When does a Sea Pen become an Aquarium?
World Feeds Ltd has been making huge strides improving cleaner fish health, welfare and efficacy against sea lice. Their unique VAF Feed Blocks have been embraced by 6 of the […] Continue Reading
Heart of the matter
A new study is helping to tackle cardiomyopathy syndrome in farmed salmon Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) of farmed Atlantic salmon is widespread and responsible for significant losses. Affected fish may show […] Continue Reading
Mortalities set to cost Arctic Fish £9m
The Icelandic salmon company Arctic Fish has revealed that the biological incident which hit one of its sites last week has cost the company around ISK 1.5bn, almost £9m. The […] Continue Reading
Bakkafrost Q4 earnings below expectations, but Scotland improving
Bakkafrost today unveiled a well below par 2021 fourth quarter operational profit (EBIT) of 120m Danish kroner (£13.5m) as biological problems continued to affect its Scottish Salmon Company business. But […] Continue Reading
Mowi ends 2021 on a record high
Mowi ended 2021 with record revenues of just over €4.2bn (£3.5bn), the company declared today. It also sold 466,000 tonnes of salmon and a record high of 248,000 tonnes of […] Continue Reading
Icelandic farmer hit by mass mortality incident
Up to 2,000 tonnes of ready to harvest salmon have been lost at an Arctic fish site in Iceland due to serious biological problems. It is thought to be one […] Continue Reading
Cermaq declares first iFarm harvest a success
The first salmon from Cermaq’s iFarm, which uses state of the art monitoring and artificial intelligence technology to maximise fish welfare, have been harvested and exported. Cermaq said the results […] Continue Reading
PHARMAQ Analytic opens new lab in Inverness
Fish health group PHARMAQ Analytiq Scotland has opened a new molecular biology laboratory in Inverness. The lab is based at Solasta House on Inverness Campus, a life sciences and technology […] Continue Reading
Research grant for mouthrot vaccine study
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