Trout

A drop in the overall value of salmon exports compared to February last year, was partly to blame for an 8 percent decrease in the export value of Norwegian seafood last month.

The total value of Norwegian salmon exports last month were the same as in January 2017, despite a 23 percent increase in volumes, due to the average price per kilo falling by almost NOK 15 (£1.40).

Dawnfresh Farming, Scotland’s largest trout producer, saw losses increase to over £1 million in the year ending 31 March 2017.

Russian Aquaculture has raised RUB 1 billion (£12.7 million) in order to help it achieve its aims to increase its salmon and trout production to over 25,000 tonnes a year.

Norwegian salmon exports in the first 11 months of the year totalled 909,000 tonnes, worth NOK 59 billion – an increase of 2 per cent and 7 per cent in terms of volume and value respectively.

Scotland’s leading salmon and trout producers have united in a bid to extend the usage and efficacy of two of the most environmentally-friendly sea lice treatments currently available.

Love The Wild’s range of freshly frozen seafood kits, which feature responsibly farmed salmon, trout and striped bass, are now available in over 420 Whole Foods Markets across the United States.

Shares in Russian Aquaculture are now on sale, as the country’s largest aquaculture company seeks to raise RUB 2 billion (£12.6 million).

In the first installment of a new series of articles by members of the Fish Vet Group’s team of global fish health specialists, Virginia Iglesias looks at the health challenges posed by RTFS.

China's Guangdong Evergreen Feed Industry Co has been named the winner of a 16-month contest to develop and sell the most fish-free feed for aquaculture.

Health issues, leading to early harvests, caused Scottish salmon production levels fell by 5.2 percent last year, to a total of 162,817 tonnes, according to figures released by Marine Scotland Science…

AquaGen has entered into an agreement to purchase 51% of the Danish breeding company AquaSearch ova, one of the world's leading suppliers of genetics for the portion-size trout market.

Russia’s leading farmed salmonid producer, Russian Aquaculture, has reported commercial fish production of some 8,400 tonnes in the first half of 2017, a 664% increase compared to the 1,100 tonnes it …

Aquaculture industry players from Russia’s Karelia and Leningrad regions, in the northwest of the country, have reported an increase in trout production.

A new feed mill has been opened in Russia’s Karelia region in a move that will help boost the region’s aquaculture industry, according to senior state officials.

Iranian trout production is set to surge.

Interbreeding between between native cutthroat trout and invasive rainbow trout is increasing across the northern Rocky Mountains, according to a recent study by the US Geological Survey and partners.…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved the use of mechanically-extracted camelina oil as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon and trout.

Work on a new 37-acre plant that will produce 200,000 tonnes of Calystas FeedKind protein for the aquafeed industry began this week.

PRFoods, which is engaged in fish processing in Finland and Estonia as well as fish farming in Sweden and Finland, has reported a 3.2% sales increase in the first quarter of the year.