Transgenic salmon producer AquaBounty and its majority owner, Intrexon, today announced that their jointly developed gene-edited line of tilapia, FLT 01, has been exempted from GM regulation in Argentina.

The decision to phase out 17 salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia is causing controversy across Canada.

Up to 6.2 million chinook salmon fry died last weekend when a windstorm cut power to a government-run hatchery in Washington state in the western United States and the facility’s back-up generator failed.

Chilean politicians have proposed that salmon farmers allocate at least 3% of their profits to fund research into the impact of their operations on the ecosystem and prevent damage to the environment.

A joint venture launched by two Shetland aquaculture service companies has ordered its first vessel.

In a ground-breaking decision the government of British Columbia (BC) has decided to phase out 17 salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago to help protect and restore declining wild salmon stocks.

In a historic move the Canadian government has decided to draft a new aquaculture act to help modernise the current fish farming industry systems and the aquaculture industry is showing its support.

Supermarket chain Auchan has begun selling its own-label insect-fed trout in 52 stores in northern France and aims to have the fish in all 641 retail sites in the country by the end of 2019, Feed Navigator reports.

On-land fish farm expert AquaMaof has signed a deal to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in the Vologda region of Russia. It will have a production capacity of 2,500 tonnes of market-size Atlantic salmon a year.

Canada’s federal government has announced measures to “change the way aquaculture is done” in the country by establishing a more holistic approach to the management of aquaculture, creating more jobs and protecting the environment.

Chilean politicians will vote this week on legislation that would require salmon farmers to remove sediment from farms.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has written to the UK Government to highlight the potential damage to Scotland’s aquaculture interests in the current European Union withdrawal agreement. 

Between three to four tonnes of salmon ended up scattered over the road after an articulated lorry carrying the fish hit a tunnel in Norway, ripping open the side and roof of the trailer.