What’s New
Brexit ready
O’Toole Transport in Bellshill has become an approved hub for creating export health certificates, and we can offer this service to any Scottish seafood company that will require the service in January. We recently became BRC AA approved and have grown our management team to help us with the creation of customs export declarations in…
Read MoreBoris Nets and Fibras Industriales working together
BORIS Nets – one of the UK’s oldest aquaculture net supply companies – and Fibras Industriales SA (FISA) a leading volume supplier in the Americas are happy to confirm they have formed a partnership to serve the UK and Irish markets. John Howard, Managing Director at Boris Nets, said: “The relationship brings together the joint…
Read MoreNew Water Disinfection Technology
Aquaturu A/S is a Danish technology company which has developed groundbreaking, innovative and environmentally friendly water treatment solutions that can help secure sustainable land-based fish farming. The company has introduced a new and revolutionary method to reduce bacteria, viruses, parasites and algae in freshwater fish farming facilities, challenging the traditional solutions used for disinfection of…
Read MoreThe Fish Farmer Yearbook 2021 is out now
The 2021 edition of the Fish Farmer Yearbook is out now and you can view it online here. As ever, this edition includes the latest facts and figures from the Scottish Production Surveys for Fish Farming and Shellfish, as well as a planner for the year ahead. There are feature articles on the industry\’s origins…
Read MoreRS Aqua provide real time current data to salmon farms
RS Aqua has supplied the first real-time current profiler into Scotland for use with Innovasea’s real-time Aquaculture Intelligence system. The profiler is a Nortek Aquadopp Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). Nortek ADCPs are world leading, but are generally deployed independently and record data internally. Innovasea’s system streams data to the salmon farm manager’s phone or…
Read MoreVAKI provides flexible service options for clients
Market Leading Customer Care Package The Customer Care Package (CCP) provides registered customers benefits including preferential service, free updates and exceptional discounts on new software and hardware upgrades. “Another big benefit of the CCP are the routine service checks, during which we log into the counters to check the software is up to date and…
Read MoreXelect and Petuna’s cutting edge breeding program to ‘climate proof’ fish
Genetics experts Xelect and Tasmanian fish farming business Petuna are collaborating to breed temperature-tolerant salmon, improving performance as water temperatures increase. The Xelect team worked alongside Petuna to develop a sophisticated genetic toolkit that routinely assesses warmer water resilience, and creates cumulative performance gains every generation. Xelect’s senior breeding programme manager Dr. Marie Smedley commented…
Read MoreThe right tools to manage fish eggs
Managing fish eggs is a delicate process and requires the right tools. The FIAP profibreed Fish Eggs Count Plate allows for quick counting of eggs and is easy to use. The FIAP profibreed Egg Tweezers, meanwhile, are ideally suitable for sorting out dead fish eggs. You can trust profibreed for premium quality, reliable and durable…
Read MoreDeep Trekker launches multi language controllers
Canadian robotics company Deep Trekker has launched new firmware allowing users to choose the language they want for their controller. Users will be able to opt for English, Spanish or Norwegian for Deep Trekker’s DTG3 and REVOLUTION inspection vehicles. Making use of Deep Trekker’s innovative BRIDGE technology, the update builds upon the existing advanced algorithms…
Read MoreA global game changer
The innovative closed floating fish farming system FishGLOBE is proving its excellence FishGLOBE, the ground-breaking closed floating fish farming system has now been in operation for two generations outside of Stavanger, Norway and the results are better than its developers could have imagined. The technology is also giving fish farmers the tool they need for…
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