Trout

GLOBAL - Greece based company Fitco is now offering brass wire and mesh fish farm cages. The strong and durable cages boast low maintenance, low mortality rates and zero escapes.

GLOBAL - Halamid has long been associated with successful biosecurity for freshwater trout and for young salmon during the ground-based freshwater life stages.

NORWAY - Norway exported seafood to the value of NOK 5.7 billion in July 2015. This is an increase of NOK 729 million, or 15 per cent, compared with the same month in 2014. Year-to-date seafood exports currently stand at…

UK - Promising a unique taste of Scotland and inspired by a 300-mile journey through the Highlands, smoked fish producer RR. Spink & Sons has unveiled their new creation - the world's most exclusive trout fillet.

MEXICO - The National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA) has identified 20 million hectares with high potential for aquaculture development.

AUSTRALIA - Petuna Aquaculture Pty. Ltd. is the worlds first marine-farming company to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification for both salmon and trout at the same farm site.

INDIA - Arunachal Pradesh has got immense scope for rainbow trout farming particularly in the district of West Kameng and Tawang, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has said.

CHINA - In the Kumtag desert in Gansu Province, more than 600 tonnes of rainbow trout, a cold-water fish native to North America, are farmed and exported across China every year.

ANALYSIS - A new helpful technical guide has been made available for anyone producing fish feed.

CROATIA - An outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) has been confirmed in a rainbow trout farm in Croatia.

US - All of Clear Springs Foods's domestic rainbow trout farms have now attained Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, making it the worlds first rainbow trout farm to earn BAP certification.

ISRAEL - New research from NRGene, in cooperation with scientists from the US Department of Agricultures (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Illinois, has successfully mapped the complete gen…

RUSSIA - Russian Aquaculture, the largest Russian company in the aquaculture sector and the distribution of chilled and frozen fish and seafood products, saw a net loss in the first quarter of the year of 285 million rub…

NORWAY - A Norwegian seafood and aquaculture firm has hit out at the Norwegian Governments threat to potentially eliminate the current scheme for interregional biomass limits.

NORWAY - Norwegian seafood company Lery Seafood Group saw a drop in operating profit before fair value adjustment of biomass to NOK 404 million in the first quarter of 2015, compared to NOK 550 million in the first quart…

UK - Pollution from historic mining activities in south west England has led to a reduction in genetic diversity of brown trout, according to new research from the University of Exeter.

CANADA - A Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture staff investigation of aquaculture sites affected by a salmon and trout fish kill earlier this year has concluded environmental conditions, not disease, were likely resp…

SCOTLAND, UK - Statistics have been published showing the salmon and sea trout catch in Scotland over the 2014 season, showing that catches continue to fall.

CHILE - The eruption of the Calbuco volcano is estimated to have caused the loss of Atlantic and Coho salmon brood stock and Atlantic salmon and trout smolt and fry farmed by SalmonChile.

ANALYSIS - In this week's news, millions of farmed fish are thought to have been killed due to the recent eruptions of Calbuco volcano, close to Puerto Montt, Chile, last week.