Atlantic Salmon

The first pet food product to carry the blue Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) label will soon be rolled out at retail, the Global Aquaculture Alliance has announced.

A report containing a number of serious concerns about the environmental impacts of salmon farming in Scotland has been published by a Holyrood Committee today.

Larger salmon post-smolts do not grow as well in marine cages as traditional 100g smolts, according to new research.

Washington State's plans to phase out industrial ocean fish farms in state waters are putting 600 jobs as risk, according to Cooke Aquaculture.

Benchmark Holdings, the global aquaculture genetics and nutrition specialist, has hired two new recruits for its burgeoning genetics division.

AquaGen, the salmonid genomics and egg production specialist, has added Robert Murray to its Scottish team.

A land-based aquaculture facility that could be capable of producing 50,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon a year is due to begin construction in Maine this year.

Cooke Aquaculture Pacific yesterday made what may be its final public pitch to lawmakers before they vote to approve a ban on Washington state’s existing salmon farming industry.

Australia’s largest salmon producer, Tassal, has become the 17th fish farm operator to join the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI).

The deployment of skirts to keep sea lice out of salmon pens is proving very effective for Scottish Sea Farms, with the salmon in the pens involved outperforming all previous year classes following th…

A line of aquafeed ingredients which contains bio-astaxanthin – the carotenoid that gives salmon, rainbow trout and shrimp significant health benefits as well as their characteristic pink colour – was…

A new report by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) suggests up to 500 escaped farmed Atlantic salmon entered rivers in Galway and Mayo last autumn.

Marine Harvest Scotland has announced record profits as exports of Scottish farmed salmon continue to grow, despite a challenging year for fish health.

The Scottish salmon farming industry could generate an additional £23.7 million a year if it used its salmon by-products more judiciously.

A new project that aims to speed up the development of a strain of salmon with higher tolerance against the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) starts next month in Norway.

New figures show the highest ever value for Scottish salmon exports, which rose by 35 percent to reach £600 million last year.

A flotilla of white and orange robots is destined to arrive with one of Norway’s most progressive aquaculture operators this year, in a colourful – yet apparently practical – attempt to improve the pe…

Claims made in National Geographic that the aquaculture industry should aim for the total replacement of fishmeal and fish oil in fish feeds are “unjustified and damaging to the fish farming industry”…

A parliamentary committee has asked individuals and organisations to share their views on Scotland’s salmon farming industry, as part of its upcoming inquiry into the future of the sector.

The total value of Norwegian salmon exports last month were the same as in January 2017, despite a 23 percent increase in volumes, due to the average price per kilo falling by almost NOK 15 (£1.40).