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Green solutions on the menu

AQUA 2024 brought together different stakeholders in aquaculture to share the latest knowledge and insights. Robert Outram reports. Watch our video from the show here: https://youtu.be/dFCYnrAQ1ho Scandinavia is famous for...
Vincent Erenst, CEO, The Kingfish Company

Kingfish CEO confirmed for Aqua Agenda webinar

The Chief Executive of an innovative land-based fish farming business is the latest panellist to be confirmed for Fish Farmer’s webinar – taking place on 16 October – on land-based...
Cooke in Maine

Cooke celebrates two decades in Maine

Cooke Seafood’s USA division is celebrating 20 years of aquaculture operations in the state of Maine. The group has more than 200 employees in the east coast state which is...
Benchmark Salten

ISA suspected at Benchmark facility – but in just one fish

Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) is suspected at a Benchmark Genetics facility in Northern Norway - but so far only a single fish seems to be affected. The site in Salten...
round fish farm cages in the sea, sunset

Consultation on plans to extend planning regime further offshore

Plans to extend marine planning zones in Scottish waters have been put out to public consultation. Fish and shellfish farms require planning permission out to 12 nautical miles, however local...
Scottish Sea Farms Scalloway team at the Great British Beach Clean

Beach clean blitz raises cash for local causes

For the seventh year running, salmon farmer Scottish Sea Farms will be taking part in the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Great British Beach Clean. This time, it will bring double...
Fish Farmer, September 2024 - Cover

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Magnified image of two sea lice

Lice numbers in northern Norway ‘at worrying levels’

Fish farms in northern Norway are being hit by extraordinarily high salmon lice levels, say the authorities. The situation is being caused by exceptional summer temperatures which have been up...
Campaigners say fish farming is to blame for wild salmon decline – but can produce little evidence

Fact-free campaigns

The reputation of salmon farming has suffered as a result of criticism that does not have much to back it up, says Martin Jaffa. The reputation of farmed salmon in...
three fish packed in ice

Salmon companies face nervous wait following ‘cartel’ hearing

Some of Norway’s largest salmon companies are in for an anxious time as they await the European Commission’s next move over alleged price-fixing. A three-day hearing in Brussels with the...
An employee checks the fermentation process in the 1000L bioreactors, next to the 30,000L bioreactors at MiAlgae's Commercial Demonstrator site

Omega-3 pioneer prepares to scale up

A Scottish-based biotech company looking to develop a new source of natural omega-3 is planning to expand after raising £14m in funding. MiAlgae uses nutrient-rich by-products from the whisky industry...
Salmon farm, Chile

Under fire

From highway robbery to lawsuits from indigenous communities, as Vince McDonagh reports, the Chilean salmon industry is facing challenges on a number of fronts. Of all the major fish farming...
source: Proximar video

Proximar secures one billion yen in loan capital

Proximar Seafood has secured two loan agreements worth a total of one billion Japanese yen for its Mount Fuji RAS salmon farm project. The figure, broadly equivalent to £5.3m or...
Craig Anderson, outgoing CEO of the  Scottish Salmon Company (photo: Angus Blackburn)

Scottish Salmon Company in awards hat-trick

THE Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has won three categories at the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards, held last week. The company picked up top prizes for Business Growth,...
Salmon production in Iceland

Iceland poll finds huge support for salmon farming

THE inhabitants of the Westfjords region of Iceland have overwhelmingly come out in favour of fish farming following a special telephone poll carried out among its inhabitants. The poll was...
Mowi Scotland's outgoing farming operations director  Gideon Pringle (photo: Owen Evans)

Gideon Pringle to leave Mowi Scotland

Mowi Scotland\'s high profile farming operations director, Gideon Pringle, is to leave the company, it was confirmed tonight. The search is now on for his replacement at Scotland\'s biggest salmon...
(From left to right): Partnership Scotland category sponsor Dr Peter Neilson from Glenmorangie with Iona Hodge from Local Energy Scotland, Daniel Alkil from Pure Energy Centre, Paul Condy from the Scottish Salmon Company , David Macleod from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Gillian Wilson from Community Energy Scotland

Good VIBES for eco conscious salmon farmers

TWO Scottish salmon farmers have been recognised in this year’s VIBES Scottish Environment Business Awards, which are given to organisations that contribute to sustainable development. The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC)...
Heather Jones, CEO of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre

SAIC secures £10m to help industry thrive

THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) plans to focus on small and medium sized enterprises over the next five years, after securing its second phase of funding, worth £10 million....
Mowi Ireland managing director Jan Feenstra

Mowi may halt Irish investment over licence ‘hassle’

Mowi has warned it may move €22 million investment planned for Ireland to other countries because of delays in the Irish licensing system. Mowi Ireland boss Jan Feenstra has called...