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Aquaculture biotech company Benchmark has hired Dr Diego Crespo as the latest recruit to its new Reproductive Technologies team. Dr Crespo joins from the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, […] Continue Reading
Some 58 million farmed salmon died prematurely in Norway last year, according to the latest risk report from the country’s Institute of Marine Research (IMR). The results are about a […] Continue Reading
Norway’s Fisheries Directorate says the pattern of farmed fish escapes is changing, with salmon no longer the main culprit. The highest number of escapes in the country’s fish farms last […] Continue Reading
Trials aimed at breeding plaice under farming conditions have proved highly successful, less than two years after getting underway. The results have even surprised the scientists at Norway’s Institute of […] Continue Reading
NORWAY’S Institute of Marine Research is proposing a 33 per cent plus reduction (22 per cent in biomass terms) in the number of salmon farming sites in the west of the country, which […] Continue Reading
NORWAY has mapped and identified 11 extensive new zones down its 1,650-mile long coastline that could be suitable for the future development of sea based offshore aquaculture. The Directorate of […] Continue Reading
INDIVIDUALISED fish farming will move a step closer in 2020 as Norwegian producer Cermaq plans a January launch for its iFarm project. The company, which last year won four development […] Continue Reading
NORWAY’S Directorate of Fisheries has laid out details of the compensation it is planning to give those fish farming companies who lost at least 720 million kroner – or £60 […] Continue Reading
NORWAY’S leading marine scientists have poured cold water on claims that fish farming may be to blame for the devastating algae outbreak, which has destroyed almost eight million salmon in […] Continue Reading