Salmonids

At a time when an increasing number of industrial offshore aquaculture designs are being installed in Norway and China, one engineer believes that there’s a lower cost, but more cunning, alternative to the vast steel structures that are currently being produce…

Growth hormone transgenic Coho salmon exhibit significantly greater growth rates than selectively bred Coho salmon, in a variety of production conditions and experimental designs, according to emerging research from the Pacific Science Enterprise Centre.

Recent work on the impact of climate change on Norway's salmon sector, led by researchers at Nofima, may help both the Norwegian sector, and the wider aquaculture industry, prepare for the numerous climate change-related challenges it faces.

The global salmon sector is suffering from a rising discrepancy between the projected and actual harvests and producers can’t afford to be complacent about their ability to fulfil global demand for salmon.

The salmon and shrimp sectors have been affected very differently by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Gorjan Nikolik, senior seafood analyst at Rabobank.