Good demand will support high seafood prices in the first half of 2022, an aquaculture analyst at Dutch lender Rabobank said today.

A plan to establish Scotland’s first salmon farm using floating, semi-closed pens has been granted a permit from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

Teams competing to sell the most fish-free feed sold more than 3,000 tonnes of feed in the first three months of the contest, but only 145 tonnes have gone to the salmonid industry.

Mowi takeover target NTS today released a company presentation giving details of its business and anticipated salmon harvest volumes for 2022 and 2023.

An initiative that uses redundant salmon farm buoys to make compost bins has won a sustainability award in Chile.

Researchers in Norway have been granted NOK 10 million (£832,000) to look at the possibilities of safely using fish farm sludge as a feed for animals such as black soldier fly, which could then be used to make protein for fish feed.

US cell-cultured fish company BlueNalu has announced a collaboration with multinational sushi restaurant operator, Food & Life Companies Ltd (F&LC), which runs more than 1,000 restaurants across Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Mainland China.

Fish farmers in Chile may be asked to tender for aquaculture concessions that would come with new sustainability requirements if a bill introduced to the country’s Senate is progressed.

Terry A’Hearn, chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), has resigned following conduct allegations, SEPA announced this afternoon.

Norwegian trout farmer Firda Seafood Group has become the latest company to order a floating semi-closed containment system (SCCS) for growing smolts to a larger size before stocking them in net pens.

Marine technology supplier OTAQ has appointed former Vaki area manager Gareth Hammond as business development manager for its aquaculture division.

Glenn Cooke, chief executive of salmon farmer Cooke Inc., has given his backing to the staging of Seafood Expo North America (SENA) in March, following the decision of high-profile companies such as Cermaq, Mowi, and Peter Pan to pull out of the event because of the risks posed by the omicron variant of Covid-19.

Salmon farmer Cermaq Canada reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 76 tonnes last year by using a new fish farm aeration technology now also being trialled in Scotland.