Posts Tagged ‘Norway’
FEEDNETICS™ – free webinar
SPAROS is organizing another free webinar on their nutritional tool FEEDNETICS™, this time for the Aquafeed sector, on October 1st, 2020. SPAROS has been presenting a series of webinars to show a diverse audience how their nutritional tools can help users to predict the effects of nutritional and environmental factors on fish growth, feed conversion,…
Read MoreDiving In
Ross-shire Diving Services land major Mowi contract When Brian Watson and Fiona Cameron made the decision to leave successful careers in New Zealand to return to Scotland, it was with the vision of setting up a new life with their young family and return to the area where they grew up. Watson began his diving…
Read MoreAustevoll Q2 results impacted by covid
Austevoll Seafood has become the latest company to report a Covid-19 hit on its 2020 second quarter performance due to lower margins from trout and Atlantic salmon, including Scottish Sea Farms in which it has an interest. The figures might have been worse had it not been for higher earnings from its pelagic fishing activity…
Read MoreThe GOOD Life
OK Marine is an active contributor in the fight against salmon lice. They use cleaner fish as a natural delousing tool and have built a complete concept to create the optimal conditions and welfare for cleaner fish. The concept is called the GOOD concept and provides proper protection, adapted feeding and a safe environment to…
Read MoreFish farm auction nets 6 billion kroner
The big Norwegian fish farming permit auction this week netted more than half a billion pounds sterling – or just short of six billion kroner. A total of 30 aquaculture companies paid the record amount and they will share new licenses capable of producing an additional 27,000 tonnes a year. At least NOK two billion…
Read MoreCovid impacts Leroy Q2 profits
The Lerøy Seafood Group, co-owners of Scottish Sea Farms, today reported a significant drop in profits due almost entirely to the Covid-19 pandemic during the second quarter of this year. Q2 Revenues fell from NOK 5,340 million to NOK 4,712 million (£403 million), while the operating profit before fair value adjustment related to biological assets…
Read More42 companies in bid for Norwegian salmon riches
The great Norwegian salmon auction got underway this week with more than 40 companies bidding for fish farming licences worth billions of kroner. Postponed from June because of the coronavirus pandemic, the potential to produce an additional 27,000 tonnes of salmon is up for grabs in nine areas of the country designated \’green\’ under the…
Read MoreRopelessly devoted to you
Nordic Cover produces high quality, durable and ropeless kelp systems for cleanerfish. A special lacquered coating means there is minimal cleaning and therefore associated manual labour on sites. Nordic Cover kelp has been left in from October till April with no growth! Nordic can tailor each kelp system for every site’s needs, ensuring that cleanerfish…
Read MoreNet Profits
NLB water jets specifically designed for harsh environments Cleaners of net pens both in-situ and onshore require reliable, effective water jet cleaning systems to remove algae, waste matter and other organic growth that restrict water flow reducing oxygen levels and water quality which affect fish health, growth and harvest yield. NLB’s 225, 325 and 605…
Read MoreBiofouling: A ‘Gluey Constrictor’
Garware’s V2 technology has built-in antifouling properties The famous phrase by Captain Haddock in Tintin’s ‘Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles!’ would be one of the first introductions to biofouling species in our childhood. Any surface submerged in water is susceptible to the growth of aquatic species: both micro and macro, and this effect is known…
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