Atlantic Salmon

Achieving net zero emissions by 2045 is among the pledges made in a major new blueprint setting out a long-term vision for Scotland’s successful farmed salmon sector.

Juvenile lobsters could be grown in containers attached to commercial salmon farms, as part of an integrated multi-tropic aquaculture (IMTA) system, according to a new study.

British Columbia’s salmon farming industry has the potential to be a leader in the province’s post-pandemic economic recovery by stimulating $44 billion in new economic output by 2050.

A new research project hopes to develop a treatment for amoebic gill disease (AGD) by exploiting a vulnerability in the parasite that causes it.

Newly published research into Atlantic salmon has highlighted a hitherto untapped resource of genetic variation that could help unlock even greater aquaculture production benefits.

FishGlobe, a novel fish farm design that is also “the largest construction ever made in polyethylene”, is showing early signs of promise.

Plans to attract more investors to the aquaculture sector have been announced by Hatch Blue, the aquaculture venture company, and the law firm Thommessen.

Results from the first 18 months of production at Norway’s first land-based salmon farm have been revealed today.

The dream of operating floating closed containment aquaculture systems at sea is at risk of becoming “a dead case” in Norway, due to regulatory constraints.

Surprisingly little research into establishing the optimal lighting conditions for salmon in RAS facilities has been published. As a result, and given that light plays a key role in the development of Atlantic salmon, re…

Scotland’s salmon farming sector has reported a record harvest for 2019, topping 200,000 tonnes for the first time.

American Aquafarms is considering establishing sites in Maine for a salmon hatchery, grow~out pens and a state-of-the art processing plant.

Research into how LED light levels in closed-containment recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) impact the physiology of salmon is the subject of a new study by Nofima scientists.

One of the most comprehensive studies of wild Atlantic salmon genetics, which aims to gauge the impact of any interbreeding between wild and escaped farm-raised salmon, has been launched today.

A new type of feeding system that uses water, rather than air, to deliver feed pellets from a feed barge to its surrounding cages has shown to be effective at a commercial salmon site.

The aquaculture sector contributed approximately £885 million to the wider Scottish economy and supported 11,700 jobs in 2018, according to new research.

Tavish Scott, the former Scottish Government minister and Shetland MSP, has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO).

Grieg Seafood has decided to discontinue its operations on the Isle of Skye following the jellyfish-related death of 627,000 thousand salmon.