Atlantic Salmon

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).

Alan Tinch, technical services director in Benchmark's genetics division, explains the company's breeding strategy - including their hopes for applying gene editing techniques - for salmon, shrimp and…

Scottish Sea Farms, one of the country’s leading salmon producers, achieved record spend with local suppliers in 2017.

Marine Harvest Scotland has been granted planning permission to build a new salmon farm off the island of Rum.

Julie Hesketh-Laird is to take over as chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) following the retirement of Scott Landsburgh, who has held the position for nearly 10 years.…

A research project led by Felix Scholz, a veterinarian with The Fish Vet Group (FVG) in Galway, has recorded a pathogenic impact of the microsporidian Tetramicra brevifilum in lumpfish for the first t…

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) has launched a series of three mini films to give an insight into how salmon farming prioritises environmental responsibility to benefit fish health, …

Jeremy Dunn, executive director at the BC Salmon Farmers Association, is leaving the producers’ organisation to join Marine Harvest Canada's Public Affairs division.

Plans to expand Iceland’s salmon farming industry are moving forward, with the delivery of a new 450-tonne capacity AKVA feed barge to the new Icelandic producer Arctic Sea Farm.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has signed a long-term agreement with Hendrix Genetics in a bid to develop its salmon broodstock programme.

Marine Harvest’s Faroese and Irish operations were the global salmon firm’s best financial performers in the final quarter of 2017.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has commissioned Gael Force Group to build a 400 tonnne capacity SeaMate feed barge for its Portree site, with delivery expected later this year.

Steve Bracken, Business Support Manager at Marine Harvest Scotland, has announced he will retire at the end of July, after 41 years’ service to Scottish salmon farming,

Benchmark’s claims that Neptune Pharma executives exploited trade secrets involving Salmosan, a treatment used to combat sea lice by salmon farmers, have been rejected by the Norwegian Court of Appeal…

A new report has concluded that lice emanating from areas of intensive salmon farming are having “a general and pervasive negative effect” on wild salmonid populations in Ireland, Norway and Scotland.…

Marine Harvest Scotland has ordered two innovative new utility vessels from Dutch firm Nauplius Workboats.