Cold water

While many grandiose aquaculture projects have failed to live up to their promise in the Middle East, Fish Farms LLC – which includes a hatchery, cage farms and RAS facilities in Dubai – offers an example of what can be achieved under testing conditions.

A novel floating, modular RAS design is at the centre of a startup’s vision to scale up the fledgeling Atlantic bluefin tuna aquaculture sector.

A new report by Rabobank, published this week, warns that the growth of Norway’s salmon farming sector is extremely vulnerable to the resource rent tax proposed by the government.

Norwegian salmon farmers have enjoyed a decade of unprecedented profitability, but plans to introduce a 40 percent resource rent tax on the sector - combined with the emergence of new systems for growing salmon in different regions - could undermine the volume…

As she prepares to hand over the manager’s role at Mowi’s salmon farm on Muck, Clara McGhee looks back fondly on the farm – and the island – where she learned the practical side of aquaculture.