Salmonids

Scottish Sea Farms is looking to trial Scotland’s first open ocean salmon farm as it seeks new locations in which to expand production capacity.

Shares in land-based salmon producer Atlantic Sapphire have plummeted in value by 16 percent in one day, following reports of the loss of 227,000 salmon at its Danish facility over the weekend.

A new study suggests that environmental and dietary changes are the key factors explaining why numerous seemingly healthy farmed salmon die in the run-up to harvest.

Shandong Ocean Oriental sold its land-based salmon farm to Qingdao Guoxin recently at a price of ¥226 million ($32 million).

Trout fed on diets containing algal oil and insect meal are now on sale at French supermarket Auchan.

Land-based salmon producer Atlantic Sapphire is set to receive $5 million in grant funding over the course of the next 10 years.

A land-based coho salmon farming venture in New York state has plans to roll out production across 10 sites in the US.

100,000 salmon have been released in a novel pen designed by Atlantis Subsea Farming, which will keep them at least 30m below the surface of the sea.

A new tool that is designed to give salmon farmers advanced warning about outbreaks of sea lice and pancreas disease (PD) has been launched by Manolin today.

Trout produced by Truite Service fed with a Skretting diet that incorporates algal oil developed by Veramaris arrived on retail shelves in France this week.

Salmon farming in Scotland has achieved its best ever environmental performance, according to statistics collected for SEPA.

Mowi Scotland has reported the death of an unnamed individual following a “workplace incident” at one of its marine sites yesterday.

Benchmark Holdings, the aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business, has raised £43 million, as it seeks to scale up its CleanTreat sea lice treatment system.

A new project from Nofima is attempting to ascertain what water speed in RAS can optimise growth rates without compromising fish welfare.

Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Cooke Aquaculture’s plans to replace Atlantic salmon with steelhead in their cage farms in Washington State.

Scottish salmon exports hit a record high of £618 million in 2019, according to figures published today.

Grieg Newfoundland Salmon (Grieg NL) has announced that it has been acquired by Grieg Seafood ASA, in a deal that could be worth up to could be worth up to 1.55 billion kroner (£130 million).

The Brexit deal being pursued by the UK Government is likely to place “huge unnecessary burdens” on the UK’s biggest food export – Scottish salmon – according to the trade body for the sector.

Researchers in the US have made a discovery which could help the trout farming industry’s battle against the mucosal parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, commonly known as Ich, and other microbial threats to fish healt…

According to a new government report, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign pledge to ban ocean net pen farming in British Columbia faces several challenges.