Wester Ross Fisheries managing director Gilpin Bradley has complimented his staff’s commitment, passion and dedication after the salmon farmer reached the finals of the VIBES Scottish Environment Business Awards, run by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

Norway’s fisheries minister Harald Nesvik has told a conference in Bergen that he intends to “turn on the red light” that signals a reduction in biomass for some sites under the country’s “traffic light” system for salmon farming.

Scottish Sea Farms co-owner Lerøy Seafood Group (LSG) today blamed lower salmon prices and high ex-cage costs for a NOK 159 million (£13.5m) drop in operating profit for the third quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year.

Antibiotic use in Scottish salmon farming fell from 16.1 mg/kg in 2017 to 6.5 mg/kg last year.

Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) co-owners SalMar and Lerøy have denied any wrongdoing after being sent subpoenas from the US Department of Justice in relation to a probe into alleged price fixing.

Salmon farmer SalMar has pointed to lower salmon prices and weak results from its Northern Norway operation for a fall in year on year profits in the third quarter of 2019.

Scottish Sea Farms has lowered its projected harvest volume for 2019 by 3,000 tonnes to 27,000 tonnes following a third quarter in which its fish were hit hard by gill disease.

The Scottish Salmon Company PLC will get a new chairman and directors at an extraordinary general meeting on December 9 following the purchase of more than 80% of the firm’s shares by Faroese salmon farmer Bakkafrost.

The international Gill Health Initiative has issued a call for scientists to submit abstracts for its next meeting, GHI2020, which will take place in the Stirling Court Hotel in the grounds of Stirling University on April 1-2 next year.

Student chef Paul McLean has netted a day in the kitchen with Michelin-starred chef Martin Wishart after winning the #LoveScottishSalmon recipe competition. 

Mowi has published a letter of apology written by the company’s chief executive, Alf-Helge Aarskog, to Newfoundland and Labrador premier Dwight Ball and fisheries minister Gerry Byrne.

The Scottish Salmon Company’s new majority owner, Bakkafrost, has announced a mandatory offer the 19.23% of the company that it doesn’t already own.

The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA) has welcomed new rules being announced today that make it obligatory for fish farmers to publicly and quickly report any “incident event” such as the recent die-off of 2.6 million farmed salmon being grown by Mowi subsidiary Northern Harvest Sea Farms.