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Benchmark Animal Health and international salmon farmer Cermaq Group AS are to receive funding for a collaborative research project to develop a new vaccine against salmon diseases caused by Tenacibaculum […] Continue Reading
One of the biggest threats to farmed salmon is not what you might expect. Every year, hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of fish die from a little-discussed cardiac disease, cardiomyopathy […] Continue Reading
A Mowi salmon farm on Canada’s Atlantic coast has suffered a mass mortality event, losing an estimated 92,700 fish. The event was reported by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Fisheries, […] Continue Reading
A team of UK researchers has received funding to find better ways to vaccinate ballan wrasse against bacterial infection. It is hoped the project could help to grow the use […] Continue Reading
Benchmark Genetics has hired Dr Øyvind J. Brevik as Fish Health Manager Salmon, responsible for fish health and welfare in Benchmark’s breeding programmes for Atlantic salmon. Brevik was previously Senior […] Continue Reading
Fish health company PatoGen has been acquired by Norway’s Fürst Medical Laboratory, which has promised to continue developing the business. PatoGen is a leading provider of preventive and diagnostic analysis […] Continue Reading
Animal welfare campaign group Compassion in World Farming has called for a halt on any expansion for the salmon farming industry in Scotland, with a damning report that alleges widespread […] Continue Reading
Mowi Scotland’s Production Director, Meritxell Diez-Padrisa, is to take up a new role as the company’s Fish Health Director as from May. Stepping into her position as Production Director is […] Continue Reading
An application that can help fish farmers to predict disease outbreaks has been found to have 93% accuracy or more. The developer, Manolin, has announced its results after a year […] Continue Reading