Salmon Farming

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Canadian salmon farmers are urging Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray to renew British Columbia’s open net licences and thereby help drive the country’s blue economy innovation.

14th March 2022

Canada salmon licence calls

14th March 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Boston, US-headquartered aquaculture tech company Innovasea has begun installing a complete real-time environmental monitoring system at Grieg Seafood’s new remote Red Island salmon farming site in Newfoundland on Canada’s Placentia Bay.

11th March 2022

Real-time farm monitoring

11th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Danish land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire has appointed Jon-Birger Løvik as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).

9th March 2022

Atlantic Sapphire new COO

9th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scotland’s salmon farming sector is helping save lives by installing defibrillators in local communities where companies operate.

9th March 2022

Defibrillator rollout

9th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-based Proximar Seafood AS, which plans to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility producing Atlantic salmon in Oyama town at the foot of Mt Fuji in Japan, has signed a…

8th March 2022

Proximar installation deal

8th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aquaculture feed company BioMar has significantly scaled-up the inclusion of microalgae in the raw material portfolio of its production facility in Brande, Denmark, to the point that it no longer regards it…

22nd February 2022

Championing microalgae

22nd February 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian land-based aquaculture company Andfjord Salmon AS has welcomed new strategic investment from both Nutreco and Holmøy Group as part of a NOK 38 million (US$4.3 million) private placement. At the same…

18th February 2022

Andfjord Salmon buy in

18th February 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Russia has targeted a dramatic increase in its fish farming output over the next decade, with authorities believing this ambition will be best realised through localised aquafeed and broodstock production and by…

14th February 2022

RAS for Russia

14th February 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian land-based salmon farmer Salmon Evolution AS is just weeks away from releasing the first smolt into the fish tanks at its Indre Harøy facility on the west coast of the country,…

11th February 2022

Salmon Evolution release

11th February 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian land-based salmon farmer Salmon Evolution AS has entered into a Heads of Terms with Artec Aqua for the planning of the phase 2 build-out at its Indre Harøy facility on the…

8th February 2022

Salmon Evolution phase 2

8th February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

The farming application – to be part of its existing operational facilities – is for a total 2,200 tonnes of post-smolt and applied salmon production. BioFish also recently confirmed the receipt of…

4th February 2022

BioFish submits salmon request

4th February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company AquaBounty Technologies Inc has begun site preparations for the construction of its planned 10,000-tonne recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio.

3rd February 2022

AquaBounty readies Ohio

3rd February 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cooke Aquaculture subsidiary Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd has received approval from the Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board (ARB) for boundary adjustments for Farm AQ1039 located off Rattling Beach in the Annapolis Basin.

1st February 2022

NS farm authorisation

1st February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Work is underway at the land-based salmon farm owned and operated in Öxarfjörður by Icelandic seafood company Samherji that is expected to ramp-up its production by around 3,000 tonnes annually.

1st February 2022

Samherji expanding farm

1st February 2022

NEWS

NEWS

To help uphold Mowi’s production capability and market position, the Norwegian-headquartered salmon farming company has started working with Blue Unit Solutions, a Danish company that produces data and visualisation technologies to improve…

4th January 2022

Salmon farmer brings in Denmark’s Blue Unit to help with water quality

4th January 2022

NEWS

NEWS

While there are strong concerns about the disruptive effects that the lack of catch share agreements for certain species in the European Economic Area (EEA) will have on fish processors in the…

3rd January 2022

AIPCE-CEP: Using salmon supply to solve pelagic impasse would damage European processing

3rd January 2022

NEWS

NEWS

Ninety percent of the shares in Danish canned fish processor Munkebo Seafood A/S have been acquired by the Bakkafrost Group.

3rd January 2022

Bakkafrost snaps up 90% of Danish processor

3rd January 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Alf-Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Norwegian salmon farming company Kvarøy Fiskeoppdrett AS and Kvarøy Arctic, has joined Arctic Seafarm Holding AS as chairman of the board, the two companies have confirmed. At the…

22nd December 2021

Arctic Seafarm gets government green light, Kvarøy CEO joins the board

22nd December 2021