Salmonids

The company aims to commercialise wood-to-food technology in the next three years.

The Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Plan (IMIP) establishes a formal process for First Nations oversight of fish farms operating in the Territories of the ‘Namgis, Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis, and …

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 aquac…

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.

Like many of the world’s great initiatives, Montana Microbial Products (MMP), one of the most promising of a clutch of recent start-ups to focus on the aquafeed sector, began in time-honoured fashion …

The aquafeed industry needs to “think out of the box to find growth,” according to a new report, How to Succeed in Aqua Feed, which has been published by Rabobank today.

Bacteriophages offer a novel sustainable alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture, according to Proteon Pharmaceuticals – a start-up that’s looking to break into the commercial aquaculture…

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 Associat…

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 fi…

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.

A company that uses a pioneering egg-sorting system to guarantee at least a five percent improvement in growth rates, as well as improvements in feed efficiency, across a range of species has announce…

One of Scotland’s leading salmon farmers is encouraging locals to join them to collect shoreline litter as part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean which takes place on …

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has been shortlisted in four categories at the Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards (HIFAD).

Three new viruses – including one type that has never previously infected fish – have been identified in populations of both wild and farmed salmon off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Whole Oceans has received approval for its plans to build a land-based salmon farm on the site of a former paper mill in Bucksport, Maine.

Salmon farming companies dominated the top 10 of this year’s Coller FAIRR Protein Index, which ranks the sustainability standards of 60 of the world’s largest publicly-listed protein producers.

Female oyster farmers in India and trout farmers in Peru won two of the top three prizes awarded in this year’s Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI) film competition.