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An initiative that led to some of the world’s leading salmon farming companies adopt a radical new collaborative approach is celebrating its fifth anniversary today.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have today published monthly mortality figures on a farm-by-farm basis for the first time, in order to increase the transparency of the sector and help improve understanding …

Gael Force Group, the aquaculture equipment manufacturer and supplier, has been shortlisted for three honours at the annual Highland Business Awards.

Chinese authorities have ruled that rainbow trout can now be labelled and sold domestically as salmon.

The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) has appointed John Paul Fraser as its new executive director.

A new community development project has been launched to encourage Zambia’s tilapia farmers to operate more sustainably by using quality feed and fingerlings.

HATCH, the world´s first global aquaculture accelerator, is moving to Cork, Ireland, for its second cohort after a successful first one in Bergen earlier in 2018.

Two of Scotland’s leading fish farming companies have helped to close the cycle of ballan wrasse – successfully breeding from farm-raised broodstock.

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada (CATC) has received a licence that will allow it to conduct QC testing of regulated aquaculture vaccines.

Marine scientists at the University of Plymouth have embarked on an ambitious project to tag juvenile seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in a bid to explain why populations are dwindling.

The Bahamian spiny lobster fishery has been awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification today, making it the first fishery in the Caribbean to join the programme.

A new study suggests seafood consumers across the globe are united in thinking that the biggest threat to the oceans is pollution, followed by overfishing.

A new project investigating the use of camelina that has been genetically modified to contain high levels of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in salmon feed has been launched.

Papers relating to cleanerfish production achieved a clean sweep at this year’s awards for Swansea University’s best undergraduate dissertations on fisheries and aquaculture.

The aquaculture equipment manufacturer and supplier Akva group Scotland is currently inviting applications for a new sales director.

Photographers across the UK and Ireland have just two weeks to enter their best images of the sea in an annual photography competition run by the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.

A recent survey conducted by The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) reveals widespread support for new initiatives that aim to encourage more women to join the aquaculture sector.

The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) has held the first meeting of its feed working group in Machala, Ecuador this month.

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT) has filed a patent for a method to render farmed fish, shrimp and molluscs sterile.

Aquaculture businesses are being encouraged to apply for funding from Sea Pact, a group of North American seafood companies dedicated to the improvement of social, economic and environmental responsib…