Atlantic Salmon

BioMar shifts its RAS research focus to feed.

Fears that Scottish salmon fillets will be subject to hefty import tariffs by the US have been allayed, following clarification from the American authorities.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have rejected a proposal by SEPA – Scotland’s environmental regulator - to introduce a limit on the amount of feed they can use at each site.

Following the successful application for a muti-trophic aquaculture installation near the isle of Scalpay, Mowi Scotland has agreed to close its existing salmon site Loch Ewe.

The mass salmon mortalities that took place at a Northern Harvest salmon site in Newfoundland in September have been attributed to unusually high water temperatures.

A coalition of Norwegian fish farmers has formed a new partnership which will ensure that their feeds contain an algal ingredient that will help them improve the sustainability of their salmon production.

Plans to move all salmon production in British Columbia to land-based sites have been hailed as being “highly irresponsible with potentially serious and far-reaching negative consequences for Canadian jobs and the enviro…

The Scottish salmon farming sector may have experienced a significant drop in production in 2018, but the outlook for this year is very positive, according to the industry’s representative body.

A trial of the prototype "Atlantis" submersible salmon farming pen has produced promising results.

Northern Link has today agreed to sell its entire stake in The Scottish Salmon Company to Bakkafrost.

Norway Royal Salmon ASA (NRS) has agreed to sell its southern salmon farming assets to Tombre Fiskeanlegg, Lingalaks and Eidesvik Laks, in a deal worth 1.24 billion kroner (£111 million).

Bakkafrost, the largest producer of farmer salmon in the Faroe Islands, has announced today that it has acquired The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) in a deal worth DKK 4,351 million (£516 million).

Now that its new production facility is up and running, Veramaris is reliant on its innovative solution combined with a disruptive marketing strategy to achieve its ambitious goals.

Scottish Sea Farms’ long-standing production director, John Rea, is to step down in early 2020 to take his career in a new direction, the company has announced.

Akvaforsk Genetics and SalmoBreed have merged to establish Benchmark Genetics Norway in a move that aims to strengthen the company’s ability to deliver sustained genetic improvements and support aquaculture producers to …

A cohort study of commercial salmon farms in Norway explores different prevention and treatment strategies for salmon lice and finds that habituated cleaner fish can keep lice at bay despite fluctuations in temperature and wind currents.…

Cooke Inc, the parent company of Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, has announced that it has acquired the former Skretting fish feed mill in Invergordon.

Claims that escaped salmon are able to wipe out “10,000 years of evolution” by interbreeding with wild salmon have been rejected as “hyperbole” by the head of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association.

A Scottish consortium is developing an early-warning detection system for potentially dangerous plankton and algae, which could help the aquaculture industry tackle one of the biggest challenges to fish health.

A new £300,000 study involving University of Stirling experts and a leading animal feed manufacturer is aiming to explore how certain feed ingredients can reduce infections in farmed fish.