Salmonids

Scottish farmed salmon has reclaimed the top spot as the UK's largest food export.

French retailer Supermarché Match has started to sell salmon fed with Veramaris’ innovative natural marine algal oil.

Friends of the Earth and Center for Food Safety have formally accused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of violating the Endangered Species Act for funding “an industrial ocea…

Today the Scottish government announced plans to introduce legislation to make the weekly reporting of sea lice data statutory, one week in arrears, in a move that has been welcomed by the SSPO.

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business, has announced plans to use the Nordic investor network to help it refinance its existing $90 million credit facility.

This week, over 70 scientists and industry professionals from 16 countries gather in Tromsø, Norway to launch the EU funded AquaVitae project.

The capacity of Scotland’s salmon farming sector is set to increase by over 1,600 tonnes following the news that Scottish Sea Farms has been given the approval for a new site off the small Orcadian is…

FishGLOBE v5, a ground-breaking floating post-smolt production unit, is one step closer to commercial launch.

Benchmark has been given the opportunity to take sole control of the salmon breeding operation in Chile that it currently jointly owns with Agrosuper.

A record number of applications have been made for this year’s Nor-Fishing Innovation Award.

A map that allows fish farmers to monitor the impact of the algal bloom in Troms and Nordland has been launched by Manolin this week.

Benchmark's SalmoBreed Salten hatchery had its official opening under cloudless Arctic skies on 22 May.

Around eight million farmed salmon are thought to have been killed by a recent algal bloom in Norway.

Mowi has announced a €23 million plan to rebuild its smokery in Landivisiau, France, which burnt down in July 2018.

Benchmark’s state-of-the-art egg production unit opened to much fanfare at Salten today.

Mowi farm technician Clara McGhee notes how incremental environmental changes - as can be observed on a seasonal basis from a salmon farm - are also having a wider, and more worrying, impact on the he…

Scotland’s salmon farmers have denied any wrongdoing despite allegations made on a Panorama investigation, which was aired on BBC 1 last night.

Strong performances of its operations in Iceland and northern Norway have helped Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) record an operational EBIT of NOK 22.42 per kilo for the first quarter 2019 – up from NOK 18.…

Alistair Erskine, a Scottish seafood industry expert, is taking over as Chairman of Loch Duart, the salmon farming business based in Sutherland and the Uists.

With Russia’s domestic fish market getting back on its feet, a martial-arts billionaire is throwing his weight behind RAS trout production.