Canada

Ten of Mowi Canada’s farming licences have been suspended after 2.6 million salmon died due to low oxygen-related issues in Newfoundland.

The mass salmon mortalities that took place at a Northern Harvest salmon site in Newfoundland in September have been attributed to unusually high water temperatures.

Plans to move all salmon production in British Columbia to land-based sites have been hailed as being “highly irresponsible with potentially serious and far-reaching negative consequences for Canadian…

The Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Plan (IMIP) establishes a formal process for First Nations oversight of fish farms operating in the Territories of the ‘Namgis, Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis, and …

Claims that escaped salmon are able to wipe out “10,000 years of evolution” by interbreeding with wild salmon have been rejected as “hyperbole” by the head of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Associat…

Three new viruses – including one type that has never previously infected fish – have been identified in populations of both wild and farmed salmon off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Funding of up to $6.1 million has been set aside to help promote oyster aquaculture in New Brunswick.

Ahead of the Aquaculture Innovation Showcase in September, The Fish Site sat down with Wittaya Aqua co-founder Evan Hall and head of operations Tom McDonell to discuss the background of the business a…

Gael Force Group has established a service and supply base in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, to serve aquaculture producers in the province and across Atlantic Canada.

Details of a new $3.8 million project that will use genomic techniques to produce the first selectively bred Canadian strain of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) have been released today.

As The Fish Site builds up to the launch of a Women in Aquaculture print publication at Aqua Nor and a seminar on the same theme at AE2019, we are adding several new interviews. Here Sam Macdonald, pr…

Seafood Progress shows Canada's nine largest food retailers are improving.

According to researchers from Dalhousie University, there is virtually no evidence to support decades-long narratives about the sustainability of finfish aquaculture in Canada.

A Canadian company has secured regulatory approval for two products containing a range of natural ingredients, including black tea, which are designed to improve the health of fish and their eggs in a…

Grieg Seafood has released its 2018 Annual Report; discussing productivity results for its fish farms across the globe

How one woman is helping First Nations communities and the salmon farming industry on Vancouver Island to work more closely together.

The government of Nova Scotia has granted Cermaq Canada four options to lease salmon farming sites in the Chedabucto Bay region, as the company seeks to obtain about 20 marine sites, two hatcheries an…

AquaBounty has been granted approval for the commercial production of its genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon at its Rollo Bay production facility on Prince Edward Island.

Over $1.3 million has been set aside to create an industrial park that aims to encourage the growth of eastern Canada’s burgeoning aquaculture and mining sectors.

Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) has no impact on the respiratory systems of Atlantic salmon, and so is unlikely to affect the health of wild Pacific salmon passing close to farms, according to new researc…