New trials to grow native oysters are seen as the first step in a considerable expansion of aquaculture in one of Europe’s largest natural harbours, Milford Haven.
Eirik Sigstadstø, R&D director at the Norwegian Research Fund (FHF), has high hopes for next week’s sea louse control conference in Trondheim, in which the use of lumpfish and wrasse are set to be high on the agenda.
Åsa Espmark, who has recently taken over a head of CtrlAQUA – a project that aims to create off-the-shelf solutions to growing salmon post-smolts in closed-containment systems – explains her ambitions to The Fish Site.
A project assessing the use of microalgae byproducts from the biofuel industry as a protein replacement in feeds for farmed salmon is gaining momentum, according to Yangyang Gong, a researcher at Nord University.