Quality Salmon, which plans to produce up to 100,000 tonnes of salmon per annum at an on-land facility in Sweden, has signed a letter of intent with the infrastructure division of Finnish multinational water, heating and cooling specialist Uponor.

Bacteriophages would be a good tool in recirculating aquaculture systems, scientists in Finland say after discovering that the viruses survive up to 21 days in RAS and could be a long-term solution against bacterial diseases.

Scientists in Finland are progressing efforts to find a low-tech method of filtering discharge water from a recirculating aquaculture system so that it can go back into the RAS.

Wild Atlantic salmon spawning in the rivers where they were born have a “home advantage” in mating over those born in other streams, a four-year study in Finland has concluded.