Atlantic Salmon

As 2020 draws to a close, Rabobank’s Gorjan Nikolik offers some valuable insights into the prospects of the shrimp, salmon and fishmeal sectors in the year ahead.

A novel means to assess sea lice levels is set to be trialled in Scotland in a project supported by the UK Seafood Innovation Fund.

Candidates for future aquafeed ingredients – including algae, krill, copepods, insects, yeasts, bacteria and animal and vegetable by-products – are being assessed as part of a new project that aims to improve the climate…

The offspring of salmon that have been bred to be more resistant to sea lice may not be so resistant in warmer waters, according to new research by Nofima.

An in vitro modelling device that simulates the digestive system of a salmon, allowing researchers to assess the digestibility of feed ingredients without as many costly feed trials, has been validated by the results of …

The developers of Sweden’s largest land-based salmon farm have signed an agreement with BioMar for to provide feed for their 100,000-tonne facility.

The first smolts reared at Scottish Sea Farms’ new RAS hatchery have now been harvested and delivered to customers around the world.

A secret species of filter-feeder, placed in novel devices within fish pens, could help to greatly reduce the numbers of parasites, including sea lice, affecting aquaculture operations.

Manual counting of sea lice – an activity that is stressful for fish, time-consuming for farmers and statistically questionable – is no longer mandatory on all salmon farms in Norway, following a landmark ruling.

A new technique that uses a combination of ultrasound and infrared light to remove sea lice from farmed salmon is due to be trialled shortly.

Around 50,000 farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped following a fire at a salmon farm in Tasmania.

The salmon sites currently operated by Grieg Seafood Shetland are likely to have new owners relatively soon, according to Tavish Scott, the new chief executive of the SSPO.

Mowi is currently seeking permission to install four closed-containment fish farms off the west coast of Scotland.

Grieg Seafood has announced plans to offload its salmon farms in Scotland “when the timing is right”.

The Canadian government has reiterated its commitment to "transition" British Columbia’s salmon farming sector from open net pens to alternative production systems.

Salmon farming firms have taken four of the top seven places in an index that assesses the sustainability levels of 60 of the world's key protein producers.

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.