£800,000 project targets gill health

By Jenny Hjul | April 10, 2018

A PROJECT worth almost £800,000 has been launched by Scottish Sea Farms and feed company BioMar to target gill health in farmed salmon. The £798,400, two-year initiative, part funded by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), will develop innovative diagnostic tools to precisely monitor the gill condition of salmon in seawater pens, along with devising…

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‘Ripple effect’ of £17.9m aquaculture investment

By Jenny Hjul | February 28, 2018

THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has facilitated 16 collaborative projects with a combined investment of £17.9 million since it was set up in 2014. This amounts to £3.60 generated for every £1 of public money, said SAIC CEO Heather Jones, unveiling the organisation’s progress report – Innovation and the Ripple Effect. SAIC’s role, she…

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Tassal joins global salmon group

By Jenny Hjul | February 20, 2018

AUSTRALIAN salmon farmer Tassal has joined the Global Salmon Initiative, a collective of 17 producers from around the world. The GSI, established in 2013 to improve industry sustainability, has expanded by more than 40 per cent in seven months and includes eight associate members. It represents 55 per cent of the global salmon production industry,…

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