Trident Aqua Services delivers Scotland´s largest wellboat. Delivered from Sefine Shipyard in December 2025, the 93-meter live fish carrier Inter Alba entered operation and successfully completed its first work period, […]
Omega-3 and zinc: A powerful duo in salmon feed. It has now been documented that the interplay between nutrients in feed is crucial for salmon to achieve optimal growth, robust […]
Lice that fall off during spawning can infect new salmon. The lice survive for up to three weeks before they have to find new hosts. Up to 40% of motile […]
Holistic health and welfare strategy helps drive up survival rates. Scottish Sea Farms saw a significant improvement in fish health last year with a 41 per cent reduction in mortality over […]
Much improved fish health and biology for Mowi Scotland in 2024. A good performance for Mowi Scotland in 2024 with significant improvements in salmon health, welfare and performance. The year […]
Bigger and better Shetland reaps the rewards of integration. A programme of investment, consolidation and restructuring has produced ‘game-changing’ results in Shetland since Scottish Sea Farms acquired Grieg Seafood almost […]
The status of fillet colour in Norwegian farmed salmon. Nofima has mapped the status of and what could pose pigmentation challenges in salmon fillets among Norwegian fish farmers. According to Nofima […]
Salmon farmer’s seaweed scheme wins M&S award Scottish Sea Farms has been recognised at the M&S Select Farm Awards 2023 for a pioneering trial to encourage the settlement of seaweed […]
‘Next generation’ vessel goes to work for Scottish Sea Farms. A next generation treatment vessel will go into service this week for Scotland’s second biggest salmon farmer, Scottish Sea Farms, […]
Benchmark promotes Stenerud and Holmvåg in new leading commercial roles to sustain successful sales growth of the salmon product range. Effective May 1, the company has promoted Kate Furhovden Stenerud […]
Now is the time to put research into practice, say international lumpfish experts. The use of lumpfish is a key tool in the management of sea lice across international aquaculture, […]
New boat builds on success of sister ship. As new vessel, the Eloise Eslea, arrives in Shetland for final fit-out, The Source caught up with project leads Keith Fraser and […]
Cleaner fish trial looks to AI and imaging technology to help pick best delousers. A new video tool will reveal the best candidates for one of the most important jobs […]
Fish given a ‘kelping’ hand through new research funding of £125,000 from the Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) Kelpring – the company behind a tool that mimics wild seaweed habitats – […]
Challenging third quarter for Bakkafrost. Bakkafrost Group made a profit for Q3 2021 of DKK 131.3 million (DKK 176.8 million). For the first nine months of 2021, the profit was […]
Bakkafrost pleased at performance of hatcheries The Bakkafrost Group delivered a total operating EBIT of DKK 407.5 million in Q2 2021. Total harvested volumes were 28.2 thousand tonnes gutted weight […]
Aquaculture experts aim to strike the right ballan-ce for cleaner fish. A group of researchers is aiming to determine the best possible conditions to help ballan wrasse to grow and […]
Cleaner fish project looks for candidates with a bold personality. Aquaculture initiative to determine optimal conditions for Ballan wrasse-salmon interaction. It has long been thought that people’s personality traits determine […]
Major R&D efforts still required regarding closed sea-based facilities. Cermaq has now started the third round of salmon production in closed containment systems, without having to delouse, according to an […]
HAV Design develops most environmentally friendly salmon transporter. HAV Design has developed a live fish carrier with the smallest climate and environmental footprint in the world per kilo of transported […]