Trout

The aquaculture industry is increasingly reliant upon industrially compounded aquafeeds, and the availability of cost-effective feedstuffs is a serious constraint to continued growth within the aquaculture sector, write …

US - A new model that can accurately identify stream sections that still hold suitable habitat for wild brook trout will help fisheries managers from Maine to Georgia find and protect habitat for this fish, which is an e…

Effective bath immunization systems may be very helpful to the salmon industry, particularly during the freshwater growth stages in which vaccination through injection is not possible, write Dr Juan Battaglia Aljaro, Vel…

CROATIA - An outbreak of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) has been detected in Donja Suvaja, Gracac, Zadarska.

CROATIA - There has been a new outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis in farmed rainbow trout.

UK - Sea trout are once again returning to spawn in a large north east stream following huge improvements in water quality and measures to help wildlife.

CANADA - AgriMarine has completed the installation of its proprietary semi-closed containment tank technology at its Steelhead farm in Lois Lake, British Columbia.

NORWAY - Skretting is launching a Premium feed for trout on 1 January 2015. The feed claims to give reduced feed conversion rate, better growth and increased slaughter yield. The anticipation is immense among fish farmer…

Individual differences in moving activity in a novel environment are linked to individual differences in vulnerability to angling, according to an experimental study completed at the University of Eastern Finland and the…

TURKEY - A group of researchers from Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Fisheries in Turkey, have discovered a new trout species.

Research into the use of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) addresses the question of how to achieve profitable production while consistently recycling water and nutrients with minimal fresh water demand and waste p…

GLOBAL - New water treatment technology has been found to reduce successfully the amount of Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria, which causes Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS), in shrimp ponds, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite …

US - After more than 2,000 tests of wild and farmed salmon in Washington and Alaska, scientists have found no evidence of the Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) virus in Pacific waters.

UK - Plans to develop trout farms off the Cornish coast have been dropped.

US - As part of its Maine Headwaters Project, the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) has completed two fish passage projects in the Penobscot watershed and in the East Machias watershed to directly benefit Atlantic salmon,…

US - Organisations in the US have signed an agreement to protect threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead trout in California from the rice pesticide thiobencarb.

NORWAY - Record high sales and prices delivered a good performance for the Norwegian aquaculture industry in 2013, but increased costs reduced profits somewhat.

EU - British Trout Farmers are celebrating a ruling by the EU commission, which prevents Turkish trout farmers export of their product to other EU countries at a subsidised price.

CANADA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has completed a two-year intensive study of wild and enhanced anadromous salmonid in British Columbia (BC) and found no evidence of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) or I…

Proliferative kidney disease is a widespread disease of farmed and wildsalmonid populations in Europe and North America, caused by the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae. Ahmed Abd-Elfattah et al, University…