The man who led the development of online aquaculture training courses at the NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway, Shetland has had his 20 years’ long service recognised.

Faroese salmon farmer Bakkafrost is planning to invest around 350 million Danish kroner (£39m) a year from 2020 to 2024 in the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), which it bought last year.

Organisers of a conference for aquaculture feed professionals that was due to take place March 24 in Bangkok have cancelled the event because of fears about coronavirus.

Scottish Sea Farms’ operating profit in the last quarter of 2019 fell by more than two thirds compared to the same period in 2018, co-owner Lerøy said in its Q4 2019 report today.

Salmon farmer Australis has become the sixth Chilean producer to have its products banned from sale in Russia after the chemical compound crystal violet was allegedly discovered in its fish.

German store chain Kaufland will this week become the first retailer in the country to put salmon fed with omega-3-rich Veramaris algal oil on its shelves.

Contract research company the Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT) has finalised a deal to buy an aquatic animal research facility from Elanco Animal Health in Victoria, Prince Edward Island (PEI).

Trout fed with a pioneering diet that incorporates algal oil has gone on sale in France this week.

The Mowi Scotland sea site where a man lost his life in a workplace incident yesterday is in the Kyle of Lochalsh area, Police Scotland said today.

Scotland’s salmon processors were today coming to terms with the UK government’s announcement of a new points-based immigration policy that could deprive them of a vital source of labour from the European Union.

Salmon farming in Scotland has achieved its best environmental performance, according to statistics collected for the Compliance Assessment Scheme (CAS) operated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

Mowi Scotland last night reported the death of an individual in an incident at an unnamed marine site.

Salmon farmer Blumar has become the second Chilean producer to insist that exported fish alleged by Russia to contain the antibiotic oxytetracycline (OTC) have never been given the drug.