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The largest salmon farming project in Canada’s history has been cast into doubt, after a court ruled that further environmental impact assessments were require before a final decision could be made on…

Samantha Andrews blind tastes sea urchin roes on behalf of The Fish Site.

A new ROV designed for the aquaculture industry has been launched by Deep Trekker this week.

As the pink salmon commercial fishing seasons rapidly approach in Russia and Alaska, it's time to predict where the market is headed this year, writes Robert Reierson in the latest Tradex food 3-minut…

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada (CATC) has received a Certificate of GAP Good Animal Practice from the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) for its aquaculture research facility loca…

AquaBounty, the biotechnology company known for its GM AquaAdvantage salmon strain, has posted losses of just over $2 million for the first quarter of 2017, compared to losses of roughly $1.8 million …

Poor weather conditions and a strong fresh market have kept frozen rockfish inventories bare, leading up to the busy summer season, according to Kyla Ganton, in Tradex Foods latest 3-Minute Market Ins…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved the use of mechanically-extracted camelina oil as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon and trout.

Members of the public are being encouraged to sign up for tours of salmon farms which are being offered by members of the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) this summer.

Following the successful deployment of a number of species notably lumpsuckers and ballan wrasse as cleanerfish in salmon cages in the eastern Atlantic, the aquaculture industry in BC has been seeki…

The General Manager of BC-based Creative Salmon, Tim Rundle, recently scooped the Organic Champion of the Year prize at the inaugural Canadian Organic Trade Associations (COTA) awards night.Held in Va…

The practice of ocean seeding could help regenerate fish stocks and fisheries on an unprecedented scale, as Michael Riedijk, President of Vancouver-based Oceaneos Environmental Solutions, tells The Fi…

A project to research the potential of using kelp perch and pile perch to pick sea lice off farmed Atlantic salmon is one of three to land funding from British Columbias salmon farmers this week.

David Kiemele has been appointed as the new MD of Cermaq Canada, after 17 years in the salmon farming industry, and is due to take up his new position on 29 April.

Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation (HSMI) has been discovered at an Atlantic salmon farm in BC for the first time, a finding that has raised alarm bells for wild fisheries and fish farming interes…

Funding worth $325 million for the fisheries and seafood sectors on Canadas east coast has been announced by the Canadas Fisheries Minister, Dominic LeBlanc, through the newly-established Atlantic Fis…

Global sales of fresh BC farm-raised salmon reached a record $745 million CAD in 2016.

CANADA - 2016 will be recorded as the seventh consecutive year of record top and bottom line results for Clearwater, according to Ian Smith, CEO of Clearwater, after the announcement of the company's …

CANADA - A quarter-billion-dollar aquaculture project in Placentia Bay is facing another legal challenge one that could send it back to square one.

CANADA - The Canadian Government is looking into an incident of damage to an aquaculture site in Shelburne Harbour, Shelburne Co., after a major winter storm earlier this month.