Archive for July 2020
Salmon facing \’challenging time\’ say analysts
SALMON prices are heading down and into a challenging period over the next three months, the latest industry intelligence reports suggest. The downward pressure appears to be due to increased output across the northern hemisphere producing countries and lower demand, most it due to the fallout from coronavirus. In Norway the salmon biomass has increased…
Read MoreOcean Farm 1 gets new licences
THE salmon farming group SalMar has been give the go-ahead to convert eight development permits into fish production licences for its giant revolutionary offshore ‘sea cage’ known as Ocean Farm 1. The decision by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, follows a comprehensive investigation and full report which is open to examination. The announcement was welcomed…
Read MoreSAIC to support recovery with new fund
The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has launched an open, ongoing rapid-response funding call to support Scotland’s growing aquaculture sector through the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The innovation centre is welcoming applications from collaborative partnerships between businesses and academic researchers, for a fast-tracked process that will help the aquaculture sector adapt to a…
Read MoreNorway hoping to strike UK seafood deal
Norway is hoping to strike a free trade deal with Britain by the end of this year so it can continue to sell its salmon and whitefish without serious disruption. The UK is Norway’s fourth largest export market for seafood, mainly cod, haddock, farmed salmon and shellfish, and is currently worth almost seven billion kroner…
Read MoreNordlaks suffers 5,000 litre diesel spill
Police and scientists are investigating a large diesel spillage from a fish farm owned by the high profile company Nordlaks. Around 5,000 litres of oil are believed to have come from a site on the island of Grytøya, about 100 kilometres south of Tromso. It has affected a one kilometre long stretch of shoreline. The…
Read MoreUS cellular aquaculture business to expand
THE Californian cellular aquaculture company BlueNalu has unveiled ambitious plans for major production expansion and boosting its research and development capabilities. The company said the move will include a new 38,000 square foot manufacturing facility in San Diego where it is based – a six-fold increase on the current space. The larger facility will include…
Read MoreRecircle of Life
New frontier in global aquaculture requires a new approach to selective breeding One of my first experiences of working in the aquaculture industry was on a tilapia farm in Cambridgeshire, thousands of miles from anywhere a tilapia may normally call home. Those were the early days of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) – it was the…
Read MoreBags all packed
Webster Griffin offers packing solutions for aquaculture Webster Griffin, based in Crowborough in East Sussex, have been manufacturing equipment for packing fish feed and Salmon food into all types of bags for over 20 years. Their open and consultative approach means that they benefit from customer feedback, enabling them to continually innovate and update their technology.…
Read MoreExtreme Solutions
Delivering moorings and nets at high energy, exposed sites With high-energy aquaculture sites to oversee in Scotland’s Western Isles, Mowi Regional Seawater Manager Kris Laird wanted to see for himself how Faroese fish farmers operate in highly exposed environments that regularly withstand exceptionally hostile conditions. Early last year he arranged a trip with some Mowi…
Read MoreOva Delivery
Benchmark Genetics overcomes covid-19 challenges to egg supplies Despite the recent pandemic, nothing has prevented Benchmark Genetics in Icleand from continuing to deliver egg supplies to its clients. Since the import ban of salmon eggs from Norway to Scotland, Iceland has become the main source of salmon eggs to the region. However, the Covid-19 pandemic…
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