Trout

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.…

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

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

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.

Piscifactoria Del Alba, which farms rainbow trout at three freshwater sites, is the first aquaculture producer in Spain to gain Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification.

Biomar has announced plans to establish its first feed factory in Australia, with a yearly capacity of 110,000 tonnes, to help service a range of the countrys aquaculture sectors including salmon, tro…

CHINA - Please join the Global Aquaculture Alliances Best Aquaculture Practices division in welcoming the worlds first BAP-certified crawfish facility to the third-party certification programme, the o…

SWEDEN - Why do trout spend so much time in potentially dangerous estuaries before migrating to sea? In a new thesis published at University Gothenburg, Jeroen Brijs reveals that the answer may lie in…

POLAND - In 2015 the total fish catch for Poland was 180,717 MT, which included the Baltic Sea and long-distance fisheries.

MEXICO - In order to reduce costs in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) production, researchers from the Technological Institute of Tuxtepec (Ittux) have developed an aquaculture feed from the resi…

NORWAY - Entering the last month of 2016, the Norwegian seafood industry year to date exports totalled NOK 83.2 billion. By value this represents an increase of NOK 16 billion compared to the same per…

GLOBAL - Scientists from the University of Glasgow, UK, working with major companies in the aquaculture industry, have discovered a simple test can be used to detect Atlantic salmon infected with salm…