Grieg Seafood’s fifth and final Atlantic salmon farm in Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia has received Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification, making Nootka Sound Grieg BC’s first fully ASC-certified region.

Grieg Seafood Shetland improved its salmon survival rate, harvest volume and financial performance in the first quarter of this year, its Norwegian parent company Grieg Seafood ASA said in its Q1 2020 report.

Salmon farmers in British Columbia are jointly donating more than 27 tonnes of fish to hard-pressed food banks in the province.

New faces from the salmon farming industry have been added to the board of the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) following elections at the group’s annual general meeting.