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Georgina Wright (left) and Sarah Holmyard have been appointed to the board of industry body Seafish

Seafish announces board appointments

Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has appointed two new members to its board. Sarah Holmyard and Georgina Wright bring experience from the shellfish and salmon...
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Key Grimsby seafood business saved

A Grimsby seafood business and with it more than 30 jobs have been saved following a financial rescue mission. The company, D&A Seafood Solutions Ltd, which had an annual turnover...
Arctic Fish, Westfjords

Arctic Fish chief to step down

Stein Ove Tveiten, is to step down as CEO of Mowi owned Arctic Fish in Iceland, it was announced today. He is thought to have told the board of his...
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Leading climate change scientist to open Australian Seagriculture

Professor Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s leading writers on climate change, has been announced as the opening keynote speaker for the Australian Seagriculture Conference in March next year. The conference...
Nick Joy RAS

There’s nothing new in the world

By Nick Joy Luckily, age has not dimmed my memory yet, so I can remember the first discussions about serious commercial RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems) farming of salmon. I thought...
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Imitation salmon project receives €2m funding boost

The quest to find an acceptable non fish version of salmon has been given a €2m-plus boost from the European Union. The Austrian food-tech company Revo Foods is working with...
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Jellyfish attacks leave a harmful legacy, study finds

Jellyfish can still kill and cause problems for fish even after they have left an area, new research suggests. An article published recently in the scientific journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions...
Salmon saviours (from left): Chief Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu; Matt Johnson, Senior Environmental Scientist, Supervisor, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Flying fish

A rare Chinook salmon species in California has been given a chance to survive drought conditions thanks to a helicopter airlift, as Julia Hollister reports. An innovative programme to save...
Trond Hakon Schaug-Pettersen, CEO Salmon Evolution

Salmon Evolution on track for 5,000 tonnes

Norway's young land based salmon farmer Salmon Evolution said it is on track to harvest 5,000 tonnes this year – and is expecting even bigger things for 2025. Presenting its...
Copeinca anchoveta fishing crew

Cooke buys South American fishmeal and fish oil giant

The Cooke group has entered into a deal to buy the giant Peru-based fishmeal and fish oil company Pesquera Inca SAC (Copeinca), it has been announced. The purchase target is...
Barramundi Group farm, Singapore

Court grants Barramundi time to fix its finances

A Singapore court has granted fish farming business the Barramundi Group four months’ protection from creditors, allowing it to get its financial house in order. The company had asked for...
Signing ceremony 7 November

Milestone for Stirling’s new aquaculture Hub

A steel signing event today has marked the beginning of the final phase construction for a new sustainable aquaculture research facility at the University of Stirling. The National Aquaculture Technology...
Þorsteinn Már Baldvinsson (left) , CEO of Samherji and Tómas Már Sigurðsson, CEO of HS Orka, hand over the collaboration. They are accompanied by Jón Kjartan Jónsson, Managing Director of Samherji Fiskeldi, and Jón Ásgeirsson, Managing Director of HS Orka's Strategy and Resource Park.

Samherji signs major RAS deal

A £263m deal to build Iceland’s largest land-based salmon plant was announced last night. It will be located on the coast at Reyjanes, just a few miles south of the...
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Russian Aquaculture sees margins hit in Q1

Russian Aquaculture saw a year-on-year increase in sales volume and revenue for the first quarter of 2021, but earnings took a hit thanks to lower market prices. The company is...

Måsøval hits fund-raising target

Måsøval, the family-owned Norwegian fish farmer seeking to list on Oslo’s EuroNext Growth market, has succeeded in raising the NOK 825m (£70m) it needs to fund its growth ambitions –...

Fish health experts warned as IHN cases mount

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute is staging a special webinar today on the viral disease Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHN), as the number of cases continues to spread throughout Denmark. Six Danish...
Wally Stevens

GAA hails year of growth despite pandemic

Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) grew the number of certified operators under its Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) scheme by a tenth through 2020....

The feed conundrum

There have been great strides forward in aquafeed, but the industry will need to continue looking for even better solutions. When I was first in the industry, feed was pelletised...