Posts Tagged ‘fish health and welfare’
Fresh water ‘may be answer to salmon disease’
The bacterium that causes pasteurellosis in farmed salmon does not survive for long in fresh water, new tests have shown. Experiments with fresh water were carried out after an epidemiological investigation showed that the probability of an outbreak of pasteurellosis increases significantly after thermal or physical de-lousing with seawater, but not after freshwater-based de-lousing.
Read MoreGood Farm Animal Welfare Awards celebrate achievements in aquaculture
Tilapia producer Regal Springs, salmon farmer Cermaq and retail giants Marks & Spencer and Albert Heijn were among the winners at the Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards (GFAWA) in Paris today. The awards, hosted by not-for-profit organisation Compassion in World Farming, recognised 49 winners from over 15 countries for their leadership in improving farm animal…
Read More£1m plan to tackle complex gill disease in salmon
Norway’s aquaculture and fisheries fund has launched an initiative to discover more about the growing problem of complex gill disease in salmon.
Read MoreNovo Holdings buys into lice laser company
Life sciences company Novo Holdings is to take a majority stake in aquaculture technology company Stingray Marine Solutions.
Based in Oslo, Stingray specialises in intelligent aquaculture technology serving the salmon industry and has developed a laser-based system to kill sea lice.
Read MoreAlgal oil for a better fish
RaySon algal oil, an alternative source of omega-3 specially for salmon feed, improves the quality of the final product for consumers and boosts the immune system.
Read MoreVónin unveils ROYAL anti-predator netting with antifouling properties
Vónin, a leader in innovative aquaculture solutions, has introduced its latest breakthrough: ROYAL anti-predator netting.
Read MoreStirling awarded grant for Vietnam vaccine project
Scientists at the University of Stirling have been awarded more than £770,000 to support the roll out of a new vaccine that could deliver major benefits to the aquaculture industry in Vietnam. The new project – led by the University’s world-leading Institute of Aquaculture – will build on a previous study that developed an innovative…
Read More£1.6m secured for fish health research
The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced its support for three innovation projects aimed at enhancing finfish health and welfare in response to a changing climate and other emerging challenges.
The projects concerned will address three major biological threats to farmed fish: micro-jellyfish, harmful algal blooms (HABs) and proliferative kidney disease (PKD).
Read MoreA brand new model
Mowi Scotland has been pioneering a new approach to sea lice modelling that suggests regulators may be over-cautious.
Read MoreSense and sentinels
I have always been sure that it was unnecessary for Scottish Ministers to appoint a regulator to manage sea lice. As the weeks go by, I am also increasingly convinced that the appointment of SEPA to this role was a major mistake.
Having watched their efforts from the outset, I firmly believe that SEPA have little understanding of sea lice and the interactions with wild fish. I suspect that SEPA have simply listened to a narrative promoted by Scottish Government scientists based on mathematical modelling and have adopted the narrative as their approach to regulation but critically, without any real understanding of what it means.
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