next year have been boosted by a £250,000 grant.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making huge improvements to the efficiency and sustainability of global aquaculture, as this practical guide to some of the best systems currently available shows.

Maruha Nichiro Corporation, the world's largest fishery firm, has invested in Umitron’s latest smart feeding device, the Cell2, in its rainbow trout farming operations in Japan.

The same technology that powers facial recognition and self-driving cars may soon help Maine's shellfish industry protect people from the dangerous effects of harmful algal blooms, according to researchers at Maine’s Big…

An innovative cage design that ensures salmon stay at least 10 metres below the surface of the sea has been shown to reduce lice levels by 75 percent.

Cermaq has signed a two-year global partnership agreement with ScaleAQ, the same week Mowi announced a similar deal with AKVA, as two of the world’s leading salmon producers side with different equipment suppliers.

MSD Animal Health has acquired the fish farm monitoring specialist Vaki from Pentair.

Ralf Onken, head of software development at FAI, explains how working with shrimp producers to manage key performance and sustainability metrics can improve transparency and accountability in the sector.

A pioneering salmon farm, designed to establish the health and welfare of every individual fish in a pen, is due to be launched by Cermaq in Norway next month.

Cyrille Przybyla, the scientist leading the Lunar Hatch programme, tells The Fish Site how he plans to help astronauts breed fish in space from 2021.