Quality Salmon, which plans to produce up to 100,000 tonnes of salmon per annum at an on-land facility in Sweden, has signed a letter of intent with the infrastructure division of Finnish multinational water, heating and cooling specialist Uponor.

Nearly 5.4 million farmed salmonids have been transferred to different sites to safeguard them from harmful algal blooms (HABs) that have now killed 4,244 tonnes of fish spread across 18 farm sites in Chile.

Five Scottish salmon farms have had their RSPCA Assured certification reinstated after inspections found no evidence to support claims made by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and anti-fish farm activists about poor welfare.

A new fish farming service vessel that survived being thrown off a freighter in a storm is looking “surprisingly good” but won’t be put to work for a little while yet.

Salmon farmers Cermaq Canada and Mowi Canada West have been granted more than Can $1 million between them under a scheme to fund clean technology projects for fisheries and aquaculture in British Columbia.

Scotland’s newest salmon farmer, Organic Sea Harvest (OSH), has taken delivery of a UK-built landing craft utility vessel from Netherlands-based international shipbuilder Damen.

Scottish Sea Farms co-owner SalMar harvested 36,900 gutted weight tonnes of salmon in Norway and Iceland in the first quarter of this year, it said in a market update.

Scottish Salmon Company owner Bakkafrost harvested 14,000 gutted weight tonnes of fish in the Faroes in the first quarter of this year, and 7,000 gwt in Scotland.

Salmon egg supplier Benchmark Genetics has appointed experienced on-land aquaculture expert Andrew Cree Preston as its global technical manager for RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems).

A cargo ship carrying three fish farming workboats is drifting without power in stormy seas off the coast of Norway and may run aground.

Mowi Canada West has won its court bid to continue stocking two closure-threatened salmon farms in British Columbia.

Poaching is an age-old problem in rivers, but it can also be an issue for aquaculture, so much so that in western Greece one company has employed private security firm G4S to guard some of its Mediterranean fish farms. It’s a first for G4S, which explains here how it has gone about an unusual task.

Chilean fish farmer Salmones Camanchaca has now lost 1.3 million salmon to due a harmful algal bloom (HAB), it said in a market announcement yesterday.