Posts by Dave Edler
Salmon farmers urged to adopt blockchain technology
Blockchain technology has suddenly become a new tool in aquaculture in helping to ensure traceability from farm to plate and eliminating fish fraud. The Norwegian Seafood Association has just partnered with the IBM Food Trust, which uses the technology to improve transparency, and the technology provider Atea ASA to gather data on how salmon is…
Read MoreNorwegian salmon sales defy covid onslaught
DESPITE being ravaged by the worst global pandemic in over a century, Norwegian salmon exports have held up impressively well during the first six months of this year, the latest figures show. Sales for June also showed an increase. And all this in a period when most of the world’s restaurants had shut down, and…
Read MoreBakkafrost reports strong Q2 harvest
FOLLOWING a difficult start to the year Bakkafrost, the Faroese and now Scottish salmon farming business, is forecasting a strong recovery in the second quarter (March to June) of 2019. It has also seen an upsurge in feed sales. In its latest trading update, it says the harvest, (heads on gutted equivalent) from farming region…
Read MoreZoetis picks up Fish Vet Group from Benchmark
Zoetis has just announced the acquisition of Fish Vet Group from Benchmark Holdings PLC, as a strategic addition to its Pharmaq business which develops and commercializes fish vaccines and offers services in vaccination and diagnostics for aquaculture. Adding Fish Vet Group grows the geographic reach and enhances the diagnostics expertise and testing services, including environmental…
Read MoreCanada starts covid-19 salmon oil trial
THE Canadian health authorities have given the green light to a study to see if salmon oil can help Covid-19 sufferers make a speedier recovery. They are working with the Norwegian biotech company Hofseth Biocare, which specialises in developing high value marine ingredients into health products, and have this week approved a fast track phase…
Read MoreDisease attack at two major salmon companies
THE disease infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is presenting a costly headache for at least two big players in the fish farming sector, according to reports from Norway. The country’s Food Safety Authority says it has been notified by farming giant Cermaq that it discovered evidence last week compatible with ISA at its Marøya site in…
Read MoreAquaculture Awards 2020 Go Virtual
Due to the postponement of Aquaculture UK this year, the annual celebration of the industry, the Aquaculture UK Awards Dinner, will unfortunately not take place as originally planned. However, the sponsors and judges all agreed that it was vital that this important event did not go unmarked, so the organisers have announced that this year\’s…
Read More200 jobs lost if Iceland salmon ban approved
A Warning has gone out that the potential to create up to 200 jobs will be lost if a proposal to ban fish farming along the fjord which leads to the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri is approved. Last month the city council told the government in a surprise move that it does not want…
Read MoreBond nephew \’stirred not shaken\’ by fish farm investment
THE nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming has been stirred into financial involvement in a project to build a new fully integrated land based fish farming facility in northern Norway. The investment is being planned by the relatively new business Langnes Laks (Langnes Salmon) in which the British entrepreneur Rory David Fleming has a…
Read MoreBond nephew \’stirred not shaken\’ by fish farm investment
THE nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming has been stirred into financial involvement in a project to build a new fully integrated land based fish farming facility in northern Norway. The investment is being planned by the relatively new business Langnes Laks (Langnes Salmon) in which the British entrepreneur Rory David Fleming has a…
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