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Although farmed salmon doesn’t contain antibiotics when sold, the salmon farming sector - particularly in Chile - may be contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to a leading marine NGO.

Funding worth £3.5 million has been set aside for initiatives to improve gill health and resilience among farmed Atlantic salmon – one of the industry’s most significant challenges – under the guidanc…

BioMar has promoted two long-serving employees to executive roles within its salmon division.

New research has found that banks operating in South East Asia and parts of Latin America stand to benefit from improving policies to manage the negative environmental and social impacts of seafood pr…

An initiative that aims to help fund innovations which will improve the performance of the shrimp farming industry is kicking off in Jakarta later this month.

Niels Alsted, who was known as ‘Mr Aquaculture’ by his colleagues at BioMar, has retired after 45 years in the sector.

Aquaculture accounted for 72 percent of the record 99 billion kroner of seafood exports achieved by Norway in 2018, despite making up only 40.5 percent of the volume.

Ensuring the improved performance of barrier tissues - such as skin - in smolts at the time of seawater transfer could improve fish health and save the aquaculture industry millions, according to new …

EU aquaculture doubled its profits to over €800 million between 2014 and 2016, according to a new report.

Nordlaks is ordering its second LNG / battery hybrid wellboat as it continues to roll out a programme to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide nitrogen oxides.

Pioneering new techniques could enable leading aquariums to breed their own tropical fish, following a new collaboration.

Sea Pact, an association of ten leading North American seafood companies, has joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative.

The Ghanaian government has announced plans to be more vigilant against imported tilapia, which are taking the blame for a spate of mortalities that has wiped out up to 80 per cent of the stocks at so…

The Norwegian salmon sector purchased 34.9 million doses of salmon vaccines in November – up from 33.0 million in the same month last year.

Following a year which saw investments in the insect-production industry reach 40 per cent higher than in the previous four years combined, the sector is beginning to fulfil its potential.

Only 9 percent of EU consumers favour cultured seafood products over wild ones, according to a new survey.

Thirty-two aquaculture projects are currently under development in Algeria’s Boumerdès province, where the local authorities aim to achieve an annual fish and seafood production of 15,000 tonnes per y…

The move establishes Merck Animal Health as a leader in emerging digital tracking, traceability and monitoring technology

A line of tilapia that has been gene edited will not be classified as a genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Argentina, according to a government advisory commission.

Fish farmers in Ghana are calling for government action to stem significant fish mortalities in Lake Volta – home to 90 per cent of the country’s aquaculture production.