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Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, the world’s largest seafood trade event, will be relocating from Brussels to Barcelona in 2021.

The need to better understand the future of aquatic foods – including the opportunities related to the likely rise of lab-grown fish – is the focus of a new agreement between WorldFish and the Interna…

Bacteriophages offer a novel sustainable alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture, according to Proteon Pharmaceuticals – a start-up that’s looking to break into the commercial aquaculture…

The chief executives of the EU’s Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC) were elected by the body’s general assembly last week.

Claims that escaped salmon are able to wipe out “10,000 years of evolution” by interbreeding with wild salmon have been rejected as “hyperbole” by the head of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Associat…

Tristan Hugh-Jones of Loch Ryan Oysters will represent Scotland in the World Oyster Opening Championships in Galway, having won this year’s Scottish Oyster Shucking Championships.

A Scottish consortium is developing an early-warning detection system for potentially dangerous plankton and algae, which could help the aquaculture industry tackle one of the biggest challenges to fi…

A new £300,000 study involving University of Stirling experts and a leading animal feed manufacturer is aiming to explore how certain feed ingredients can reduce infections in farmed fish.

A company that uses a pioneering egg-sorting system to guarantee at least a five percent improvement in growth rates, as well as improvements in feed efficiency, across a range of species has announce…

One of Scotland’s leading salmon farmers is encouraging locals to join them to collect shoreline litter as part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean which takes place on …

Inalve, a French firm that aims to produce 100,000 tonnes of algae a year for use in sectors including aquaculture feeds and fish health products, has won this year’s Audience Award for Innovation at …

The money will support agricultural educational and research opporunities in Illinois.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has been shortlisted in four categories at the Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards (HIFAD).

Rui Gonçalves and Michele Muccio have officially launched Mycotoxins in Aquaculture, a new book which brings together the authors’ experience from work with terrestrial animals to identify the potenti…

Asda has become the first retailer to publish sourcing details for its farmed seafood, as part of an update to the company’s annual Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP) profile.

Three new viruses – including one type that has never previously infected fish – have been identified in populations of both wild and farmed salmon off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Whole Oceans has received approval for its plans to build a land-based salmon farm on the site of a former paper mill in Bucksport, Maine.

Salmon farming companies dominated the top 10 of this year’s Coller FAIRR Protein Index, which ranks the sustainability standards of 60 of the world’s largest publicly-listed protein producers.

Fish health and the environment, managing risks in aquaculture and insights into the relationship between aquaculture producers and seafood consumers are set to be the key themes covered by plenary ta…

Texan shrimp producer NaturalShrimp has announced that its facility in La Coste is no longer under quarantine for infectious haematopoietic virus (IHHNV).