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Icelandic salmon company makes two new key appointments
Icelandic salmon farmer Arctic Fish has made two new key appointments. The Mowi-owned company has named John Gunnar Grindskar as its new Chief Operating Officer and Baldur Smári Einarsson as its new Financial Director. John Grindskar, who joins from Mowi in Norway,...
Innovation body SAIC in talks to secure future funding
Efforts are under way to secure funding for SAIC, the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre, after its main source of support looks set to end in July next year. SAIC, originally known as the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, has played a...
Nordic Halibut on track to hit production goals
Nordic Halibut says it is well on the way to achieving its production target of 4,500 tonnes within the next three years and 10,500 tonnes by 2031. Presenting its third quarter figures for this year the company said a strong approach...
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FIAP’s Alu series is light but strong
FIAP GmbH from Bavaria, Germany, has for many years offered a range of light but sturdy aluminium landing nets for fish farmers to facilitate their work. The FIAP profinet Alu...
Jobs
Ocean Ecology – Principal and Senior Health Consultants – Oban, Scotland
WHY OCEAN ECOLOGY? We are a leading marine environmental consultancy specialising in providing survey, technical and advisory services to organisations delivering and governing the global blue economy. Together with Åkerblå,...
Digital Feeding Consultant – AKVA Group
AKVA group is the world's largest supplier of solutions and services to global aquaculture. Driven by passion, commitment and a deep understanding of the complexity in our industry, we can...
Features
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...
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...
Scotland strengthens ties with Japan
Adam Wing reports from a key trade show in Tokyo, where the Scottish seafood industry was well represented. In August, a team from Seafood Scotland co-hosted a delegation of eight...
Recruitment and diversity
This month our Careers feature focuses on the Aqua Agenda webinar, which addressed recruitment and diversity in aquaculture. THE PANELLISTS Liz Barron-Majerik Liz Barron-Majerik is Scotland...
Opinion
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...
Where has the time gone?
By Nick Joy This month, I hope you will forgive a subject a little closer to home, as an important milestone has just passed for me. Twenty-five years will have...
What price differentiation?
By Nick Joy The climate for fish sales and prices globally is generally set fair, with the odd bump. This is in stark contrast to the outlook for production globally,...
Events
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...
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...
Valencia is the venue for Aquaculture Europe 2025
The historic Spanish town of Valencia will host Aquaculture Europe 2025, the annual conference of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS), in September next year. Taking place over 22-25 September, this...
Digital solutions on the agenda at A3 Scotland
Key players in Scotland’s animal health, agritech and aquaculture sectors will be meeting this week in Inverness at A3 Scotland, to find out more about how technology can help their...
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