Atlantic Salmon

Sea lice may be able to adapt in order to avoid a range of physical barriers that are designed to prevent them from reaching farmed salmon.

Combining the use of innovative technologies and lessons learned from the terrestrial livestock sector will enable huge improvements in the aquaculture indsutry, according to Laurent Genet, chief strategy officer at Nutr…

Scientists have determined that salmon post-smolts tolerate similar levels of ozone in brackish water – which is increasingly used in RAS facilities – as they do in freshwater.

Bluegrove and its subsidiary CageEye AS acquired SEALAB in a bid to enhance their sensor technology capabilities and create an open platform to integrate with other suppliers.

Damage from Storm Ellen has led to a major fish escape on a Mowi site near Campbeltown in Scotland, with almost 50,000 salmon escaping the torn nets.

Mowi ASA has suspended dividends and warns of job cuts by 2024 in today’s second quarter results.

A salmon farm off the Kintyre Penninsula in Scotland is in a precarious position after Storm Ellen dislodged its anchors.

Plans to stock one of the most extraordinary fish farms on the planet have been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Norwegian salmon sector’s capacity has been increased by nearly 30,000 tonnes, following an auction of new permits this week.

Aquafeed manufacturer BioMar increased sales by 9 percent and revenues by 7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2019.

ASC certification has led to a clear improvement in the environmental performance of shrimp farms in Vietnam, as well as salmon farms in Norway, Canada and Chile, according to a new report.

Mowi has recently harvested its first organic salmon in Scotland, following certification of its Loch Ewe site by the Soil Association.

New methods for performing freshwater treatments against sea lice and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in salmon farms have been successfully developed and trialled in Ireland.

Atlantic Sapphire has been forced to initiate an emergency harvest of 200,0000 part-grown salmon from its Florida facility after the fish were thought to be suffering from construction-related stress.

A new technology that is designed to kill Neoparamoeba perurans, the parasite which causes amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic salmon, has been successfully trialled in vitro.

A project that uses environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring to alert salmon farmers to the presence of the parasite Kudoa thyrsites has been awarded funding.

The Scottish salmon farming sector is to review the use of acoustic devices deployed on farms to deter seals.

Mowi, the world's largest salmon farming company, has left the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI), it has been announced today.

A salmon farmer is looking to secure a patent for part of a system he developed in his own living room that is now being rolled out across 90 cages in Scotland and has had a hugely positive impact on gill health.

The Marine Institute’s newly-launched SALMSON smolt project aims to investigate the potential benefits of using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) to help produce larger organic salmon smolts in Ireland.