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Liquid handling and pump specialist PG Flow Solutions has acquired Cflow, a company specialized in handling, storage and transport of live fish, in a bid to step up their aquaculture coverage.

A new project is investigating how consumer products made from seafood by-products, such as mussel shells, can be more effectively marketed.

Salmon producers in Norway have almost eradicated the use of antibiotics and all salmon from Norway are completely free from residuals from antibiotics or other medicines.

Marine Harvest, the world's largest salmon farming company, has announced plans to revert its name to Mowi, as the company was originally called.

TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has won a contract to provide the marine compressed air system to the spectacular 385-metre long “Havfarmen” offshore salmon farm.

Linn Therese Skår Hosteland grew up helping her family produce salmon, cod and halibut on a farm in western Norway. Despite wanting to escape the sector at 15, she has no regrets at returning in 2014 …

With an ROV based net cleaner from AKVA group, fish farmers and service companies have got their hands on a more efficient tool than ever before. Now a new model is introduced, reducing net wear to an…

AKVA group reports improvements in performance in its cage-based and software divisions, which led to its revenue in Q3 reaching NOK 637 million, up from NOK 484 million in Q3 2017, and an EBITDA of N…

Skretting Norway’s factory in Averøy has produced commercial salmon feed that contains insect meal for the first time.

Too many fish farmers are failing to learn from past mistakes and the health and welfare of salmon post-smolts is too often prioritised below the pressure to meet construction and commercial targets, …

The relative merits of conventional, land-based, offshore and closed-containment production systems dominated discussions during the first day of the Fifth Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture, whi…

A leading Norwegian salmon farmer took a swipe at the government’s development licence initiative today, as it was prompting firms to design systems that could remove the country’s natural salmon prod…

Aqua-Spark, the pioneer investment fund focused exclusively on sustainable aquaculture, today announced its investment in the Norwegian technology company CageEye. With the funds, CageEye will invest …

An Irish organic salmon farmer has used a novel means to finance the purchase of new state-of-the-art equipment.

Marit Solberg, chief operating officer for Marine Harvest’s Canadian, Scottish, Irish and Faroese farming operations, has announced her retirement today.

AquaShip has announced this morning that it has acquired the Norwegian fish feed delivery specialist Artic Shipping.

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, advanced nutrition and genetics business, has agreed to acquire the data technology provider Videntis in a deal that could be worth up to £300,000.

Following a knee injury Ragnhild Jesica Bjella swapped life as a chef for work as a commercial diver for Norway’s salmon-farming industry. Despite a number of close encounters with Greenland sharks, s…

Cermaq has transferred its first batch of smolt into the world’s largest flexible closed containment system, which has the capacity to hold 400 tonnes of salmon.