Institute of Marine Research

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Norwegian food research institute Nofima and the Institute of Marine Research have released two handbooks focused on measuring and monitoring the welfare of salmon during crowding – one tailored for tanks and the other for marine net pens.

6th November 2025

Handbooks on crowding salmon launched by Nofima

6th November 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Annual monitoring confirms that Norwegian farmed fish remains a safe choice, with no harmful substances exceeding EU limit values, that’s according to the latest Institute of Marine Research (IMR) report.

1st September 2025

Norway’s farmed fish gets clean bill of health

1st September 2025

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

The development work behind the flexible grid has been conducted by Egersund Trål and the Institute of Marine Research in a project partly funded by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Research Funding…

19th June 2025

Trialling steel grid to replace flexible excluder

19th June 2025

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The new gear has only a third of the weight of a comparable set of rockhopper gear and as it generates less seabed contact, this is seen as producing less bottom impact…

26th February 2024

Testing gentler ground gear

26th February 2024

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has approved a genetically modified canola oil that can be used in salmon feeds – providing a welcome boost for the industry, which has seen the global…

4th January 2024

New oil approved for Norwegian fish feeds

4th January 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Researchers from Norwegian research institute Møreforsking, in collaboration with cod farmer Ode, have made an important scientific breakthrough, with their recently concluded LuxCod project finding light use can effectively delay the early…

20th June 2023

Farmed cod breakthrough to light the way

20th June 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

By turning off a special gene with the CRISPR method, researchers at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway created the world’s first salmon without reproductive cells with the overriding purpose to…

10th August 2022

GM salmon evaluated

10th August 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Genetics in aquaculture and fisheries offers new approaches to tackling key challenges and improving our understanding of the interactions between genes and the environment

8th June 2022

Genetics – the new frontier

8th June 2022