Atlantic Salmon

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.

The first commercial scale field trial of a new sea lice treatment in Norway have proved both 100 percent efficacious and environmentally friendly.

Russian Aquaculture has raised RUB 1 billion (£12.7 million) in order to help it achieve its aims to increase its salmon and trout production to over 25,000 tonnes a year.

A plan to bring in new legislation to improve the health of farmed salmon and promote the sustainable development of Scotland’s aquaculture industry has been announced today.

Norwegian salmon exports in the first 11 months of the year totalled 909,000 tonnes, worth NOK 59 billion – an increase of 2 per cent and 7 per cent in terms of volume and value respectively.

Collagen extracted from the bones in discarded cod trimmings could be used as a bioactive compound in feeds for farmed salmon.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has appointed Gary Maclean, Scotland’s first national chef, as its food ambassador.

A new project involving the use of gene editing technology to increase resistance against the infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus has received £500,000 in funding.

Australian salmon and trout producer Huon Aquaculture is investing heavily in new equipment as it seeks to increase production in one of the world’s most exposed fish farming areas.

Trials and analyses of feeds including omega-3-rich oil from genetically-modified (GM) canola indicate that it promotes good growth rates in salmon and contains no GM DNA.