Features

Lizzy Martin in the lab

Triple solution

Growing shrimp, oysters and seaweed together creates a natural balance, a study by the University of New Hampshire has found. Scientists with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) College of...
European sea bass will continue to be happier in the Mediterranean than in the north Atlantic

Species diversification under climate change

Warmer seas could mean rethinking the kind of fish we farm. Lynne Falconer reports on a new study on the implications of climate change for aquaculture. Species diversification is often...
Atlantic cod

A load of cods?

Norway’s Institute of Marine Research is highly critical of cod farming but its views are not backed by evidence, argues Dr Martin Jaffa. A row is brewing in Norway over...
Wester Ross

Hands-on farming

Mowi acquired Wester Ross Fisheries in 2022. Robert Outram asks: has the move changed the company’s unique approach? Wester Ross Fisheries is a different kind of salmon farmer. Visiting the...
Macduff contract signing (from left): Ben Wilson (Managing Director, Inverlussa Marine Services), Naomi Knight (Project Co-ordinator, Inverlussa Marine Services), John Watt (Managing Director, Macduff Shipyards) and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP

Changing of the guard

With a new government at Westminster, and new leadership at Holyrood, Salmon Scotland Chief Executive Tavish Scott has been busy ensuring that aquaculture’s voice is heard at the heart of...
(L-R) Edwin Batchelor (Best Aquaculture Practical Report), Jack Van Eker (Best Aquaculture Dissertation), Prof Carlos Garcia de Leaniz (CSAR Director), Lottie Oulton and Ollie Duke (Best Welfare In Aquaculture Dissertations - joint award)

Welfare insights

Two prize-winning studies by Swansea University students offer a new perspective on fish and shrimp welfare. CSAR, the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research at Swansea University, is one of the...
Sir Keir Starmer takes up his new role in 10 Downing Street

All change

Keir Starmer won a landslide victory. So what’s next? Britain's Labour Party swept to power last month on the strength of a one-word promise: “Change”. There is no doubt that...
Cooke Aquaculture trout farm, Washington State

Water fight looming in US Senate

As Julia Hollister reports, bipartisan support for expanding US aquaculture does not mean it will get an easy ride. There is a storm brewing across the USA. But don’t board...
Fish market, Angola

Record breakers

With aquaculture now producing more than catch fisheries for the first time in human history, has the age of the fish farm arrived? World fisheries and aquaculture production has hit...
Fish Farmer, September 2024 - Cover

The September 2024 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online