Salmonids

Bakkafrost has paid £337 million for 77.8 percent of the shares in the Scottish Salmon Company.

STIM (previously Europharma) and MariCal has reached a legal settlement with Cooke Aquaculture over the company´s alleged use of the patented SuperSmolt technology and the case has been dismissed.

BioMar shifts its RAS research focus to feed.

A joint venture to produce sablefish (black cod) and triploid rainbow trout at a former Atlantic salmon production site has been formed by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.

Fears that Scottish salmon fillets will be subject to hefty import tariffs by the US have been allayed, following clarification from the American authorities.

Scotland’s salmon farmers have rejected a proposal by SEPA – Scotland’s environmental regulator - to introduce a limit on the amount of feed they can use at each site.

Oil obtained from a GM strain of canola is due to be commercially available as an alternative to fish oil in aquafeeds next year.

A new means of removing sea lice from salmonids has been launched by Pharmaq in Chile this week.

Following the successful application for a muti-trophic aquaculture installation near the isle of Scalpay, Mowi Scotland has agreed to close its existing salmon site Loch Ewe.

The mass salmon mortalities that took place at a Northern Harvest salmon site in Newfoundland in September have been attributed to unusually high water temperatures.

A coalition of Norwegian fish farmers has formed a new partnership which will ensure that their feeds contain an algal ingredient that will help them improve the sustainability of their salmon production.

A peracetic acid dispenser for trout farms designed by Bosnian trout producer Tropic Ribarstvo has won the inaugural Alltech Coppens Inventor programme.

The Aqua InDepth conference, which opened in Eindhoven today, has welcomed over 200 delegates from 42 countries, to discuss the future of sustainable aquaculture.

Plans to move all salmon production in British Columbia to land-based sites have been hailed as being “highly irresponsible with potentially serious and far-reaching negative consequences for Canadian jobs and the enviro…

The Scottish salmon farming sector may have experienced a significant drop in production in 2018, but the outlook for this year is very positive, according to the industry’s representative body.

A trial of the prototype "Atlantis" submersible salmon farming pen has produced promising results.

Northern Link has today agreed to sell its entire stake in The Scottish Salmon Company to Bakkafrost.

Norway Royal Salmon ASA (NRS) has agreed to sell its southern salmon farming assets to Tombre Fiskeanlegg, Lingalaks and Eidesvik Laks, in a deal worth 1.24 billion kroner (£111 million).

Bakkafrost, the largest producer of farmer salmon in the Faroe Islands, has announced today that it has acquired The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) in a deal worth DKK 4,351 million (£516 million).

Global aquafeed supplier BioMar and French rainbow trout producer Aquadis Naturellement partner to bring farmed fish closer to end consumers. Aquadis Naturellement’s rainbow trout fed with BioMar’s Salvea feeds aim to provide consumers with what they are looking for – a natural and sustainable seafood choice…