The Fish Site

Clara McGhee has recently started working on a salmon farm off the Isle of Muck. In the second installment of her series for The Fish Site she describes powerboat training, production systems and public perception of the salmon sector.

Land-based salmon farmer sets 260,000 tonne target

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

12 November 2018

Grant funding offered for World Seafood Congress

Events Awards

12 November 2018

Green lobby up in arms about "feedlot-style" fish farms

NGO Politics

12 November 2018

Super-sized salmon farm moves one step closer

Technology & equipment Production systems Atlantic Salmon

12 November 2018

Feed firm backs African aquaculture

Nutrition

12 November 2018

Fusarium mycotoxins continue to be the main threat to Southeast Asian aquaculture

Nutrition Environment

8 November 2018 Sponsored

Nutriad present at Aquaexpo Ecuador

Nutrition

8 November 2018 Sponsored

Women in aquaculture Women in aquaculture: Linn Therese Skår Hosteland

Technology & equipment

8 November 2018

Linn Therese Skår Hosteland grew up helping her family produce salmon, cod and halibut on a farm in western Norway. Despite wanting to escape the sector at 15, she has no regrets at returning in 2014 – first as a journalist, most recently as communications off…

Let an ROV do the dirty work – it pays off

Technology & equipment

7 November 2018 Sponsored

Probiotics to boost immune fitness and gut health

Nutrition

7 November 2018 Sponsored

Last call for Sustainable Ocean Summit registrations

7 November 2018

Innovation project for sustainable net impregnation

6 November 2018

Aquaculture in action Aquaculture in action: in-pond innovation doubles tilapia production in Egyptian trials

Water quality Sustainability Catfish / Pangasius

6 November 2018

In the face of rising production costs and limited land and water availability, Egyptian fish farmers are looking for new ways to achieve higher productivity and profitability

Skretting plans to cease UK production due to market overcapacity

6 November 2018

Experts agree that excessive use of antibiotics in Chile’s salmon farming can threaten human health

6 November 2018

A “radical rethink” for tackling algal blooms

Harmful algal blooms

5 November 2018

Hydrogen peroxide could help to save the lives of millions of farmed fish, following a breakthrough discovery about the causes of harmful algal blooms (HABs).

Krill-based projects land funding

2 November 2018

Scottish salmon lands BAP first

Certification Post-harvest Atlantic Salmon

2 November 2018

Improved sales on software and at sea

Technology & equipment

2 November 2018

Tilapia ban risks “trade war” with China?

Politics

1 November 2018

RAS for sale

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

1 November 2018

Plans for new Scottish feed barge facility

1 November 2018

October 2018

Women in aquaculture Women in aquaculture: Dr Laura Braden

Biotechnology NGO Atlantic Salmon

31 October 2018

Dr Laura Braden, an eminent sea lice researcher who now works for AquaBounty, lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada, with her husband-to-be, a young baby, two German shepherds and a Norwegian forest cat. Here, she explains how genetic engineering can help save…