Salmonids

The next 18 months are expected to be key for Benchmark Holdings as the group hopes that its wide portfolio of investments will finally begin to generate returns for its investors.

A project that has improved the breeding of six key European fish species is coming to an end this month.

A feed barge at a Mowi salmon site off the coast of South Uist has sunk after taking on water.

Mowi harvested 106,000 tonnes of salmon in the final quarter of last year, with its divisions in Norway, Ireland and Scotland proving the most profitable per kilo.

Salmon sellers must market their products as being “the leading healthy and sustainable protein and move away from being a ‘luxury’ product” if they want to continue to achieve high prices.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) is showcasing its fresh and smoked Lochlander and Native Hebridean salmon brands at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco this week.

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) has joined leading bodies in Scotland’s food and farming sector to call on Westminster to unite to reject a ‘No Deal’ Brexit.

In the fourth installment of the series, Mowi (formerly known as Marine Harvest) farm technician Clara McGhee discusses her fish farm's integral place in a small island community.

Although farmed salmon doesn’t contain antibiotics when sold, the salmon farming sector - particularly in Chile - may be contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to a leading marine NGO.

Funding worth £3.5 million has been set aside for initiatives to improve gill health and resilience among farmed Atlantic salmon – one of the industry’s most significant challenges – under the guidanc…

BioMar has promoted two long-serving employees to executive roles within its salmon division.

After 45 years in aquaculture, recently retired BioMar feed executive Niels Alsted speaks to The Fish Site about evolution of the aquaculture industry, the advantages of RAS and why insects are likely…

Aquaculture accounted for 72 percent of the record 99 billion kroner of seafood exports achieved by Norway in 2018, despite making up only 40.5 percent of the volume.

Ensuring the improved performance of barrier tissues - such as skin - in smolts at the time of seawater transfer could improve fish health and save the aquaculture industry millions, according to new …

The emeritus professor of functional ecology at the University of Glasgow, who is one of the world’s preeminent experts on fish behaviour, discusses salmon welfare, nesting sticklebacks… and a near de…

Nordlaks is ordering its second LNG / battery hybrid wellboat as it continues to roll out a programme to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide nitrogen oxides.

Aquaculture and environmental consultants Jonah van Beijnen and Gregg Yan outline some of the key developments they expect to take place in the Asian aquaculture sector in the year ahead.

The Norwegian salmon sector purchased 34.9 million doses of salmon vaccines in November – up from 33.0 million in the same month last year.

The Canadian government has been called upon to “to designate an agency that formally has the mandate to support the growth of the seafood farming sector.”

At least 10 of the 17 salmon farms currently operational in the Broughton Archipelago area of British Columbia (BC) are going to be shut down, following an agreement designed to protect wild salmon st…