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Seamless skirts: the latest fashion

Seamless skirts: the latest fashion

The industry’s first seamless lice skirts – which are supposed to be much more durable than their stitched equivalents – have been recently launched by Norwegian Weather Protection Aquaculture (NWP).

H2O2 proves popular in BC

H2O2 proves popular in BC

With an integrated pest management strategy in mind, Marine Harvest Canada has applied for the use of Paramove (hydrogen peroxide) at additional farm sites in BC.

Risk of Stofnfiskur eggs rated as “acceptable”

Risk of Stofnfiskur eggs rated as “acceptable”

Sernapesca has now rated the risk of roe imports from Iceland as "acceptable", after the embargo enforced in late October 2015, for Stofnfiskur.

Pharmaq success acknowledged

Pharmaq success acknowledged

Pharmaq has been voted 2015’s best animal health company in Europe by Animal Pharm, one of the leading online business intelligence companies for the animal health sector.

Stocking levels down 13%

Stocking levels down 13%

Stocking levels of all Chile's three salmonid species fell by an average of 13.1 per cent in 2015 compared to the previous year.

Scots set Chinese standard

Scots set Chinese standard

A project that has helped to revolutionise tilapia production in the Chinese state of Hainan, owes its success to adopting the production model used by the Scottish salmon industry.

Diagnostics debate proves lively

Diagnostics debate proves lively

The areas that most require diagnostic improvements in Scotland’s salmon industry were discussed and debated at length at a workshop organised by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovative Centre (SAIC) yesterday.

Vaccine sales up y-o-y

Vaccine sales up y-o-y

332.4 million doses of salmon vaccines were sold in Norway last year, up from 322.9 million doses in 2014.

Fresh start for fish vaccination specialists

Fresh start for fish vaccination specialists

Aqualife, the leading fish vaccination company, has relocated to two new sites in Stirling.

ISA claims rubbished

ISA claims rubbished

A recent paper published in Virology Journal, which claims to have found infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAv), for the first time ever, in British Columbia salmon, has caused outrage for its shoddy methodology and has been labelled a blatant exercise in scaremongering by both Canada's salmon farming and scientific communities.

Finding could revolutionise feed industry

Finding could revolutionise feed industry

New research suggests that a previously unheralded fat found in herring could improve salmon’s ability to store the key long chain fatty acids EPA and DHA – in a discovery that could, ultimately, have great implications for both the aquafeed industry and human health.

Brits back microbiome project

Brits back microbiome project

Cefas and the University of Exeter and are heading a £1.97 million BBSRC-Newton Fund project to develop and apply new molecular biology techniques to reduce the impact of major diseases in aquaculture for small-scale farmers in India, Bangladesh and Malawi.

PRV/HSMI link questioned

PRV/HSMI link questioned

Despite correlative evidence suggesting that heart and muscle inflammation (HSMI) is caused by piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), a recent study has failed to find any causative effect.

Striking benefits of low fat feeds

Striking benefits of low fat feeds

Low fat, high protein feeds can reduce mortality by over 50% in salmon infected with PD and HSMI, according to new research by Nofima.

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