Posts Tagged ‘Nofima’
The war on lice
Technology is opening up a number of potential fronts in the struggle to keep farmed fish lice-free Early warning could help salmon farmers take timely action to reduce sea lice numbers before their stock becomes infested with the parasites. Clearly, assessing the levels of sea lice by counting the lice attached to salmon in a…
Read MoreSpawn to be wild
Selective breeding means farmed cod are less likely to spawn multiple times, research from Nofima suggests After several attempts in the past, cod farming on a commercial scale is on the rise in Norway, helped no doubt by high prices and tight quotas for wild caught cod. Norwegian research institute Nofima has been carrying out…
Read MoreNofima names new aquaculture head
Norwegian research institute Nofima has appointed Linn Anne Bjelland Brunborg to the post of Director, Aquaculture Division, starting 1 January. She was previously General Manager of Orkla Ocean, a Norwegian company set up to develop seaweed farming for food and related products. Bjelland Brunborg studied human nutrition at the University of Bergen and started her…
Read MoreGene editing project could help build Atlantic salmon’s resistance to lice
Researchers at Norwegian institute Nofima are investigating whether gene editing could provide an answer to the problem of sea lice. The Nofima team, along with partners from the UK, US, Canada, Sweden and Australia, will be using the gene editing technology CRISPR to try and build resistance to lice into Atlantic salmon. They believe that…
Read MoreAce Aquatec drives stunning research project
ACE Aquatec is to head a research project to find more humane slaughter methods for species such as tilapia and catfish. The Dundee based company, which has pioneered the electrical stunning of finfish, is leading one of three welfare initiatives announced by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA). The two other projects involve research and development…
Read MoreJudges named for 2020 Aquaculture Awards
THE judges for the 2020 Aquaculture Awards, to be held in Aviemore during the Aquaculture UK trade exhibition in May, have been announced. They include Alex Adrian, aquaculture operations manager of Crown Estate Scotland; Rob Fletcher, senior editor of the Fish Site; Martin Gill, head of aquaculture and fisheries of Lloyds Register; Nicki Holmyard, director…
Read MoreSalmon lice costing Norway NOK 5 billion a year
THE task of tackling salmon lice cost Norway’s aquaculture industry more than five billion kroner, or some £440 million last year, a leading researcher has calculated. Audun Iversen, who works at Nofima, the Norwegian Institute for Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, says the figure, which he has worked out at NOK 5.2 billion, had reached…
Read More\’More questions than answers\’ in gender debate
THERE is no wilful exclusion of women from aquaculture roles, but there is a generational issue of men avoiding the ‘difficulty of having a more diverse workplace’. This was the view of Lara Barazi, CEO of Kephalonian Fisheries in Greece, one of six panellists (three women and three men) at a Women in Aquaculture seminar…
Read More\’More questions than answers\’ in gender debate
THERE is no wilful exclusion of women from aquaculture roles, but there is a generational issue of men avoiding the ‘difficulty of having a more diverse workplace’. This was the view of Lara Barazi, CEO of Kephalonian Fisheries in Greece, one of six panellists (three women and three men) at a Women in Aquaculture seminar…
Read MoreMaking a mark with Trondheim seminar
BENCHMARK, the aquaculture breeding and genetics specialist, is staging a seminar during the Aqua Nor exhibition in August. Following a welcome from Benchmark CEO Malcolm Pye, the seminar programme will include the following presentations: • The importance of animal welfare in modern food production – do we take it seriously enough? – Dag Henning, director…
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