Trout

Aquaculture trainees Emily Underhill, Derek Ferguson and Emmanuelle Rey have been short-listed for Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS).

Benchmark Genetics strengthens its core aquaculture genetics team by hiring Dr Grazyella Yoshida and Hans Ekvall for its head office in Bergen.

A decision to uphold Cooke Aquaculture Pacific’s permit to farm steelhead instead of Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound has been well received by the local aquaculture industry.

Blue Aqua has announced that it’s looking to develop Singapore’s first high-tech rainbow trout farm as part of a plan to invest SGD $45 million to grow its aquaculture operations.

Researchers from across the globe presented their latest research during the Europe Aquaculture Society (EAS) congress in Madeira, Spain earlier this year. Here’s a look at some of the latest developments in aquaculture …

The legislation relating to the slaughter of farmed fish in the UK has been called into question by an animal protection charity which is now seeking to ensure that the adoption of humane killing techniques becomes manda…

Emerging research shows that keeping rainbow trout under constant light disrupts their body clocks and could leave them more susceptible to parasites.

Finnforel, which curently produces 1,000 tonnes of rainbow trout at an RAS facility in Finland, has announced plans to invest an additional €45 million in the sector.

An aquaponics research project at the Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences in Finland has secured EU funding.

Projects that aim to produce an aquafeed ingredient from hemp and to investigate the use of microalgae in cattle feeds have each landed $10 million in funding from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Scotland’s aquaculture sector harvested 192,129 tonnes of Atlantic salmon in 2020, a 5.8 percent drop from the year before.

Atlantic Sapphire, the world’s flagship land-based salmon farming company, is considering diversifying into rainbow trout production, after reporting losses of $55 million in the first six months of the year.

Jon Parker, development lead for Aquaculture Industry Wales (AIW), explains how the organisation - which is backed by a growing number of startups - aims to improve the industry’s reputation among the public and politici…

Though many leading cell-cultured seafood companies are based in Asia, Dr Sebastian Rakers, co-founder of Bluu Biosciences, believes that European consumers will embrace cell-based seafood due to its enhanced sustainabil…

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz are turning to marine microalga as a potential component of low-polluting aquafeed for farm-raised rainbow trout.

A novel water purification system inspired sewage plants has been shown to be effective at optimising fish waste for use as fertiliser for plants in aquaponics facilities.

Blue Star Foods Corp has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Taste of BC Aquafarms, a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) steelhead farm in British Columbia, and plans to dramatically increase its outpu…

UK seafood businesses are being invited to share their experiences of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic, as a team of researchers seeks to find out how resilient the sector will be to future challenges.

An Italian researcher has landed a bursary to complete his PhD study into red mark syndrome (RMS) in trout.

After a decades-long struggle, US aquaculture producers still don’t have a federally approved organic certification to apply for.