Multi Pump Innovation (MPI), which makes net cleaning robots, will unveil a prototype of a new model at this week’s Aqua Nor trade show in Trondheim, the Norwegian company said today.

Malcolm Pye, the founder of aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics business, Benchmark, has resigned from his role as chief executive of the Sheffield-based company.

Cooke Aquaculture Inc is working with AKVA to develop land based projects in Chile.

Water monitoring equipment maker OxyGuard has partnered with feed manufacturers BioMar and Aller Aqua to “revolutionise” aquaculture by providing what it says is the first sector-wide digitilisation software.

Scottish aquaculture technology supplier Ace Aquatec and its managing director Nathan Pyne-Carter have been shortlisted in three categories in the annual business awards run by Dundee’s Courier newspaper.

Knut Nesse, the former chief executive of feed manufacturers Skretting and Nutreco, has been appointed chairperson of aquaculture supplier AKVA group.

Feed manufacturer BioMar has raised its guidance for full-year revenue and EBITDA after reporting improved results for the first half of 2019.

Mowi Scotland has exported 594 tonnes (gutted weight equivalent) of salmon directly from five pens at its Portnalong site on Skye to the port of Hirtshals in Denmark on the Hav Line processing boat Norwegian Gannet.

Cooke Aquaculture has reached a cooperation agreement with aquaculture supplier AKVA for the potential delivery of several large land-based smolt projects.

Chilean aquaculture regulator Sernapesca is coordinating emergency planning with 25 fish farms near a volcano that has shown signs of activity.

Aquaculture health, nutrition and genetics company Benchmark has said it continues to face challenging conditions in the global shrimp and Mediterranean seabass/bream markets, as outlined in its half year results in June, which has impacted sales volumes in its Advanced Nutrition division.

The value and volume of Scottish salmon exports both increased by 25% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2018, new figures show.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) is inviting members of the aquaculture industry interested in developing research projects with academia to brainstorming sessions in Edinburgh and Oban.