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Aquaculture innovation, sustainability and food safety is set to be the main theme, and the theme of the first plenary speaker’s talk, at the forthcoming Asian-Pacific Aquaculture event, which is taki…

Marine Harvest’s Faroese and Irish operations were the global salmon firm’s best financial performers in the final quarter of 2017.

An innovative project that aims to increase Irish aquaculture output to 45,000 tonnes per annum by 2020 has been launched this week.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has commissioned Gael Force Group to build a 400 tonnne capacity SeaMate feed barge for its Portree site, with delivery expected later this year.

China’s aquaculture production is forecast to start stagnating due to factors including the introduction of more stringent environmental legislation, according to a new report by Rabobank.

The Spanish tuna fleet has become the first capable of guaranteeing that fish aggregating devices (FADs) cannot be abandoned on reefs or beaches in the Seychelles.

Steve Bracken, Business Support Manager at Marine Harvest Scotland, has announced he will retire at the end of July, after 41 years’ service to Scottish salmon farming,

Benchmark’s claims that Neptune Pharma executives exploited trade secrets involving Salmosan, a treatment used to combat sea lice by salmon farmers, have been rejected by the Norwegian Court of Appeal…

A new report has concluded that lice emanating from areas of intensive salmon farming are having “a general and pervasive negative effect” on wild salmonid populations in Ireland, Norway and Scotland.…

Marine Harvest Scotland has ordered two innovative new utility vessels from Dutch firm Nauplius Workboats.

A discussion of the relative nutritional merits of wild-caught and cultured fish was one of the key themes at a workshop held in Cambodia last month.

Norwegian seafood exports reached a new record value last year, with the 2.6 million tonnes of exports generating NOK 94.5 billion (£8.6 billion) - up by 7 percent in volume and 3 percent in value com…

Early harvest of fish diagnosed with infectious salmon anaemia cost Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) in the region of NOK 55 million (£5 million) in the final quarter of 2017.

An attempt to terminate the lease of a salmon farm run by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific in Washington State is “unlawful”, according to the aquaculture firm.

A cobia farm operated by Open Blue in Panama has become the first in the world to be certified to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) seriola and cobia standard.

New research indicates the US aquaculture industry needs to target strategic outreach and consumer education in order to achieve its growth potential.

Around 58 percent of employees at Scottish seafood processing businesses are from the non-UK European Economic Area, a new report has found.

The formation of a new fishery improvement project (FIP), focusing on tuna, swordfish, and mahi fishing in Costa Rica, has been announced today.

A new version of the Hydrolicer, which includes a new make of fish pump, has successfully deloused salmon broodstock averaging 13.5 kg.

Seafood investor Broodstock Capital has raised NOK 200 million (£18.2 million) for another dedicated investment fund for the seafood and aquaculture industries.