Lumpfish

A research project led by Felix Scholz, a veterinarian with The Fish Vet Group (FVG) in Galway, has recorded a pathogenic impact of the microsporidian Tetramicra brevifilum in lumpfish for the first time. Here he explains the significance of his findings to Th…

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.

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…

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.