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Mass mortality at Atlantic Sapphire’s Danish pilot
SOME 227,000 salmon have died at the Danish site of land based farming pioneer Atlantic Sapphire. The company lost the fish at its commercial pilot facility over the weekend, according to a statement posted on the Oslo Stock Exchange. ‘Preliminary analysis, subject to further verification over the next days, indicates higher nitrogen levels than desired…
Read MoreIceland salmon farmer ends year on positive note
THE Icelandic salmon farmer Arnarlax, which lost stock worth £2.5 million in severe storms two weeks ago, has posted significantly increased harvests and profits for the final quarter of 2019. The company, in which Norway’s SalMar has a majority stake, made an operational EBIT of NOK 27 million. This was up from NOK 21.9 million…
Read MoreNorway’s seafood minister offers resignation
NORWAY’S latest seafood and fisheries minister has asked to step down after just five weeks in the post. Geir Inge Siversten was appointed in late January following a political bust-up within the Conservative coalition government. But he has already attracted controversy over his links with Masonic and business interests and for accepting severance pay from his…
Read MoreFish farm anger over airline\’s cuts
THE Norwegian fish farming sector has expressed fears over a regional airline’s plan to cut dozens of services flights, mostly in the centre north of the country. Widerøe is reported to be axing at least 15 per cent of its services, making up some 25 routes serving one of the largest concentrations of salmon and trout farming…
Read MoreFish farm anger over airline\’s cuts
THE Norwegian fish farming sector has expressed fears over a regional airline’s plan to cut dozens of services flights, mostly in the centre north of the country. Widerøe is reported to be axing at least 15 per cent of its services, making up some 25 routes serving one of the largest concentrations of salmon and trout farming…
Read MoreOrkney jobs boost for Cooke’s new salmon farm
FIVE full-time, permanent jobs have been created by Cooke Aquaculture’s new organic salmon farm in Orkney, which starts production in the spring. And there are hopes that the number of direct and indirect jobs will increase once a second site opens in 2021, the company said. Four residents from Stronsay have been recruited and successfully…
Read MoreShows ‘will go on’ despite virus fears
THE organisers of the world’s biggest seafood exhibitions have advised show goers not to shake hands in the wake of coronavirus fears. Diversified Communications, the company behind the Boston and Brussels expos, has been issuing health and safety updates ahead of its next event, in Boston from March 15-17. The ‘no-contact, no-handshake policy’ comes as…
Read MoreIndividual fish farming moves a step nearer
SALMON farmer Cermaq is to install a Midgard System at its innovative iFarm, which was awarded four development licences by the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate. The farming concept, a joint project with BioSort, uses image recognition and the identification of each individual salmon to monitor growth, health and sea lice. The technology will enable a shift…
Read MoreNorway egg ban ‘boost for Scottish broodstock’
A BAN on the import of salmon eggs from Norway, introduced last summer, could be good news for the Scottish industry in the long term, sources said. Since the temporary salmon and trout ova ban came into force in June 2019, after fears over infectious salmon anaemia (ISA), farmers in Scotland have had to turn…
Read MoreTrout fed insect and algal oil launched in France
FARMED trout fed with insect meal and algal oil is to go on sale in a French supermarket from next month. The fish, produced by Truite Service and to be stocked by retailer Auchan, are being reared on a diet formulated by Skretting that includes insect feed from French pioneer InnovaFeed and algal oil from…
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