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Prize apprentice scoops three awards
AN apprentice with the Scottish Salmon Company scooped three big prizes at the Lantra Scotland Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards last night. Janis Brivkalns from Dunoon was named as joint overall Learner of the Year, as well as winning the Aquaculture Learner of the Year and the Modern Apprentice of the Year…
Read MoreWomen in aquaculture group launched
REPRESENTATIVES from across the aquaculture industry in Scotland are meeting today to launch Women in Scottish Aquaculture (WiSA), which aims to encourage more women to join the sector. Aquaculture professionals from industry, academia and the public sector, gathering at Stirling University, will celebrate International Women’s Day by pledging to support women in the industry. The…
Read MoreRAS farmer ‘learnt from mistakes’
LAND based salmon farming pioneer Atlantic Sapphire is now reaching expectations at its Danish farm, said the company, presenting an investor update at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen. The company’s farm in Langsand, Hvide Sande, Denmark, operating since 2011, has achieved a biomass of 870 tonnes (real live weight), which will produce an…
Read MoreFresh salmon prices surging
THE price of fresh salmon has shot up by almost ten per cent during the past week, according to the latest statistical data from Norway. It was running at 65.65 kroner per kilo at the end of week nine, an increase of 9.4 per cent, reports the financial news website e.24.no. Prices have been swinging…
Read MoreEarly success at new wave farm
COOKE Aquaculture’s newest site in Orkney, East Skelwick, lies 2.5km from the nearest landfall or, as farm manager Stewart Rendall puts it, ‘on the edge of the ocean’. Described as a trial site, it is Scotland’s most exposed high energy farm, and its success could help change the way salmon are farmed in the future.…
Read MoreStudy explores impact of RAS on salmon
THE impact of recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) on salmon smolts is to be investigated by a consortium led by Stirling University’s Institute of Aquaculture (IoA). The £2 million Robust-Smolt study – involving 14 institutions and organisations – will compare the robustness and susceptibility of RAS reared Atlantic salmon to pathogens. Over the next three years,…
Read MoreSalmon farmers adopt ‘trusted’ algae feed
MORE than 350,000 tonnes of aquafeed containing an algae based protein source have been sold to salmon farmers over the past two years, the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen was told yesterday. AlgaPrime DHA, made by Netherlands company Corbion, is being sold to Norwegian salmon farmers in feeds formulated by BioMar. Developed to reduce…
Read MoreInsurer spells out risks of RAS
THE world’s biggest fish farm insurer said that recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) had so far been a loss maker. Speaking at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF) in Bergen today, Geir Myre, global head of aquaculture insurance at AXA XL Catlin, said the proliferation of RAS projects were not ‘dream objects’ for his company, Salmon…
Read MoreNovel feed firm boosts team
NOVEL feed producer Veramaris has expanded its team as it prepares to open its full scale production facility in the US this summer. The Dutch firm makes natural marine algal oil at three sites on two continents, North America and Europe. The third and largest facility, in Blair, Nebraska, is currently under construction and expected…
Read MoreSalmon drives Norway export boom
NORWAY today reported its best February seafood export performance so far, thanks once again to the rising value of salmon. Although volumes were down by 57,000 tonnes on a year ago, this reduction was mainly due to a big drop in fishing for capelin. The overall value rose by nine per cent to NOK 7.8…
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