Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Sapphire has reported another significant mortality incident this week at its Miami recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) facility.

Starfish, an innovative closed-containment salmon farming system, has now been installed in a Norwegian fjord and is due to be stocked later in the year.

While the aquaculture sector may have suffered numerous setbacks following the outbreak of Covid-19 the finance sector has shown a remarkable appetite to invest in it.

Mowi has promoted Meritxell Diez-Padrisa, its production director in Scotland, to fish health director for Scotland, Ireland and the Faroes, while she will be replaced by Roar Paulsen.

The key piece of paperwork at the heart of export delays to the EU should be completely redrawn and simplified, according to representatives of the Scottish salmon sector.

Software that’s now capable of predicting the early onset of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) as well as pancreas disease (PD) has just been launched by Manolin.

Julie Kuchepatov describes her dedication to environmental sustainability and social responsibility, what inspired her to establish SAGE and why driving tractors in Sakhalin can be a perilous occupation.

New research into disinfection practices in land-based recirculation salmon farms in Norway and North America could be used to create new standards to increase effectiveness and prevent outbreaks of disease.

Some insights into how best to recapture farmed salmon that have escaped from aquaculture facilities have been offered by a new study.

Fisheries Management Scotland and The Rivers Trust have joined the Missing Salmon Alliance – which aims to save wild Atlantic salmon from extinction by combining expertise, coordinating activities and advocating effectiv…

Lower stocking densities in salmon farms can lead to greater levels of sea lice infestation per fish, according to a new study.

How women across the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) #ChoosetoChallenge, to build a more sustainable future for aquaculture.

Many critics of land-based salmon farms believe that their higher stocking densities threaten fish welfare – but, according to the CEO of Salmon Evolution, this may not be the case.

Adding krill to the diets of salmon smolts when they are first transferred to marine grow-out sites – one of the most testing times in the farming cycle – could dramatically improve their growth rates and reduce mortalit…

Acoustic deterrent devices (ADDs) that are considered to cause disturbance to European protected species, such as seals, will no longer be used by salmon farmers in Scotland.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have incurred losses of at least £11 million as a direct result of the changes brought about by Brexit, the trade body for the sector announced today.

A $27 million project that aims to equip eastern Canada’s aquaculture operators with a suite of cutting-edge technologies to improve their operations in remote locations has been announced today.

World Heritage Salmon (WHS), which aims to produce Atlantic salmon in a former mine in Norway, has entered into a five-year contractual agreement with Benchmark Genetics.

A decision by Canada’s federal government to close down a quarter of BC’s salmon farms could cost more than 1,500 people their livelihoods and kill more than 10 million juvenile salmon and eggs, while having long-term im…

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can help provide a detailed evaluation of Atlantic salmon skin is currently being developed by researchers at Nofima.