Salmonids

Increasing consumer awareness to unsustainable aquaculture practices have made the prospect of organic aquaculture both environmentally and economically fruitful, but strict standards make this goal difficult to achieve. As the US considers by-passing this obs…

November 2008

Removing Klamath Dams in the Name of Salmon

Sustainability

13 November 2008

October 2008

Why Salmon Survive Hydroelectric Dams?

Sustainability

28 October 2008

Welfare of Farmed Fish

Health Welfare

22 October 2008

Farmed fish are contained - in ponds, tanks or cages - as with all farmed animals. According to a report published by Consenus, just as in land-based farming, farm managers increasingly choose stocking densities and handling practices that optimize growth and …

April 2008

Eat Salmon, It's Good For You , Says Health Agency

Marketing Food safety & handling

30 April 2008 Sponsored

Current Research on PKD at Stirling

Health

25 April 2008

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) caused byTetracapsuloides bryosalmonae continues to bea major constraint on the rainbow trout industryin Western Europe and North America, writes David J. Morris, Charles McGurk and Gareth Butterfield of the Institute of Aqua…

February 2008

US Annual Trout Production for 2007

Economics

29 February 2008

By the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This annual report contains the number of trout operations, grower sales, and fish losses for selected states; includes number, weight, and value produced by type (foodsize, stocker, fingerlings), …

December 2007

Step by Step Guide to a Marine Water Parasite Prevention Plan (PPP)

Health Biosecurity

7 December 2007 Sponsored

This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites, write Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore.

November 2007

EU Salmon Demand

Economics

30 November 2007

Report prepared by Camillo Catarci - FAO Globefish 2007. EU demand for salmon, albeit increasing, continues to be insufficient to cover rising supplies of farmed products.

Fish exports plunge 24pc in July-Sept

14 November 2007

RM2.5 billion from aquaculture output by 2010

13 November 2007

Disease wipes out oyster beds

13 November 2007

Tassie toughens law to contain abalone threat

13 November 2007

AQUAFLOR Approved for Controlling Mortality Due to Furunculosis in Freshwater-Reared Salmonids

Health Post-harvest

6 November 2007

October 2007

Fish fingerprints: DNA screening tracks and monitors offenders

Environment

12 October 2007

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSite Editor. With reports of a significant escape of farmed salmon in Scotland's West Loch, Roag, hitting the headlines recently, the debate about the potential damage that escaped farmed fish can do to wild stocks has returned with veng…

September 2007

Trout Market Report - August 2007

Economics

2 September 2007

By Nicky Holmyard, FAO Globefish. Peruvian trout producers are set to benefit from a new FAO-funded project that will introduce a management and policy alignment tool to help rationalise and develop the entire aquaculture sector.

April 2007

Mucous and a multi-factorial approach: The key to disease control post-malachite

Health

30 April 2007 Sponsored

By Dave Cox, Fish Vet Group - Malachite green was something of a cure all for farmed fish. Used successfully for preventing and treating fungal infections and ectoparasites, such as those causing white spot disease, it was also effective in controlling interna…

The Future of Salmon Aquaculture in North America

Economics

16 April 2007

By Gunnar Knapp, Cathy A. Roheim, James L. Anderson and extracted from The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC

International Co-operation to Further Knowledge and Understanding of Salmonid Alphaviruses

Health Post-harvest

15 April 2007 Sponsored

March 2007

New in-feed antibiotic approved for freshwater-reared Salmonids

Nutrition Health

29 March 2007

Assessment of the risk of invasion of national forest streams in the Pacific Northwest by farmed Atlantic salmon

Health

16 March 2007

By Peter A. Bisson, Research Fish Biologist, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USA and published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

US Annual Trout Production for 2006

Economics

12 March 2007

By the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service - This full-text annual report contains the number of trout operations, grower sales, and fish losses for selected states; includes number, weight, and value produced by type (foodsize, stocker, fingerling…

The World Salmon Farming Industry

Economics

9 March 2007

By Gunnar Knapp, Cathy A. Roheim, James L. Anderson and extracted from The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC

December 2006

Fish and DNA chips

Biosecurity

4 December 2006

By Prof Alan Teale, University of Stirling; Prof Chris Secombes, University of Aberdeen and Dr Glen Sweeney, Cardiff University and published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) - Research carried out under BBSRC's ExploitingG…

November 2006

Epizootics of fish - Wild and Farmed

Health

20 November 2006

By Martin Krkosek, Mark A. Lewis, Alexandra Morton, L. Neil Frazer, and John P. Volpe - The continuing decline of ocean fisheries and rise of global fish consumption has driven aquaculture growth by 10% annually over the last decade.

Farmed vs Wild Salmon? - A comparison

Economics

13 November 2006

By David Cox, the Fish Vet Group - "You don't want to eat that - it's farmed!! How often have we heard that phrase? So-called discerning gourmets pontificating on the relative demerits, rarely (if ever) merits of farmed salmon versus the real thing.