Europe

Over a few short decades, the shape of Shetland’s salmon aquaculture sector went from small-scale crofting by prosperous local heroes to corporate mega-business. Tom Morton surveys the industry landscape now after the boom-and-bust years of a decade ago.

How an Irish entrepreneur is looking towards a six-legged solution to the EU’s protein production deficit.

Encouraged by the success of cleanerfish in other salmon-producing regions, as well as improved access to a number of other novel methods to combat lice, Grieg Seafood Shetland is hoping to move away from a reliance on medicinal treatments – a goal that has be…

​Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing, has visited Gael Force Group’s engineering facility in Inverness following the Highland firm’s announcement earlier this month that they had received their largest ever order, to build and supp…

How a Shetland community company has upcycled many miles of salmon feed piping to make ‘the Arnold Schwarzenegger of polytunnels’.

A grading system, which can sort even lumpfish as small as 0.5 grams, is now commercially available, following the development of a novel design by Stofnfiskur and Vaki, a Division of Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems.

As the search for the best way to produce sterile farmed fish stocks continues, novel methods such as germ-cell migration disruption could offer good alternatives to inducing triploidy, according to one US researcher.

The biennial gathering of the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP), hosted by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), is taking place in Belfast in September – the first time Northern Ireland has held Europe’s largest fish and shellfish hea…