Trout

Whether the UK aquaculture sector is on track to achieve goals set by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA), has been revealed by new figures published last week.

Iranian officials say that the country’s aquaculture output is likely to exceed 1.25 million tonnes in the 12 months up to March 2020 – a figure very similar to that of Norway.

A poster explaining the use of microsatellite markers to assess the survival of brown trout bred for re-stocking purposes has won this year’s Lindsay Laird Award.

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.

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

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.

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…

Female oyster farmers in India and trout farmers in Peru won two of the top three prizes awarded in this year’s Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI) film competition.

The debate over whether brown trout (Salmo trutta) constitute a single species or several may soon be resolved, following the completion of the brown trout reference genome.

A project to develop underwater vision technology for measuring aquaculture broodstock has been launched, following the signing of an agreement between Hendrix Genetics and Plant & Food Research.

New research has demonstrated that rainbow trout fed a diet supplemented with thyme essential oil had improved growth, weight gain, immune response and disease resistance.

A consortium in Scotland is taking a significant step toward the development of a commercial vaccine for rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS) – a pervasive disease among trout.

A surge in the sales of both farmed Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout helped Norway record its best ever six month period for seafood exports.

Claims that "at least 2,500" rainbow trout have escaped from the Dawnfresh-operated farm at Inverawe, in Loch Etive have been made by a conservation group.

The efficacy of a new technology that has the potential to predict the feed conversion rate (FCR) of individual rainbow trout is being tested in a study that could improve the feed conversion efficien…

BioMar has signed an agreement with Minze Long Yang Xia, the largest trout farmer in China, to supply high performance fish feed with almost half the environmental footprint compared to local Chinese …

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…

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

Troutlodge has appointed trout farming stalwart Jon Handley as its area sales manager for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

America’s largest land-based steelhead producer outlines how it has ironed out a number of early production issues as it attempts to reach its 1,200 tonne annual capacity.