10,000 salmon escape from slaughter plant Around 10,000 salmon with an average weight of just under 4kg have escaped from a processing plant holding facility in Norway.
The jailhouse rocks! Aquatraz No.3 is launched after trial success The third Aquatraz cage built for Norwegian salmon farmer Midt-Norsk Havbruk was launched yesterday and will be delivered to the company at the end of the month.
LiceTube 2 is plunged into full-scale testing A Norwegian invention known as the LiceTube 2 is to be tested at full scale for the first time by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR).
Norwegian buying group takes a lead on green feed The 44 salmon farming companies who make up Norway’s Salmon Group purchasing cooperative have agreed a deal with BioMar for a tailor-made new feed that is lower in environmental contaminants and has a 20% lower carbon footprint.
Norwegians to study algae counter-measures in Canada Fish farmers from Norway are planning a trip to Canada to study how salmon farmers in british Columbia deal with harmful algal blooms (HABs).
Mørenot buys into cage market Norwegian aquaculture supplier Mørenot has acquired Danish salmon pen maker and fishing net producer Hvalpsund Net as part of its continuing expansion plans.
Norwegian premier christens ‘world’s fastest’ electric boat The Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, has officially named what its makers believe to be the world’s fastest serial-produced electric boat, Evoy 1.
Johnson Brexit plans prompt Norway seafood export fears Norway’s substantial seafood exports to the UK could be hit if soon-to-be Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes the country out of the European Union without a deal.
Norwegian salmon farmers put more fish in sea Norwegian salmon farmers set out 33 million smolts last month, an increase of 26% from the same period last year, according to figures from industry statistics organisation Akvafakta.
Mowi buys up Norwegian salmon farmer The world’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, is extending its capacity in Norway by agreeing to buy K Strømmen Lakseoppdrett AS for NOK 790 million (£73.8m).
Nova Austral lied about smolt numbers to create mortalities ‘buffer’ Chilean salmon farmer Nova Austral lied about the number of smolts it put to sea in order to create a “buffer” in the mortality figures it was reporting to regulator Sernapesca, it has been revealed.
Analysts: Norway algae crisis will push up Q4 salmon price The deaths of 8.2 million farmed salmon killed by algal blooms in northern Norway earlier this summer is likely to nudge year-on-year prices up in the fourth quarter of 2019, market analysts in Norway believe.
Try, try again: Spidercage turns the tide after rejection Norway’s Fisheries Directorate has changed its mind about a fish farm concept designed to open up new areas for aquaculture.
Seaborne bacteria blamed for ‘sudden and powerful’ disease outbreak Scientists have highlighted the threat of the seawater bacterium Tenacibaculum dicentrarchi to post-smolts after it was described as the cause of a salmon disease outbreak in Norway for the first time.
