Salmonids

Chile’s largest salmon producer, AquaChile, has set aside its Alab molecular biology laboratory for coronavirus testing.

Pure Salmon has received Ocean Wise endorsement for its land-based facility in Poland.

Havfarm 1, a structure that has the capacity to hold 10,000 tonnes of salmon, has recently been launched at Yantai shipyard in China.

Scotland’s salmon farming sector has welcomed the temporary regulatory flexibility agreed with SEPA and Marine Scotland to help manage the impacts of reduced staff availability and disruption to processing and retail dis…

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation has issued a statement outlining their strategies to balance safety, public health and customer needs.

Salmon Evolution, the company planning Norway’s largest land-based salmon farm, has raised an additional 258 million kroner (£19.6m), as they seek to begin the first phase of construction.

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) is seeking clarification on which employees are to be classified as “key workers” at a time when people in these roles are being provided with childcare during the corona…

How the addition of OptiPhos, a phytase enzyme, to extruded feed can significantly reduce emissions of phosphorous from the aquaculture sector.

The SSPO has had to postpone a ground-breaking public engagement initiative which was to see 64 tours take place across 16 salmon farms this May.

Scotland’s salmon producers are working hard to ensure a steady supply of salmon for the UK market, at a time when consumers are desperately trying to stock up on sufficient household supplies in the face of increasing m…

Problems with sea lice in salmon farms are making it increasingly cost-effective to on-grow smolts past 100g in land-based systems, according to a new study.

Grieg Seafood has released a statement on the impact that the coronavirus is having on the company so far, emphasising that “operations are currently, in light of the circumstances, running as normal”.

8F Asset Management has announced that it has raised $358.8 million – enough to finance the construction of Pure Salmon’s RAS facilities in Poland, Japan, France and US.

Export difficulties caused by concerns over coronavirus have been partially alleviated by growing domestic demand, as UK consumers seek to stockpile goods, according to a representative of the salmon sector.

AquaBounty CEO Sylvia Wulf is looking forward to the company's first harvest of US-growth transgenic salmon after a “transformative year”, despite net losses increasing from $10.4 to $13.2 million.

BioMar is challenging a decision by an Olso court to fine it 16.5 million kroner, plus costs, for infringement of a patent held by STIM (formerly Europharma) relating to its SuperSmolt technology.

New research suggests that cleaner fish are nine times less effective at removing sea lice from salmon in pens surrounded by lice skirts, possibly due to the increased depth the salmon swim at in such pens.

Scotland's salmon farming sector had an average monthly survival rate of 98.60 per cent during 2019, according to the latest figures.

Cooke Aquaculture has not abandoned plans establish a steelhead site in Washington State, despite a court ruling against them last week.

Hatch has appointed Tanja Hoel, the founder of Norway's Seafood Innovation Cluster, as their new innovation manager, as they seek to strengthen their ties to Norway's salmon farming sector.