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Consumer awareness of sustainable aquaculture production has led to increased interest in certification for sustainable aquaculture practices. In contrast to common belief, this certification encompasses a broader scope than just environmental issues. It also …

Proliferative kidney disease is a widespread disease of farmed and wildsalmonid populations in Europe and North America, caused by the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae. Ahmed Abd-Elfattah et al, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria, evalua…

Fish are not silent creatures. Just like the terrestrial world, theres a veritable symphony of sound echoing under the sea.

To test whether digestion affected swimming performance in an active forager and whether the possible effects varied with temperature, Jing Peng et al, Chongqing Normal University, investigated the critical swimming speed (Ucrit) and the resting and active met…

Although the effects of fish density on the performance of fish have been widely studied, there has been little work done into the effect of cage size on seabass performance, said Athanasios Samaras speaking at Aquaculture Europe 2014, writes Lucy Towers, TheF…

Knut Wiik Vollset and Bjrn Torgeir Barlaup, Uni Research - Environment, LFI, Norway, report on the first observation of a winter epizootic of salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis Kryer on sea trout Salmo trutta Linnaeus in a Norwegian fjord with intensivesalmon…