Salmonids

A new cutting-edge facility designed for recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) trials on coldwater species is now operational in Bergen.

Transgenic-salmon producer AquaBounty has announced plans to raise funds via a share offering.

ASC certification has led to a clear improvement in the environmental performance of shrimp farms in Vietnam, as well as salmon farms in Norway, Canada and Chile, according to a new report.

Mowi has recently harvested its first organic salmon in Scotland, following certification of its Loch Ewe site by the Soil Association.

New methods for performing freshwater treatments against sea lice and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in salmon farms have been successfully developed and trialled in Ireland.

A recently developed on-farm detection kit for piscirickettsiosis (SRS) can confirm the bacteria’s presence within 90 minutes and might help reduce the impact of a disease that costs the Chilean salmon industry $750 mill…

Atlantic Sapphire has been forced to initiate an emergency harvest of 200,0000 part-grown salmon from its Florida facility after the fish were thought to be suffering from construction-related stress.

Gael Force Group, the supplier of products, technology and services to the global finfish aquaculture sector, has announced the launch of a new integrated range of HD camera technology products under their SeaSight brand…

A new technology that is designed to kill Neoparamoeba perurans, the parasite which causes amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic salmon, has been successfully trialled in vitro.

Folium Science has developed a new partnership to extend the application of its “guided biotics” technology to farmed salmon.

Devonian Capital focuses on investing in – and advising on – the establishment and operation of land-based aquaculture projects with a strong technology component. The five-strong team contains an international mixture o…

A ground-breaking carbon recycling project, which aims to produce aquafeed ingredients from waste CO2, has launched today.

A project that uses environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring to alert salmon farmers to the presence of the parasite Kudoa thyrsites has been awarded funding.

The Scottish salmon farming sector is to review the use of acoustic devices deployed on farms to deter seals.

Mowi, the world's largest salmon farming company, has left the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI), it has been announced today.

A salmon farmer is looking to secure a patent for part of a system he developed in his own living room that is now being rolled out across 90 cages in Scotland and has had a hugely positive impact on gill health.

Gaskiya Diagnostics, which develops low-cost and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for aquaculture, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The Marine Institute’s newly-launched SALMSON smolt project aims to investigate the potential benefits of using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) to help produce larger organic salmon smolts in Ireland.

SalMar’s subsidiary Ocean Farming AS has been granted permission to convert the eight development licences it was awarded for its Ocean Farm 1 concept into conventional salmon production licences.

Scottish tech entrepreneurs Chris van der Kuyl and Paddy Burns have invested in Dundee-headquartered aquaculture technology specialist Ace Aquatec.