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Marine Cranes Ltd launches services and partners with Iron Fist to expand crane distribution for the UK and Ireland

Newly formed Marine Cranes provides servicing, overhaul and sales to the marine industry across the UK and Ireland. It has recently acquired an exclusive dealership with IRON FIST to supply...
Fish farm (photo: Vladislav Gajic)

European Commission in call to cut admin burden on aquaculture

The European Commission has published guidance aimed at helping member states promote sustainable aquaculture. The move, in the form of two working documents, comes in response to producer calls to...
AKVA fish tanks

AKVA order book strong despite Land Based disappointment

AKVA Group, one of the world’s leading aquaculture technology and service businesses, today announced a 10% reduction in first quarter revenues, with slow progress in its land based sector. The...
Dr Iain Berrill, Head of Technical, Salmon Scotland

Royal College honour for Dr Iain Berrill

Dr Iain Berrill, Head of Technical at industry body Scottish Salmon, is one of three leading professionals to be made an Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons...
Mussels growing on a rope

Speakers confirmed for SAGB Conference

The British shellfish sector will be returning in force to London this month for the 54th Annual Conference of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain. This year’s conference is being...
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Mair named as Sanford CEO

New Zealand seafood group Sanford has appointed David Mair as its CEO, with immediate effect. Mair was previously CEO of New Zealand-based engineering firm Skellerup Holdings, a post he stepped...
Fish Farmer April 2024 cover

The April 2024 issue of Fish Farmer magazine is out now online

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Row over fjord salmon licences erupts in Iceland

A political row has broken out in Iceland over the granting of new fjord farming licences to the country’s salmon companies. The government has been accused of giving away the...
Oysters

An uphill task

The shellfish world is one full of contrasts, Nicki Holmyard finds As we gained plaudits, column inches and airtime in March for the wonderful benefits to the environment, biodiversity, ecosystem...
salmon swimming in green water

ISA suspected at two Norwegian sites

Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) looks to have returned to Norway following an absence of several weeks. Two suspected cases have been identified in recent days, with salmon giant SalMar one...
man holds large salmon

Cermaq to trial algal oil as sustainable alternative

Cermaq Canada has announced that it is to carry out trials on the use of algal oil in its salmon feed. The company hopes that the experiment will reduce the...
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Heritage Global Partners: online auction

Auction, liquidation and asset advisory firm Heritage Global Partners is holding an online auction featuring vessels & intangible property from an innovative and patented aquaculture net washing company, Brunswick Jetters....
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Canada facing ‘alarming’ drop in salmon output

Canada is facing an alarming decline in salmon farming production, the industry’s main body has warned. The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) says the decline is the equivalent of 390...
The Cooke Orkney team (from left to right): Orkney area manager Robert Peterson, Bryan Carr, Richard Groat, Johnny Smith, Robin Graham, and site manager Norman Peace (photo: Cooke Aquaculture)

Orkney jobs boost for Cooke’s new salmon farm

FIVE full-time, permanent jobs have been created by Cooke Aquaculture’s new organic salmon farm in Orkney, which starts production in the spring. And there are hopes that the number of...
Attendance at the Boston expo is expected to be impacted by the coronavirus

Shows ‘will go on’ despite virus fears

THE organisers of the world’s biggest seafood exhibitions have advised show goers not to shake hands in the wake of coronavirus fears. Diversified Communications, the company behind the Boston and...
The iFarm team (back row from left): Harald Tronstad and Bernt Saugen (both BioSort); Tore S Strand and Martin Søreide (both ScaleAQ); Sindre Abrahamsen (BioSort);
front (from left): Odd Ronald Olsen and Noralf Rønningen (both ScaleAQ); Karl Fredrik Ottem (Cermaq); Geir Hauge (BioSort); Kjell Hansen (Cermaq)

Individual fish farming moves a step nearer

SALMON farmer Cermaq is to install a Midgard System at its innovative iFarm, which was awarded four development licences by the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate. The farming concept, a joint project...
It is business as usual for Scottish salmon farmers despite a ban on Norwegian ova imports

Norway egg ban ‘boost for Scottish broodstock’

A BAN on the import of salmon eggs from Norway, introduced last summer, could be good news for the Scottish industry in the long term, sources said. Since the temporary...
The team involved in the new trout feed at the Paris launch

Trout fed insect and algal oil launched in France

FARMED trout fed with insect meal and algal oil is to go on sale in a French supermarket from next month. The fish, produced by Truite Service and to be...
Geir Inge Sivertsen, Norway's fisheries minister has offered to resign

New seafood minister rejects call to resign

NORWAY’S seafood and fisheries minister is facing calls to resign after less than six weeks into the post. Geir Inge Sivertsen took over from Harald T Nesvik last month following...