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Salmon farmer counts £2.5m cost of algal blooms

Salmon farmer counts £2.5m cost of algal blooms

Chilean salmon farmer Salmones Camanchaca has estimated that the deaths of 162,000 fish due to reduced oxygen levels caused by ongoing algal blooms will have a financial impact of US $3.5 million (£2.5m).

First-ever global report on harmful algal blooms

First-ever global report on harmful algal blooms

An analysis of almost 10,000 harmful algal bloom (HAB) events worldwide over three decades is to be published after seven years of work by scientists.

Storms cause salmon deaths in Newfoundland

Cooke Aquaculture has blamed severe winter storms for unusually high mortality at a farm near Baie d’Espoir on the south coast of Newfoundland, eastern Canada.

US: state-run fish farm loses 6.2m fry after power cut

US: state-run fish farm loses 6.2m fry after power cut

Up to 6.2 million chinook salmon fry died last weekend when a windstorm cut power to a government-run hatchery in Washington state in the western United States and the facility’s back-up generator failed.

Oxygen fault killed 500,000 smolts at new hatchery, reveals Marine Harvest

Oxygen fault killed 500,000 smolts at new hatchery, reveals Marine Harvest

Marine Harvest Scotland lost half a million smolts when a fault occurred in the ‘failsafe’ system delivering oxygen to fish at its flagship Inchmore hatchery in August, the company has revealed.