Salmonids

Publicly-available data can be a powerful tool for fish farmers, in particular when it comes to tackling sea lice.

Mowi Scotland has become the first aquaculture company in the world to achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its freshwater loch smolt production.

Mowi has recently installed innovative new nets, which are designed to reduce sea lice numbers, at a salmon farm in Argyll.

Growth hormone transgenic Coho salmon exhibit significantly greater growth rates than selectively bred Coho salmon, in a variety of production conditions and experimental designs, according to emerging research from the Pacific Science Enterprise Centre. …

The $18 billion global salmon farming industry must step up investment in new technology if it to grow in the face of growing environmental and biological constraints.

CageEye has joined a cluster of companies offering innovative aquaculture products and services to the Chilean fish farming sector.

The results of two-year study designed to identify and strengthen best practices for animal welfare in aquaculture has been published by The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) today.

Nofima has announced plans to expand its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) capacity at its research facilities in both Sunndalsøra and Tromsø.

A breeding programme based on genomic selection has more than doubled the survival rates of rainbow trout that are exposed to bacterial cold water disease (BCWD).

A strain of rainbow trout that is 10-15 percent more feed efficient is being developed by researchers at the University of Idaho.

A new guide to help trout farmers assess the health and welfare of their stocks has been just been published in both English and Norwegian.

The Scottish salmon sector is calling on governmental support to improve market access, following a significant downturn in export sales caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

An innovative new treatment method to control sea lice using sound waves has received six-figure funding.

The use of antibiotics in the global salmon sector has halved over the course of the last seven years, due to improvements in antibiotics stewardship, disease control and fish welfare, according to a new report.

Recent work on the impact of climate change on Norway's salmon sector, led by researchers at Nofima, may help both the Norwegian sector, and the wider aquaculture industry, prepare for the numerous climate change-related…

An Australian company is currently looking for investors into a $65 million RAS system that will be capable of producing up to 2,400 tonnes of barramundi and steelhead a year.

Adding krill meal to the finishing diets of farmed Atlantic salmon improves both their welfare and their fillet quality according to new research.

A new feed mill jointly owned and operated by BioMar and Tongwei has now begun commercial production of feeds for the aquaculture industry.

AquaBounty has announced plans to begin construction of a third land-based farm for its transgenic salmon, despite posting further losses in the first quarter of 2020.

Whether the upswing in salmon sales in supermarkets during the Covid-19 pandemic will be maintained once restaurants reopen is the subject of debate among salmon producers.