Fish Health

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Biosort has secured more than NOK 100 million to commercialise its individual-based lice control system for salmon farming.

24th February 2026

Backing secured for lice control scale-up

24th February 2026

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Aquaculture research specialist Onda has expanded its disease challenge platform with two new models targeting Tenacibaculum dicentrarchi and Tenacibaculum finnmarkense – bacterial strains causing serious losses in salmon farming hubs across Chile, Norway, Canada and Northern Europe.

7th October 2025

Onda expands Tenacibaculum study models to bolster aquaculture health research

7th October 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

MSD Animal Health, a division of North American company Merck & Co Inc, has launched a new generation of its Falcon vision technology to help optimise fish health and biomass production through…

20th August 2025

MSD Animal Health unveils next-gen Falcon

20th August 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Aquaculture technology company Ace Aquatec has confirmed that advancements have been made in its AI-powered monitoring and harvesting solutions. These include five species-specific modules for its A-BIOMASS underwater camera for Atlantic salmon,…

19th August 2025

Ace Aquatec advances AI-powered aquaculture monitoring

19th August 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Kjetil Fyrand has moved from Pharmaq and now leads the Fish Health Department at the Norwegian food research institute, Nofima.

20th June 2025

New head appointed for Nofima’s fish health team

20th June 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Canadian contract research organisation Onda has been awarded funding from the Ignition Fund, with a grant to support the development of rapid diagnostic test kits designed to enhance disease detection and management…

16th April 2025

Onda backed to develop rapid diagnostic test kits for aquaculture

16th April 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Investment company Blue Future Holding has acquired the remaining 67.2% of the shares in GreenFox Marine AS, with the goal to expand into new markets and reach further growth. Previously, Blue Future…

16th September 2024

GreenFox Marine acquired by Blue Future Holding

16th September 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Biotech company Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the University of Plymouth in the UK have marked 15 years of collaboration by unveiling a new initiative that aims to enhance fish resilience and welfare.

29th August 2024

New project targets improved aquaculture health and wellbeing

29th August 2024

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Over the last decade, the shrimp farming industry has grown significantly. According to Rabobank, more positive signs could be on the way, with an expected year-on-year production growth of 4.8% in 2024.…

3rd July 2024

Monitoring shrimp – computer vision takes the lead

3rd July 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Net pens, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), flow-through – which blue food farming system is best? According to Ohad Maiman, Managing Partner of land-based focused fund Aquafounders Capital, this is a complicated question…

27th June 2024

Farming seafood on land making a lot more sense

27th June 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has pledged £4.6 million to help make the UK’s aquaculture industry more sustainable.

22nd May 2024

£4.6m boost for UK sustainable aquaculture

22nd May 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Holyrood’s Rural Affairs & Islands (RAI) Committee has launched a follow-up inquiry to ask if recommendations made to the Scottish Government in 2018, to address economic, social and environmental issues related to…

22nd May 2024

Scottish salmon farming inquiry launched

22nd May 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scottish government sees a bright future for aquaculture, but it also recognises that it’s not all plain sailing for the industry, new Minister for Employment & Investment Tom Arthur told attendees at…

14th May 2024

Scottish aquaculture open for business

14th May 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has secured new funding to continue its support of fish health research and development (R&D), delivered in collaboration between the private and public sectors.

14th May 2024

Farmed fish health funding boost for SAIC

14th May 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has launched the final round of its stakeholder consultation to help finalise the content of its new Farm Standard, with stakeholders encouraged to take part before the…

11th April 2024

Feedback sought to finalise new fish farming standard

11th April 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

SalMar has launched an ambitious research and development initiative to help safeguard the future of farmed salmon.

8th March 2024

SalMar launches salmon industry initiative

8th March 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aquaculture R&D company FAI and Ethical Seafood Research (ESR) have joined forces on tilapia welfare in Egypt.

7th March 2024

FAI and ESR team up on tilapia welfare

7th March 2024

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Fish health market leader STIM has been acquired by Summa Equity.

6th March 2024

STIM acquired by equity firm

6th March 2024

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Cermaq, BioSort and Scale AQ’s third version of iFarm has been installed in Norway. This small step could become a giant leap for salmon farming if the technology proves successful.

3rd April 2023

High hopes as iFarm Version 3 gets underway

3rd April 2023