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Some of Britain’s leading cleanerfish experts are taking part in a Q&A session as part of Aquaculture UK in May.

Brexit could have a “potentially devastating” effect on the value of Scottish seafood exports, which rose by 23 percent last year to £944 million.

£1.7 million has been pledged by an anonymous donor towards projects that improve the welfare of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods at the time of harvest.

Beatings at gunpoint, slavery, dangerous working conditions and squalid living conditions are among the challenges facing migrant fishermen working aboard Taiwanese-owned fishing vessels, according to…

Thai Union, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, has joined forces with the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) in a drive to reduce the growing problem of marine plastic pollution.

A Scottish salmon farming company has pledged to ensure that any wild-caught wrasse it uses as cleanerfish are sustainably sourced.

Dr Pearse Lyons, the Irish entrepreneur who founded Alltech, died last week at the age of 73.

A new initiative that aims to improve the performance of global shrimp aquaculture production has been launched at Seafood Expo North America today.

AKVA group has signed a contract for the delivery of four Polarcirkel work boats to Bremnes Seashore. With a value of more than NOK 10 million (£927,000), this is AKVA group’s largest independent boat…

Permission to grow almost 6,000 tonnes of salmon in two novel semi-submersible salmon farm systems has been granted to Arctic Offshore Farming by Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has launched a new premium export brand of salmon at this week’s Seafood Expo North America (SENA).

Around £700,000 has been set aside by the Scottish government to help address the range of pressures related to the decline of the country's wild salmon stocks.

Growth in its salmon and shrimp feed production divisions have been credited with BioMar achieving a 12 percent increase in revenue last year.

An attempt to give special status to oysters and scallops from Chile’s Region IV, in order to increase their market value, has been launched.

Seventy-eight percent of 2016’s global tuna catch came from stocks at “healthy” levels according to a new report.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has become the UK’s first salmon producer to achieve Best Aquaculture Practice (BAP) certification for all its marine sites.

Possible ways of overcoming the poor commercial performance of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) projects in Europe to date are included in a new paper, recently published in the journal Aqu…

A project that aims to improve the sustainability of the Gulf of California shrimp fishery has been taken over by two of the largest importers of Mexican shrimp into the USA.

Seafood businesses must be prepared to innovate if they are looking to export their catch across the globe, according to Patrick Hughes, head of Seafood Scotland.

A drop in the overall value of salmon exports compared to February last year, was partly to blame for an 8 percent decrease in the export value of Norwegian seafood last month.