Atlantic Salmon

Fish health and genetics are set to top the agenda at Benchmark’s seminar during AquaNor 2019.

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business, has completed the dissolution of its joint venture with AquaChile.

One of the UK’s best-known chefs has spoken out against the salmon farming sector at the launch of an initiative that aims to persuade diners to consider a more diverse choice of seafood.

Scottish farmed salmon has reclaimed the top spot as the UK's largest food export.

French retailer Supermarché Match has started to sell salmon fed with Veramaris’ innovative natural marine algal oil.

Today the Scottish government announced plans to introduce legislation to make the weekly reporting of sea lice data statutory, one week in arrears, in a move that has been welcomed by the SSPO.

The capacity of Scotland’s salmon farming sector is set to increase by over 1,600 tonnes following the news that Scottish Sea Farms has been given the approval for a new site off the small Orcadian is…

FishGLOBE v5, a ground-breaking floating post-smolt production unit, is one step closer to commercial launch.

Benchmark has been given the opportunity to take sole control of the salmon breeding operation in Chile that it currently jointly owns with Agrosuper.

A record number of applications have been made for this year’s Nor-Fishing Innovation Award.

Benchmark's SalmoBreed Salten hatchery had its official opening under cloudless Arctic skies on 22 May.

Around eight million farmed salmon are thought to have been killed by a recent algal bloom in Norway.

Mowi has announced a €23 million plan to rebuild its smokery in Landivisiau, France, which burnt down in July 2018.

Benchmark’s state-of-the-art egg production unit opened to much fanfare at Salten today.

Mowi farm technician Clara McGhee notes how incremental environmental changes - as can be observed on a seasonal basis from a salmon farm - are also having a wider, and more worrying, impact on the he…

Scotland’s salmon farmers have denied any wrongdoing despite allegations made on a Panorama investigation, which was aired on BBC 1 last night.

Strong performances of its operations in Iceland and northern Norway have helped Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) record an operational EBIT of NOK 22.42 per kilo for the first quarter 2019 – up from NOK 18.…

Alistair Erskine, a Scottish seafood industry expert, is taking over as Chairman of Loch Duart, the salmon farming business based in Sutherland and the Uists.

Over €2 million in grant funding, supporting total investment of over €6,472,909 in the aquaculture and seafood processing sectors, has been announced by Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture Food and th…

Loch Duart, the salmon producer based in Sutherland and the Uists, has been named ‘Exporter of the Year’ at the 2019 Made in Scotland Awards.