Norway

Over 28,000 people from 74 countries visited Aqua Nor in Trondheim over the four days of the exhibition, setting a new a record for the event.

The importance aquaculture will play in helping to provide protein for the growing global population was emphasised at the 10th session of the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, which started in Trond…

Visitors to Aqua Nor were treated to virtual reality tour of Norway’s largest land-based salmon site this week.

The value of adopting blockchain technology in the aquaculture sector was the subject of a special seminar at Aqua Nor this week.

A telemetric helmet which will allow vets to assess fish health remotely has been launched by Stim this month.

A new closed-containment system that has been hailed by Nofima as having “considerable potential” to be economically viable has been launched in Norway this week.

A new disinfection system that could dramatically reduce the amount of downtime live harvest vessels need for cleaning and disinfection is due to be trialled commercially in Norway next week.

How the recent proliferation of sea lice, and new methods for ensuing salmon are not infested with them, is driving up the cost of Norwegian salmon production was the subject of a compelling talk at A…

Hatch, the world’s first accelerator for sustainable aquaculture startups, is half way through raising its first €8 million fund.

The need to ensure that new technological systems are actually safe to trial on salmon was the central strand of a talk by Åsa Espmark at yesterday’s Nofima conference at Aqua Nor.

Benchmark is delighted to announce that it has won the prestigious AquaNor Innovation Award 2019 for CleanTreat, a new water purification system that removes medicines from treatment water before rele…

A pioneering system that can automatically count sea lice – and potentially save thousands of man hours, as well as improve fish welfare – is in the running for this year’s Nor Fishing Innovation Awar…

The Benchmark Animal Health team say they are eagerly awaiting Aqua Nor, after CleanTreat was shortlisted for the much-prized Nor-Fishing Foundation Innovation Award.

A self-propelled subsea robot that is designed to reduce net fouling by automatically cleaning nets up to 12 times a day has been nominated for this year’s Nor-Fishing Foundation Innovation Award.

Mowi is pleased to announce that they have entered into a Share Purchase Agreement to purchase 100 percent of the shares in K Strømmen Lakseoppdrett AS.

Despite delivering a net loss of $1 million, Aker Biomarine – the world’s largest krill harvesting company – believes 2018 was a successful year.

New research has revealed that lumpfish exposed to live prey and frozen sea lice prior to transfer to marine sites perform better as cleaner fish once stocked in salmon pens.

A surge in the sales of both farmed Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout helped Norway record its best ever six month period for seafood exports.

A new report shows that ensuring sufficient levels of zinc and long chain omega-3 fatty acids in salmon feed can help improve the gut and gill health of salmon and reduce losses when smolts are transf…

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon will be present at the official opening of the Aqua Nor exhibition on 20 August.