Norwegian salmon farmers have enjoyed a decade of unprecedented profitability, but plans to introduce a 40 percent resource rent tax on the sector - combined with the emergence of new systems for growing salmon in different regions - could undermine the volume…
Pat Reynolds, one of the world’s preeminent lumpfish researchers, believes that – despite a number of welfare issues and a slight dip in their popularity – the species merits a prominent place in the list of ways to control sea lice on salmon farms.
Norway’s Atlantic salmon sector published their feed composition and utilisation data from 2020, showing more novel ingredients in their formulations and greater salmon output – but as inflation and global commodity prices surge, feed companies may face diffic…
Aquaculture advocate Jennifer Bushman is the co-founder of Fed by Blue and executive producer of Hope in the in Water – a four-part docuseries about the future of blue foods that’s due to be broadcast in early 2024.
The Norwegian government’s plans to dramatically increase tax on salmon production is likely to have a raft of unintended negative consequences along the salmon supply chain, without having a long term benefit to the country’s coffers, according to Gorjan Niko…
A new multi-cohort trial has demonstrated the efficacy of semi-closed containment systems (SCCS) for Atlantic salmon – with results showing lower lice counts, higher growth rates, higher final weights and higher survival rates for salmon in Preline’s SCCS comp…
