Atlantic Salmon

A new report has concluded that lice emanating from areas of intensive salmon farming are having “a general and pervasive negative effect” on wild salmonid populations in Ireland, Norway and Scotland.…

Marine Harvest Scotland has ordered two innovative new utility vessels from Dutch firm Nauplius Workboats.

Early harvest of fish diagnosed with infectious salmon anaemia cost Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) in the region of NOK 55 million (£5 million) in the final quarter of 2017.

An attempt to terminate the lease of a salmon farm run by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific in Washington State is “unlawful”, according to the aquaculture firm.

A new version of the Hydrolicer, which includes a new make of fish pump, has successfully deloused salmon broodstock averaging 13.5 kg.

Seafood investor Broodstock Capital has raised NOK 200 million (£18.2 million) for another dedicated investment fund for the seafood and aquaculture industries.

Suppliers of components for land-based fish farms in Norway have started undertaking a new certification process following the launch of a new regulation in Norway.

Åsa Espmark, who has recently taken over a head of CtrlAQUA – a project that aims to create off-the-shelf solutions to growing salmon post-smolts in closed-containment systems – explains her ambitions…

Scottish salmon producer Loch Duart is using a cutting edge traceabilty system to help it combat food fraudsters and protect the reputation of its produce.

The conclusions of a recently published paper that links the transfer of the piscine orthoreovirus (PRv) from farm-raised salmon to wild salmon have been questioned by the BC Salmon Farmers Associatio…

Marine Harvest has announced an agreement to acquire Northern Harvest, a leading East Coast Canadian salmon producer, in a deal worth CAD 315 million.

Plans to launch a review regarding the best practices for fish processing and integrated pest management regulation in British Columbia have been welcomed by the BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA).…

Loch Duart, the independent Scottish salmon farming company, showed a dramatic turnaround in financial fortunes in the year ending 31 March 2017.

Scottish politicians were offered a fresh insight into the importance of salmon farming to rural communities in an upbeat new film by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) which was launch…

Doubts have been cast over the viability of the Atlantis Subsea Farming project, after their bid to increase the number of development licences granted to the underwater salmon farm design was turned …

A genomic method to improve resistance to salmon rickettsial syndrome (SRS) – a disease that costs the Chilean Atlantic salmon industry more than $100 million a year – could reduce mortality rates of …

A project assessing the use of microalgae byproducts from the biofuel industry as a protein replacement in feeds for farmed salmon is gaining momentum, according to Yangyang Gong, a researcher at Nord…

Five of Chile’s key salmon producers have come together to launch the Magellanic Salmon Program, which aims to develop an agenda that ensures the sustainable operation of the salmon industry in Chile’…

Åsa Espmark has been appointed as the new centre director for CtrlAQUA, the £18 million project that aims to make off-the-shelf closed systems for salmon up to one kilo available by 2023.

A new three-year feed deal between Loch Duart and EWOS, will result in the latter contributing "substantial" funds to the communities in Sutherland and the Western Isles.