Aquaculture

A new selective breeding method is being developed by a Scottish research consortium that could enhance fish health and well-being by improving salmon resistance to sea lice.

In co-operation with partners at engineering company Techano AS, Naust Marine is fabricating and delivering electrical systems to the Arctic Offshore Fish Farming project off the coast of Tromsø in Norway.

Scottish Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing has paid tribute to Scotland’s fish farming workers for ensuring the supply of fresh salmon, trout and shellfish continues to reach UK supermarkets.

After having its trawl door production at Plunge in Lithuania for the last seven years, the company last year began expanding its facilities there to include aquaculture net production.

Japan has lifted the inspection order for Indian Black Tiger shrimps after export consignments were found to be free of any residue of the anti-bacterial drug furazolidone. 

Simple tweaks in protocols at the mangrove crab hatchery of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in the Philippines have led to a significant boost in crablet production, with…

Animal nutrition firm Biomin has recently announced two winners of the Biomin Aquaculture Sustainability Scholarship Award.

The Tersan Shipyard has awarded Hydroniq Coolers a contract to deliver its Pleat seawater coolers to a wellboat the yard is building for Norwegian salmon producer Nordlaks AS.

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) is seeking clarification on which workers are to be classified as ‘key workers’ under the UK’s new lockdown measures announced last night in response to the…

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) has postponed a new public engagement initiative in an effort to help halt the spread of COVID-19.

A report concerning a recent lawsuit filed in the state of Washington’s King County Superior Court paints a false portrait of aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest, according to Innovasea’s Senior VP of…

Biomar Norway will appeal a court’s decision that it infringed a smoltification patent on the basis that a patent shouldn’t exist for the methodology concerned.

Annual figures published by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) show that the sector had an average monthly survival rate of 98.60% for 2019, a slight reduction from the previous years figure…

After 30 years of working with local trout producers at Lake Arapa, in the Andean highlands, with a strong focus on sustainable development and organic production, Peruvian company Truchas Arapa now aims…

Scottish Sea Farms is looking to trial Scotland’s first open ocean farm; the next step in the company’s ongoing push to maximise fish survival and minimise environmental footprint.

To help simplify and improve local navigation markings, Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), in association with the Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL), has launched a new standard operating procedure.

Norwegian cod-farming venture Norcod has successfully raised new investment totalling NOK105m in its journey to become the worlds leading producer of responsibly farmed cod.

Five Ecuadorian shrimp farms are the latest to join the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP).