Tag: Nofima
Cod that eat pellets have same quality as wild caught fish. A short-term cod feeding trial suggests that the quality of wild fish around fish farms is not harmed through intake of salmon feed, according ...
Preparing for more species for aquaculture. Nofima is developing a methodology for following up health challenges that may result from climate change and growth in the farming of new species. There are still less than ...
Mowi Consumer Products UK choose Maritech Eye™ quality scan. We are pleased to announce that Mowi Consumer Products UK has implemented Maritech Eye™ to further enhance the quality assessment of their Mowi brand smoked salmon. ...
New and quick sequencing technology will benefit food industry. Listeria monocytogenes is a big challenge for food producers as it can survive and grow in food products with a long shelf life and has a ...
Navigating the seafood regulatory jungle. Seafood companies in Norway that want to increase the value of their residual raw material and use it in new products must comply with a wide range of regulations, documentation ...
Nanomaterials will be important in the future of food packaging Nofima scientists have studied which nanomaterials are suitable for encapsulating natural antimicrobial agents. The purpose is to make food packaging greener. The most important reason ...
Larval stage stress can make salmon more robust in the future Many methods are used to ensure that farmed salmon thrive, stay healthy and grow quickly. Nofima scientist Erik Burgerhout is working on programming the ...
New side effect of PD vaccines. Cross-stitch vertebrae are a type of deformity in farmed salmon that is initiated by oil-based vaccines used to prevent pancreas disease (PD) in salmon, according to an article on ...
Norwegian seafood industry did well in first stage of pandemic. The Norwegian seafood industry and the specialised supplier industry did well through the first phase of the pandemic. Total value creation in the seafood industry ...
Majority of Norwegian salmon farms are family owned. The majority of Norwegian salmon farming companies are family-owned, but on average family-owned companies have fewer permits and produce less than other such companies. After having identified ...
Herring offcuts could become fish sauces for gourmets. Norwegian enterprises are developing high-quality fermented fish sauces based on leftover raw materials. The market potential is huge. Fermented fish sauces are everyday products in Southeast Asia. ...
Challenges of utilising the whole fish. The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood has received a new report from Nofima. It points to obstacles that business actors and researchers face in the work of utilising ...
Nofima launches Millennial Salmon Project Nofima has launched the Millennial Salmon Project with partners across the value chain to accelerate the development of sustainable solutions for the future of farmed salmon. The goal of the ...
Promising disease research on salmon in RAS facilities A new research facility in Norway for infection studies in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) provides more relevant research for the RAS industry. Preliminary results also show that ...
Culture must change if more women encouraged into fishing industry. A new report by Nofima on gender equality in fisheries concludes that if the proportion of women in fisheries is to increase, culture and attitudes ...
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. His work involved analysing a ...
Norwegian researchers win fish health prize. Nofima researchers Carlo C. Lazado and Elisabeth Ytteborg have been awarded the Norecopa 3R Prize for their outstanding efforts to advance strategies for reducing the number of laboratory animals ...
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 article on the Nofima website. ...
Removing flavour from fish offcuts. Nofima’s doctoral research fellow Silje Steinsholm has used a magnetic tongue to identify flavours that may make fish offcuts suitable for human consumption. On 12 April, she publicly defended her ...
Norway explores how to get more women employed in fishing. Fewer than four per cent of Norwegian fishermen are women. Nofima has now been commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Industry and Fisheries to identify ...
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