Atlantic Salmon

Plans for Scotland’s first semi-closed containment marine finfish farm have taken a further step forward, after the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) granted an environmental permit for the farm.

Aquaculture data services company Manolin* has upgraded its platform to include PCR test result information from Patogen, environmental monitoring from Meox, and farm production data from Cognite - giving customers previ…

Salmon Scotland, a trade organisation representing the Scottish salmon farming sector, has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands over the Crown Estate Scotland's (CES) announcement of significant…

Genetic selection could hold the key to improving feed conversion ratios (FCRs) by allowing salmon farmers to select fish that grow well with fewer feed inputs.

Benchmark Genetics strengthens its core aquaculture genetics team by hiring Dr Grazyella Yoshida and Hans Ekvall for its head office in Bergen.

Cermaq Canada has reportedly slashed over 76,000 kg of CO2 emissions from their operations last year after adopting a new aeration technology from Poseidon Ocean Systems.

Researchers have demonstrated that omega-3 fatty acid DHA can limit the synthesis of melanin, a pigment that creates unwanted dark spots in farmed salmon fillets.

Mowi Canada West has made what it describes as a difficult decision to permanently close its fish processing plant in Surrey, British Columbia (BC) – “a direct result of the Liberal Government’s decision on 17 December 2…

A decision to uphold Cooke Aquaculture Pacific’s permit to farm steelhead instead of Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound has been well received by the local aquaculture industry.

A short-term cod feeding trial indicates that the quality of wild fish around aquaculture sites is not harmed if they eat salmon pellets.

Cermaq AS and Benchmark Animal Health are partnering to develop a Tenacibaculum vaccine to address health and welfare challenges in farmed Atlantic salmon.

A Norwegian company is looking to develop deep geothermal energy projects in order to make land-based aquaculture facilities more sustainable.

Offshore salmon farming pioneer SalMar Aker Ocean has hired Roy Reite as CEO.

Plans to pre-empt and avoid health challenges that may result from climate change and growth in the farming of cod, salmon and lumpfish are currently being developed by Nofima.

A blind taste test conducted by the University of Copenhagen shows that Danes prefer the taste of both conventionally and organically farmed smoked salmon over wild-caught – as long as they don’t know how it’s produced.

A novel high-tech method for scanning salmon fillets for defects at industrial speed is now being used by Mowi UK.

Some salmon producers may keep their cages fully submerged to keep sea lice at bay, but results from a recent trial suggest that while this reduces lice infestations, it is detrimental to salmon welfare and production go…

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has published its first ever aquaculture overview, a document that covers the Norwegian Sea ecoregion.

Norwegian researchers have successfully tested an alternative method for inserting PIT tags in salmon, which would enable them to be used for research in commercial salmon farms.

Hiddenfjord, the family-owned salmon producer in the Faroe Islands, has won a 2021 SEAL Business Sustainability Award.