Trout

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

CHILE - In the first half of 2014, AquaChile recorded an EBITDA of $54 million. Sales in the first half totaled $398 million, representing an increase of 16 per cent over the same period last year.

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.

UK and US - Two world leading aquaculture companies have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to significantly extend their global share of the Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout markets.

ANALYSIS - In this week's news, the National Director of Sernapesca, Jos Miguel Burgos, has revealed that a new trout disease has been discovered in Chile, writes Lucy Towers TheFishSite Editor.

CHILE - The National Director of Sernapesca, Jos Miguel Burgos, has presented the Marine Centers Health Report, for the first half of 2014. Although the report shows that fish health is under control, a new disease of tr…

AUSTRALIA - In a world first, researchers at The University of Western Australia and Western Australias Department of Fisheries have bred one of Australias rarest fish the critically endangered Western Trout Minnow.

RUSSIA - Russia has amended its list of fishery and agricultural products that have been banned for one year from the EU, US, Australia, Canada and Norway.