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SAIC secures £1.5 million funding package from the Scottish Government
Research organisation the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has secured new funding to continue its support of fish health research and development. Last year the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), which...
Former Cermaq Chile chief to head Atlantic Sapphire
The former head of Cermaq Chile, Pedro Courard, has been named as the next chief executive at land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire. He will succeed the company’s founder, Johan Andreassen,...
Jellyfish and hard winter hits SalMar Q1 profits
Norwegian salmon giant SalMar continued to be troubled by tough winter conditions and jellyfish attacks during the start of this year, the group’s first quarter results show. These problems, along...
Huge improvement in Q1 performance for Scottish Sea Farms
Scottish Sea Farms achieved a tremendous turnaround in its fortunes during the first three months of this year, according to figures today from SalMar, one of its co-owners. The business...
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New bid to suspend Arctic Fish licences rejected
The authorities in Iceland have rejected a new request to suspend the operating licences of Arctic Fish at two locations in the Westfjords. The demand had come from sports fishing...
Kingfish Company ‘approaching breakeven’
Land-based fish farmer The Kingfish Company says it is working its way to profitability, with financial results for the first quarter of this year it called “promising”. The company raises...
Green light for Scottish Sea Farms’ Shetland plan
Shetland Islands Council has given its approval to Scottish Sea Farms’ proposed offshore salmon farm at Billy Baa. The move is part of a strategy of modernising and consolidating the...
First fish released into Marine Donut pen
Thousands of salmon have been placed into Norway’s novel Marine Donut fish farm for the first time. It was the day everyone involved with the project had been waiting for,...
Campaigners challenge ‘protected’ rule change for Scottish salmon
Environmental charity Wildfish has formally appealed against a change in the rules on what can be called “Scottish salmon”. Last month the UK Government approved a request to amend the...
Escaped Lerøy salmon may be diseased, experts fear
Some of the fish that escaped from a Lerøy Seafood facility in Norway could be carrying serious diseases, it is being reported. Some 14,000 salmon with an average weight of...
Norway’s biological issues cut into Mowi’s Q1 profit
Mowi has today spoken of a biologically challenging 2024 first quarter at its Norwegian farms. The world's largest farmer of Atlantic salmon produced an operational profit or EBIT of €201m...