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.
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…
A world leader in speciality additives for fish and shrimp, Nutriad sponsored the Asia Pacific Aquaculture 2017 (APA) exhibition which was held recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nutriad health expert Isern Subich presented on Health Management for Profitable…
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.
