Trout

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…

Jan G. Davidsen and his graduate students are spies. They use listening stations and special tags they attach to their subjects to track their movements. They follow their subjects winter and summer, day and night.They a…

UK - The Pickering Fisheries Association has been awarded 1,000 by the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund to protect Pickering Beck river banks from erosion and improve habitat for native brown trout and other fish.

NORWAY - Cermaq ASA achieved a negative EBIT pre fair value and non-recurring items of NOK 39 million in the third quarter of 2014, compared to a positive EBIT of NOK 113 million in the corresponding quarter of 2013. Des…

US - Scientists at the ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit in Aberdeen, Idaho, partnered with Montana Microbial Products LLC (MMP) in Missoula, Montana, have created an enzymatic process that improves the…

Salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis Kryer may affect survival and growth ofanadromous salmonids through physiological stress and/or behavioural changes. Using acoustic telemetry tracking, Karl ystein Gjelland et al, Norw…

ECUADOR - In Papallacta, Napo Province, the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, is running the "Mariculture and fish for aquaculture development in Ecuador" project. The purpose is to improve rainbow trout fry throu…

Two real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assaysunder consideration for deployment to multiple testing laboratories across the USA were evaluated for diagnostic sensitivity and specificity o…

US - A new paper from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Montana State University, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the US Geological Survey looks at the feasibility of electrofishing to selectively re…

NORWAY - Levels of aquaculture pesticides exceed UK environmental quality standards (EQSs) in samples taken from near Norwegian fish farms, a recent study has shown.

Eight laboratories worked collectively to evaluate 4 real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) protocols targeting viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) being considered for deployment to a USA laboratory testing network, write Jan…

US - Each year, the rainbow trout industry suffers significant economic losses due to bacterial cold-water disease, caused by the bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum. The disease also affects salmon and other cold-wat…

POLAND - The International Trout Day on 10 October 2014 will take place during the 39th Trout Breeders Conference.

INDIA - Trout farming is being introduced in the Highlands of the Leh Region to provide livelihood support to tribal populations in this harsh agro-climate.