Salmonids

Julie Hesketh-Laird, the new chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producer’s Organisation shares her first impressions of the country’s salmon sector and how she plans to help it to evolve.

Marine Harvest Scotland and Scottish Sea Farms have reported a sustained improvement in fish health during the first five months of 2018, with a marked reduction in disease-related mortalities.

The arguments for moving all salmon production onto land are laced with "misinformation" according to Susan Farquharson, Executive Director of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association.

The Scottish Salmon Company's plans to produce a unique strain of robust but slow-growing salmon – developed from wild Hebridean stocks – are now coming to commercial fruition, in a project that’s win…

Independent salmon farming company, Loch Duart, has been placed at number 78 in the annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table.

Loch Fyne Oysters celebrated its 40th anniversary by scooping the top prize in the Fish and Seafood category of Scotland’s Food and Drink Awards.

The formation of a new £19 million aquaculture breeding and genetics joint venture (JV) between Benchmark and AquaChile has been announced today.

Grieg Seafood has revealed that 250,000 of its salmon have died at two sites in BC following harmful algal blooms (HAB) in the area.

Marine Harvest Scotland opened their latest hatchery, which will grow up to 12 million salmon a year, at Inchmore on 1 June.

As a post-grad Dr Yvonne Roessner set up the only mussel farm in the German Baltic, an operation that is now thriving, and now has ambitions to take over – and revitalise – the country’s only saltwate…

A new project investigating sterility in farmed Atlantic salmon has been launched today, following the signing of an agreement between Benchmark Genetics and the University of Iceland.

Mick Watts might have built mills in parts of South America where few gringos dare to tread, but despite the lack of gun-toting guerrillas roaming Skye, he says that building a fish feed mill in Scotl…

A 120-strong team of Scottish Sea Farms’ employees, friends and family raised £52,000 to buy the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) a new lifeboat by taking part in a gruelling triathlon in St…

The combined ethical and economic arguments for encouraging gender diversity in aquaculture were among the key themes at The Fish Site’s inaugural Women in Aquaculture event.

A platform for some of the UK’s best aquaculture early career researchers to showcase their cutting-edge work directly to industry stakeholders took place as part of the Aquaculture UK conference this…

Today at Aquaculture UK, the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) announced a new skills initiative and funding for four PhD projects worth over £500,000.

Aquaculture UK has been formally opened by the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity, Fergus Ewing this morning.

A new booklet which aims to debunk some of the myths surrounding Scotland's salmon farming sector has been distributed to key decision makers today.

Steve Bracken, who will soon be retiring from Marine Harvest, has been presented with a special award by the RSPCA for his contribution to the welfare of farmed salmon.

Nofima and Calysta have agreed to launch a series of trials in which salmon are fed diets containing a novel protein made from single celled organisms rather than fishmeal.