Trout

FINLAND - According to recent electrofishing surveys by the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, the status of sea trout is critically endangered and very few juveniles were found in the Gul…

CANADA - A new study has identified how personality influences rainbow trout's memory window.

NORWAY - The value of Norwegian seafood exports in September totalled NOK 4.1 billion. This is a reduction of 19 per cent or NOK 969 million compared to the same month last year. This year to date the…

ITALY - Family owned Astro farming sites passed renewal audit for the Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and the Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) production c…

IRELAND - Sea trout were top of the agenda at a recent meeting between Minister Alun Davies from Wales and Minister Fergus ODowd held in Dail Eireann, Dublin. Both ministers were briefed about progres…

The annual production survey of fish farms in Scotland for 2011 was carried out by Marine Scotland Science (MSS). This survey collates annual production data from Scottish fin fish farm sites operated…

GLOBAL - Climate change, pollution, the extraction of water for irrigation and overfishing all threaten the survival of the common trout. This fish is very sensitive to changes in its environment and,…

FINLAND - This year, IPN - infectious pancreatic necrosis - virus has been identified in five different fish farms in Finnish inland waters.

Researchers based in Norway have successfully fractionated wheat distillers dried grains and solubles (WDDGS) to improve its nutritional value for rainbow trout.

NORWAY - In the second quarter of 2012, Lery Seafood Group had a turnover of NOK 2,306 million, which is on the same level as the second quarter of 2011, when turnover was NOK 2,397 million.

NORWAY - Norway has regained its free status for the fish disease Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (VHS).

MEXICO - According to the CONAPESCA 2011 Aquaculture Production report, shrimp and tilapia together amounted to 180,950 tonnes, followed by oysters, carp, trout, tuna, catfish, chub and bass, among ot…

There have been an increasing number of infections in fish associated with different species of Chryseobacterium, being considered potentially emerging pathogens. Nevertheless the knowledge of the di…

It is widely understood that each fish species has an optimum temperature range and will lose appetite and grow more slowly when water temperatures go much above that range. Until recently the physica…

UK and AUSTRALIA - Widespread skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild marine fish populations, new research has shown.

CHILE - Chile has begun to export rainbow trout eggs to the European Union from one of the farms included in disease control programmes of the National Fisheries Service (Sernapesca).

FINLAND - In July, the IPN disease (infectious pancreatic necrosis) was detected in two inland water fish farms located in the river basins of Kymijoki and Vuoksi.

MEXICO - In the future, aquaculture will contribute most to the production of seafood, said the Director General of the Institute National Fishing (INAPESCA), Raul Romo Adam Trujillo, who noted that i…

CHINA and US - The China National Fishery Technical Extension Centre Delegation, a group representing provincial aquaculture interests in China, began a United States Soybean Export Council sponsored …

AUSTRALIA - Fishermen say alarm bells are ringing after the fleet managed only 60 per cent of its coral trout quota this season.