Salmon Farming

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Salmon has retained its position as the UK’s favourite fish, with new figures revealing sales soared to GBP 1.5 billion last year amid continued strong demand.

29th April 2025

UK salmon sales soar to £1.5bn

29th April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A group of Scottish Highland secondary pupils will get a first-hand look at the variety of opportunities that the salmon farming sector offers thanks to part of a programme designed to show…

29th April 2025

Scottish students explore salmon farming careers

29th April 2025

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Samherji Fish Farming, a subsidiary of Samherji hf, has completed financing of the first phase of its Salmon Garden, a new land-based fish farming facility on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. The…

29th April 2025

WATCH: Samherji secures financing for new land-based salmon farm

29th April 2025

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Skretting China has opened a new LifeStart production line in Zhuhai – Skretting’s first dedicated LifeStart facility in Asia. At the same time, it has launched five new innovative hatchery feed products,…

29th April 2025

Skretting China starts new LifeStart production line

29th April 2025

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

There’s been a rapid adoption of artificial intelligence – or AI – in the aquaculture space in the past two years, with validation and significant advancements in these technologies replacing manual processes…

25th April 2025

AI in aquaculture – a pathway to enhanced productivity and acceptance

25th April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The boards of Wilsgård AS, SalMar Farming AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SalMar, and SalMar have approved a plan for a triangular merger, with SalMar Farming as the acquiring company, Wilsgård as…

23rd April 2025

SalMar to merge with Wilsgård

23rd April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Scottish based aquaculture genetics company Xelect is marking ten years of business success having established over 30 breeding programmes across 20 species around the world.

22nd April 2025

Marking ten years in aquaculture genetics

22nd April 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

While aquaculture is widely recognised as being crucial to global food security, the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit heard the industry needs to do much more to ensure it can meet the…

16th April 2025

UN: Global food security requires ‘silicon fjord’ innovation to trickle down to all aquaculture

16th April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and the Oceans Marianne Sivertsen Næss has announced a new white paper titled “Future aquaculture – sustainable growth and food for the world”, which outlines steps the government…

16th April 2025

Norway sets out new aquaculture strategy

16th April 2025

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) has reversed an earlier rejection decision and has now approved plans for Helgeland Miljøfisk’s land-based salmon farming venture, moving the facility a step closer to being…

16th April 2025

Green light for Helgeland Miljøfisk’s land-based salmon farm

16th April 2025