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In a two-part feature, Professor Ross Houston, one of the world’s foremost aquaculture genetics experts, explains how a combination of new techniques and new technologies has a huge potential to improve breeding programmes across a wide range of aquatic specie…

In the fourth installment of the series, Mowi (formerly known as Marine Harvest) farm technician Clara McGhee discusses her fish farm's integral place in a small island community.

The emeritus professor of functional ecology at the University of Glasgow, who is one of the world’s preeminent experts on fish behaviour, discusses salmon welfare, nesting sticklebacks… and a near death experience while at work.

Following the publication of the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee’s report on salmon farming, Dr Suzi Billing explains why Scotland’s salmon sector – and EU aquaculture in general – must work to improve its social licence if it is…

In the third installment of the series, farm technician Clara McGhee explains how both her own farm site, and the Scottish salmon industry in general, are embracing change.

Clara McGhee has recently started working on a salmon farm off the Isle of Muck. In the second installment of her series for The Fish Site she describes powerboat training, production systems and public perception of the salmon sector.

Hydrogen peroxide could help to save the lives of millions of farmed fish, following a breakthrough discovery about the causes of harmful algal blooms (HABs).