Trout

ECUADOR - The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MAGAP) has developed a project for aquaculture development in Ecuador.

US - Washington State University researchers have documented dramatic differences in the swimming ability of domesticated trout and their wilder relatives.

GLOBAL - The Audit Manual for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council Freshwater Trout Standard was recently approved following pilot audits and a review by ASCs Technical Advisory Group.

US - Speaking at Aquaculture America 2014, Dr Jesse Trushenski, Southern Illinois University, discusses the use of electrosedation as a rested harvest technique for rainbow trout, writes Lucy Towers, …

DENMARK - Seventy-five per cent of antibiotics in Danish fish farms are used to treat fish with enteric redmouth disease. With the help of 3D scans, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have ma…

COLOMBIA - Truchas Belmira S.A.S. is the worlds first rainbow trout processing plant to earn the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification

NORWAY - Austevoll Seafoods reported strong earnings in Q4 2013 due to good prices for Atlantic salmon and trout. The company also had a good fishing season for anchoveta in Peru.

ANALYSIS - In this week's news, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute has discovered a new disease in hatchery rainbow trout, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.

NORWAY - The Norwegian Veterinary Institute has discovered a new disease in hatchery rainbow trout.

NORWAY - The Norwegian ambassador is meeting with Russian veterinary authorities to discuss the fish export situation after Russia halted imports of Norwegian white and pelagic fish that are not from …

CROATIA - An outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis has been reported on a fresh water fish farm in Croatia.

AKVA group and its distributor Sinor AS, have secured a 23,4 MNOK contract with DunAn Longyangxia for delivery of a complete cage farm in a hydro dam reservoir near Xining, central China.

CHILE - During the first nine months of the year, AquaChile Chile reported sales of 88,000 gross tons of salmon and trout and 19,000 of tilapia.

CANADA - AgriMarine Holdings has executed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement with the shareholders of West Coast Fishculture and West Coast Fishculture (WCFC), a British Columbia-based steelhead pr…

POLAND - The European Commission has adopted a Regulation providing for a reduction of the annual salmon quota allocated to Poland in order to recover salmon quota overfished by Polish fishermen in 20…

The detection of pathogens at early stages of infection is a key point for disease control in aquaculture. This work by Dagoberto Seplveda et al, University Catlica de Valparaso, Chile, aims to design…

AUSTRALIA - A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has shown that ocean warming may make some large reef fish feel the same way.

Enteric Redmouth Disease (ERM), caused by Yersinia ruckeri, is one of the most important infectious diseases in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) aquaculture in Europe. More recently, non-motile vac…

CANADA - Following the sale of the feed division EWOS, Cermaq is now a dedicated fish farming company. The company will therefore be changing the name of its farming operations to Cermaq.

FALKLAND ISLANDS - The collaborative expertise from two leading Scottish aquaculture companies has led to the successful completion of a brown trout farm in the Falkland Islands.