Atlantic Salmon

The chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO), Julie Hesketh-Laird, has announced her decision to leave the organisation in September.

The developers of a laser that has been designed to knock sea lice off farm raised salmon have defended their product following a study that questioned its efficacy.

A new report is urging consumers to eat less farmed salmon in favour of more fish and shellfish that are lower down the foodchain.

Smolt that have been kept in brackish water for two weeks in their hatcheries before being transferred to marine nets pens are less susceptible to skin ulcers caused by Tenacibaculum.

The efficacy of a laser-firing device that has been designed to reduce sea lice pressures on farmed salmon has been called into question by new research.

Scottish Sea Farms has announced that it will pay back in full the furlough scheme funding it received from the UK government during the COVID-19 restrictions.

Norwegian salmon exports to China fell by a third last week following links between salmon imports and the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Beijing.

Fish farmers who shoot seals in Scotland could face five years in prison now that Scotland has banned the lethal control of the predatory marine mammals.

A new wave of COVID-19 in China has prompted the country to stop importing Norwegian salmon, after the virus was detected on boards used for cutting up imported salmon at the Xinfadi food market in Beijing.

Salmon fat cells release lipid in different ways, based on the type of fat they have stored in their bodies, shedding new light on what happens in the cells during fasting.

A 15,000-tonne capacity land-based salmon farm is being planned for Eastern Shore, Maryland.

Whether salmon aquaculture in the Falkland Islands is feasible from an environmental, social and economic perspective is currently under investigation by the government of the remote archipelago.

Commercial aquaculture is at risk "of fostering future zoonotic pandemics", according to a new report by FAIRR.

At a time when an increasing number of industrial offshore aquaculture designs are being installed in Norway and China, one engineer believes that there’s a lower cost, but more cunning, alternative to the vast steel str…

An autonomous feeding system that decides when and how much to feed farmed fish has been unveiled by CageEye.

Publicly-available data can be a powerful tool for fish farmers, in particular when it comes to tackling sea lice.

Mowi Scotland has become the first aquaculture company in the world to achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its freshwater loch smolt production.

Mowi has recently installed innovative new nets, which are designed to reduce sea lice numbers, at a salmon farm in Argyll.

The $18 billion global salmon farming industry must step up investment in new technology if it to grow in the face of growing environmental and biological constraints.

Nofima has announced plans to expand its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) capacity at its research facilities in both Sunndalsøra and Tromsø.