Norway

A scheme designed to encourage more Norwegian fishermen to keep their cod catches alive is successfully extending the fresh cod season, according to new research.

Frank Grebstad takes a look back at his time harvesting krill - a key ingredient of the aquafeed industry - in the Southern Ocean for Aker Biomarine.

Judging by the performance of key equipment suppliers, the expansion of the global aquaculture industry is continuing apace – Akva Group alone is ending the third quarter of the year with an order bac…

Considering aquaculture technology helps to contribute to the UN's sustainable development goals on a daily basis, it is surprising that much of the debate surrounding the sector focuses on its shortc…

Russia’s largest salmonid producer, Russia Aquaculture, has successfully acquired a second smolt production facility in Norway, from Olden Oppdrettsanlegg AS.

Capturing haddock live and storing them for 24 hours in tanks prior to slaughter can dramatically improve the catch quality, according to new research.

SalmoBreed Salten’s new land-based ova production plant is now ready to house the first batch of broodstock, following a year of hectic construction.

A new deal which could help to create value from sludge produced by the aquaculture industry has been signed this week.

A new 81.5-metre vessel with a capacity for up to 2,700 tonnes of fish feed will be put into service for BioMar in two weeks’ time.

An initiative led by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has succeeded in retrieving from the seabed over 24 km of discarded gill nets and 44 km of ropes that had been lost or abandoned by fisherme…

The Norwegian lumpfish, ling and tusk fishery, has been deemed to meet the Marine Stewardship (MSC) sustainability standard.

A new study suggests that farmed Atlantic salmon diets should contain four times the levels of niacin and twice the levels of vitamin B-6 compared to those previously recommended, due to the ever-decr…

Fish Vet Group Norge has recently hired Marta Alarcón – a fish health specialist with a strong background in researching cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) in Atlantic salmon and diseases in lumpfish.

The ingredients used in the diets of farmed Atlantic salmon were the subject of a recent seminar organised by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) in Hong Kong.

A novel design of farm, capable of holding 10,000 tonnes of salmon, is scheduled to begin construction next year.

A project to assess the relative merits of coastal planning systems in different regions in Norway, with a particular focus on aquaculture, has been initiated by Nofima.

A number of novel applications for the cultured marine plants are currently being developed in Norway, thanks in part to the increased investment in the country’s Centre for Plankton Technology.

Researchers at SINTEF in Norway have developed a new tool that can provide more effective warnings of the presence of algal blooms.

The belief that fish farms have an adverse impact on the quality of wild fish caught in their vicinity is largely misplaced, according to a recent study.

This week, SalmoBreed and StofnFiskur will begin collecting data from hatcheries for their annual Ova Survey – both in order to ascertain how well their salmon eggs have performed in the course of 201…