The market-setting spot price of Norwegian salmon rose last week with what is the second largest price jump in a week ever.

Closed cages in the sea provide the ability to control the water environment and ensure optimal conditions for fish health and growth, and are beginning to be adopted in Norway, particularly for smolts. 

The sales joint venture Ocean Quality owned by Grieg Seafood and fellow Norwegian salmon farmer Bremnes Seashore is to be dissolved and divided between the companies.

A restaurant-quality fillet that can be enjoyed at home has given the Scottish Salmon Company an increasing hold in the French retail market.

Aquatech company CageEye has joined an industry-wide effort to improve the long-term sustainability of the aquaculture sector in Chile and beyond.

Canadian salmon farmer Cooke Aquaculture has started direct delivery to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chilean fish farmer Salmones Camanchaca has said that around 85,000 salmon died when a 12-cage module was wrecked during bad weather but believes a relatively small number of fish escaped.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed a business engagement director. Sarah Riddle, whose role will be to help drive innovation and support overall growth across the aquaculture sector, has more than 17 years of experience in the industry.

Scotland’s fish farmers are being asked their views on enriching the environment in which fish are grown, and how practical such measures could be.

Trials with infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) virus show that family lines of salmon genetically selected for resistance to the disease are no longer as protected as they once were because the virus has changed.

Chilean aquaculture authority Sernapesca in investigating a “highly probable” escape of fish at a Salmones Camanchaca farm in which a cage pontoon was badly damaged by bad weather.

The market-setting spot price of Norwegian salmon last week rose to its highest price since the beginning of the country’s coronavirus lockdown in late March.

Joint research by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and rainbow trout egg producer Troutlodge has shown that genomic selection can double the prediction accuracy for bacterial cold water disease (BCWD), caused by the bacteria Flavobacterium psychrophilum.