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Farmed salmon experience faster sexual maturation and health challenges in warmer waters. Norway’s Institute of Marine Research scientists, investigated how water temperature can affect farmed salmon. “We investigated how water […]
Farmed salmon are stressed by noise. Very loud noise over time can cause chronic brain stress in farmed salmon, but they cope well with most sounds in fish farms. Author: Øystein […]
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 […]
The public are being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily fish contain essential nutrients […]
Scottish farmed salmon production decreases. The Scottish Government has published the Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2022. The publication details statistics on the employment and production from Scottish fish farms. […]
Krill delivers dietary choline needs of farmed salmon. A new study, conducted in collaboration with Professor Åshild Krogdahl and Associate Professor Trond Kortner at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at […]
Due to their feed, chicken and farmed salmon have remarkably similar environmental footprints. The key is in the feed, said UC Santa Barbara marine ecologist Ben Halpern, director of UCSB’s […]
AKVA group signs contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon AKVA group has signed a contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon (I.L.F.S.). A Smolt facility will be built in Vestmannaeyjar – […]
Scientists from Nofima have been looking into peracetic acid as an alternative treatment for amoebic gill disease (AGD) in sea-farmed salmon. The initial results are very promising. The preliminary findings […]
New study on bacteria in farmed salmon gut. The intestines of animals are teeming with bacteria, affecting how animals digest their food. Studying these microbes is therefore an interesting part […]
Doctoral degree on farmed salmon using large-scale production data. PhD Fellow René Alvestad at Nofima successfully defended his doctorate at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) earlier this week. […]
Covid pandemic sees Scottish farmed salmon exports fall by 23 per cent in 2020. The worldwide Covid pandemic had a significant and damaging effect on exports of Scottish salmon in […]
Scottish farmed salmon production soars Marine Scotland Science has published the Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2019. The publication details statistics on the employment and production from Scottish fish farms. […]
Decline in use of antibiotics in farmed salmon. The Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) today published its annual Sustainability Report, which documents the environmental performance and nutritional profile of farm-raised salmon. […]
Climate change bad news for farmed salmon. Researchers have evaluated how climate change could affect Norwegian salmon farming over the next 50 years. Ocean temperatures off the Norwegian coast have […]
New Zealand-farmed King salmon has a lower carbon footprint than beef, lamb and cheese. A just-released study has found that New Zealand-farmed King salmon sold domestically has a significantly lower […]
Benefits of krill meal and krill oil for farmed Atlantic salmon. New study shows that krill meal and krill oil fulfill the dietary choline needs for growth in farmed Atlantic […]
Fitness of farmed Atlantic salmon unaffected by virus. The respiratory systems of Atlantic salmon function normally even when carrying large loads of piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), new University of British Columbia […]
New frontiers in salmonid biology. Diseases and disorders affecting the heart, skin, and gills are major challenges to salmon health and welfare. SIS Frontiers will explore new frontiers in understanding the […]
Mowi Scotland marks 60 years of raising salmon. Mowi Scotland is celebrating 60 years dedicated to raising the finest salmon from sea to plate. From the rugged west coast, Mowi salmon is […]
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