Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO) chef ambassador Shaun Rankin has been awarded a coveted Michelin star for his eponymous restaurant – Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall, Ripon.

Seafood Scotland has hired the services of two experienced export consultants to help tackle the post-Brexit administration issues that have had a debilitating impact on trade to Europe over the last four weeks.

A new wellboat due to go on a contract with Mowi Scotland has arrived in Norway for final testing. The Aqua Skye is just over 84 metres long and 16m wide, and has a net well volume of 3,900m³.

Feed producer Skretting has announced a collaboration with Proteon Pharmaceuticals to co-develop products using bacteriophage technology to support fish farmers as part of a holistic health strategy.

Scottish Salmon Company marine director Alan Sutherland has been appointed to the board of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC).

Salmon farmer Organic Sea Harvest (OSH) is considering contesting a decision to reject its application for a fish farm at Balmacqueen, north-east Skye.

The UK’s biggest aquaculture trade show, Aquaculture UK, has been rescheduled from May 2021 to May 2022. The event, which was due to take place on May 19-21, will be deferred to the new dates of May 3-5, 2022 at the Macdonald Resort in Aviemore, Scotland.

Opponents of salmon farming in British Columbia expect a resurgence in wild salmon numbers if and when a government decision to close 19 net pen sites in the Discovery Islands is carried out. But that is not the experience just across the border in the US state of Washington, where net pen Atlantic salmon farming was banned in 2018.

Salmon prices will be much better this year, driven by lower production that will be seen mainly in the Chilean industry, a seafood analyst has forecast.

Salmon processing plants in Quellón in Chile are carrying out mass testing of all their workers following an upsurge in Covid-19 infections in the commune.

Data stolen in a Christmas Eve cyber-attack on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), which regulates some aspects of fish farming, has been illegally published online.

A new study shows that different variants of PRV (piscine orthoreovirus) have different abilities to induce heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) in salmon.

Cermaq Norway has reported the escape of an undetermined number of fish after the net of a pen holding 107,000 salmon was torn during a de-lousing operation.