Archive for August 2022
Salmones Camanchaca lifts profits, cuts costs in Q2
Chile’s largest salmon farming company, Salmones Camanchaca, has unveiled a double second quarter boost in higher earnings and lower costs. Like most other global salmon producers, it has benefitted from higher market prices, but the big plus was its achievement in managing to cut costs in what has been a period of rising inflation. Salmones…
Read MoreStandard Biotools webinar on salmon health – 7 October 2022
Join Standard Biotools for their upcoming webinar on fish health on 7 October 2022. Leisha McGrath from the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre in Ireland will talk about how parasitic amoeba is becoming a consistent threat to the salmon aquaculture market due to climate change, and how the ability to regularly monitor fish stocks for…
Read MoreAquaculture seed funding call
Bids are being invited for a share of £100,000 in seed funding for new ideas in aquaculture. The call comes from CIEL, the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock, which has this year added aquaculture innovation to its remit. The seed funding is aimed at supporting research into new processes, products or services in aquaculture.…
Read MoreMowi role for Wester Ross founder
Gilpin Bradley, founder and Managing Director at Wester Ross Fisheries, has joined Mowi Scotland as Business Development Director – Farming, Scotland. The move follows Mowi’s acquisition of Wester Ross at the end of June this year, which was revealed in a document posted on the Companies House website, dated 30 June, which stated that Mowi…
Read MoreSeagriculture conference will be held in North America for the first time
For the first time the Seagriculture conference is being organized in the USA, taking place in the Westin Portland Harborview hotel in Portland, Maine, on 7-8 September. The Seagriculture conference in Europe has been successfully organised since 2012 and has built up a solid reputation as the leading conference for the seaweed industry. Seagriculture USA…
Read MoreContract ties, low volumes hit NRS profits for Q2
Norway Royal Salmon has paid a heavy price for its dependence on contract sales, the company’s second quarter results show. NRS, now part of the SalMar group, today reported an operational EBIT or profit of NOK 32m (£2.7m) against NOK 94m (£8.1m) for the same period last year. The April-June period this year was marked…
Read MoreFrom Argyll to Iraq – and back
In 1972 Richard Nixon was still in the White House and Ted Heath was Prime Minister of the UK, while David Bowie’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, was bringing a unique brand of glamour to the pop charts. And on the west coast of Scotland, a new venture was under way: farming steelhead trout. Kames’ operation…
Read MoreSteely determination
When the Fish Farmer team visited Kames’ headquarters in Kilmelford, the west coast of Scotland had just seen several days of heavy rain. The water in the hatchery tanks, normally clear, was as dark as whisky thanks to peat washed down from the hillside. It was a reminder that a farm is never separated from…
Read MoreIsraeli start-up aims to produce cell-cultured scallops
Seafood grown in a lab, not the sea, could be coming to a supermarket near you in the foreseeable future. That’s the claim made by Israeli tech business Mermade, which has just raised US$3.3m (£2.8m) in a seed funding round. The company says it has developed a technology to make cell-cultured seafood affordable, and plans…
Read MoreAquascot signs up to Young Person’s Guarantee
Highland salmon and trout processing company Aquascot has become the latest to pledge to support an initiative aimed at welcoming young people to the world of work. The Alness-based Aquascot – which supplies high quality seafood to retailer Waitrose – has signed up to Developing the Young Workforce Inverness & Central Highland (DYWICH), affirming its…
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