Canada

Supplying cannabis for medical use in Canada – which is legal for licenced producers – is a competitive business. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Green Relief Inc uses fish in an innovative aquaponics sys…

The Canadian government has been called upon to “to designate an agency that formally has the mandate to support the growth of the seafood farming sector.”

At least 10 of the 17 salmon farms currently operational in the Broughton Archipelago area of British Columbia (BC) are going to be shut down, following an agreement designed to protect wild salmon st…

Canada’s decision to draft the country’s first ever federal aquaculture act has been welcomed by salmon farming representatives.

Dr Laura Braden, an eminent sea lice researcher who now works for AquaBounty, lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada, with her husband-to-be, a young baby, two German shepherds and a Norwegian forest c…

Fish feed pioneer Alan Donkin has won the 2018 Atlantic Canada Aquaculture Award in recognition of his long-time commitment to the success and growth of the region’s salmon farming industry.

Fundy Salmon Recovery (FSR) released over 600 wild endangered inner Bay of Fundy (iBoF) Atlantic salmon into the Upper Salmon River in Fundy National Park on Friday as part of its ground-breaking reco…

Gael Force Group has revealed its plans to expand its business overseas with the supply of a full range of marine equipment, technology and services to Atlantic Canada’s aquaculture market.

Aquatic animal health researchers and professionals from 34 countries gathered on Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada, for the 8th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health earlier this mon…

PG Flow Solutions has been contracted to supply its PG-HydroFlow fish pump system to a salmon delousing barge that Neptune Marine will build for Cermaq Canada.

Grieg Seafood expects to increase its salmon harvest to 75,000 tonnes this year – an increase of 20 percent compared to 2017 – following marked improvements in its production in Finnmark, BC and Shetl…

The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) has appointed John Paul Fraser as its new executive director.

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada (CATC) has received a licence that will allow it to conduct QC testing of regulated aquaculture vaccines.

The arguments for moving all salmon production onto land are laced with "misinformation" according to Susan Farquharson, Executive Director of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association.

Grieg Seafood has revealed that 250,000 of its salmon have died at two sites in BC following harmful algal blooms (HAB) in the area.

The BC-based frozen seafood distributor Tradex Foods has become the 15th company to join the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP).

Cooke Aquaculture is set to deploy a range of mechanical sea lice removal systems, including their in-house “Cooke R”, over the coming months.

Grieg NL has chosen Benchmark Genetics to supply them with triploid ova for their soon-to-be established sites in Newfoundland over the next five years.

XpertSea, a Canadian company which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to count and size early-stage aquatic organisms such as shrimp larvae and live feed, announced today that it has rai…

The Canadian government has established an independent panel to help protect the marine environment against the possible negative impacts of aquaculture.