Trout

TURKEY - Thanks to a joint venture between the Danish feed company BioMar and Turkish seafood company Sagun, a state-of-the-art fish feed factory has opened in Turkey

CANADA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of Whirling Disease in fish in Johnson Lake in Banff National Park.

KENYA - An outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis has been reported on a Kenyan rainbow trout farm.

PERU - Peruvian Andean Trout SAC has become the worlds first company qualified to offer four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) trout.

UK - Fish in Englands rivers are under threat from warmer waters. Cold-water species such as Atlantic salmon and brown trout, are struggling to cope as climate change brings significant increases in temperature.

UK - For years salmon farming has been the target of environmentalists and angling groups that blame sea lice from the farms as the cause of sea trout population decline. Taking a closer look at the data, Dr Martin Jaffa…

JAPAN - Japan and Russia have agreed on a sharp cut in this years quota for salmon and trout fished by Japanese ships within Russias exclusive economic zone, according to the Japanese Fisheries Agency.

DNA vaccines encoding viral glycoproteins have been very successful for induction of protective immunity against diseases caused by rhabdoviruses in cultured fish species. However, the vaccine concept is based on a singl…

NORWAY - Norway exported seafood worth NOK 21.3 billion in Q1 2016. An increase of 22 per cent or NOK 3.8 billion compared with Q1 2015. For the month of March alone, seafood exports were worth NOK 7.4 billion. This is a…

CROATIA - An outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis has been reported on a rainbow trout farm in Croatia.

SLOVAKIA - An outbreak of Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) has been reported on a Slovakian rainbow trout farm.

US - A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level, and that they can become different with surprising speed.

GERMANY - Heidefisch farm has become the first trout farm in Germany to achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification against the ASC Freshwater Trout Standard.

ANALYSIS - NOAA has filed a final rule which will implement the USs first comprehensive regulatory program for aquaculture in federal waters.

A major European-wide research project is making strong inroads into developing new breeding programmes to improve the stock of six important aquaculture species, writes Chris Harris.

JAPAN - Researchers at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology have come up with a way to produce rainbow trout using sperm production cells extracted from a fish frozen for a year and transplanted into a diffe…

MEXICO - Mexico has recorded increased trout production in 2015. Trout farming is one of the most important activities for the economy and development of rural communities.

US - Results from a 15-year study of factors affecting population levels of Eastern brook trout in the face of climate change show that high summer air temperatures have a large influence, in particular on the smallest f…

SCOTLAND - A rising star in the Scottish culinary scene, Adam Newth has been crowned Sustainable Trout Chef of the Year 2015.

SCOTLAND, UK - Smoked fish experts RR. Spink & Sons has almost finished its search to find Scotlands top trout chef.