Industry News

Students on the National Progression Award (NPA) in Aquaculture at Campbeltown Grammar have been given workshops by experts from the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC).

The Spencer Gulf prawn fishing industry and State Government researchers are collaborating on a prawn tagging study to improve understanding of growth and movement patterns of prawns in southern Spencer Gulf.

Fish receiver inspections in Tasmania, Australia, have shown generally high compliance rates.

The South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA) has received an Australian Government ‘Caring for our Country’ grant of $360,000 to develop and test devices and techniques to protect seabirds in the…

Celebrity chef, Raymond Blanc OBE, has turned fish detective for a new series of short animations about the importance of sustainable fish and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label.

The Chilean mussel fishery and suspended culture has become the first Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fishery in Chile.

“Ground-breaking” scientific work is set to improve efforts to develop robust, disease-resistant, farmed salmon.

UK fishermen are taking a battering by the countrys “exceptional” winter, which according to the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) is affecting around 4,000 fishermen with losses running into millions of…

Sablefish Canada Inc is launching its acclaimed Kyuquot Sound Black Cod into restaurants and high-end retail in Europe.

A new report predicts that aquaculture will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030, as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging…

The European Commission (EC) has begun a five-year long project, ‘Diversify’, to identify a number of new and emerging finfish species that have the potential to expand the EU aquaculture industry.

Denmark headquartered MacArtney has supplied a major consignment of high performance oceanographic winches to JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency of Marine-Earth-Science and Technology.

Researchers at Swansea University are developing a means of restoring endangered seagrass meadows in the UK by growing mats of these marine plants to replace previously damaged habitat.

The Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) is predicting that sales of Scottish mussels will double in the run-up to Valentine’s Day on Friday.

Nutreco is looking to drive sustainable growth and expand its operations in Latin America, Russia, Asia and Africa after reporting solid results in 2013.