Tag: sea lice
Snorkel salmon pens reduce sea lice infestation. Physically separating salmon from salmon louse larvae reduces infestation of salmon by 75 percent compared with a normal sea cage, according to an article on the Norwegian Institute ...
Feed strategies in parasite control. A new £300,000 study involving University of Stirling experts and a leading animal feed manufacturer is aiming to explore how certain feed ingredients can reduce infections in farmed fish. Stirling’s ...
Benchmark Animal Health Innovation Awards finalists. Benchmark Animal Health is nominated for CleanTreat, a system which cleanses the treatment water after delousing in well boats. – Chemical based bath treatments that are released into the ...
Cleaner wrasse deliver boost for Wester Ross Fisheries. As we peered into the fish pen at the Wester Ross Fisheries Ltd site at Ardmair near Ullapool on the north-west coast of Scotland, the sleek torpedo-shaped ...
Progress on delivering sustainable aquaculture welcomed by SAIC. Heather Jones, CEO of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), said: “The management, control and prevention of sea lice is critical to the future of fish health ...
New aquaculture legislation from the Scottish Government, welcomed by SSPO. The Scottish government announced plans to introduce legislation to make the weekly reporting of sea lice data statutory, one week in arrears. Legislation will be ...
Aquaculture leaders pledge to confront sea lice threat. The Scottish salmon industry expressed a clear commitment to increase investment in tackling sea lice during 2019, according to a poll conducted by SAIC, the Scottish Aquaculture ...
Mowi defends industry practices on Panorama programme. Mowi Scotland mounts a stiff defence of the salmon sector following last night’s (20 May) BBC TV programme, Panorama, which questioned whether salmon farming is sustainable and investigated ...
BioMar eliminates cataracts in lumpfish with a new feed diet. Cataracts are unfortunately a common eye condition in lumpfish affecting at least 60% and as much 100% of fish with the average condition being a ...
Sales agreement for AKVA and Flatsetsund Engineering. AKVA group and Flatsetsund Engineering have entered into sales agreement for their salmon delousing system. “In AKVA group we believe in supplying technology that promotes good biology,” says ...
Cermaq will use a new tool in Chile to combat sea lice – a mechanical system that is based on flushing with clean sea water with ambient temperature to remove the sea lice, thus safeguarding ...
Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, SSPO announces lowest sea lice levels in six years. and big reduction in spend on medicinal treatments. The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) yesterday (Tuesday 26th March) announced a major step ...
Scots salmon producers call for tighter sea lice enforcement. Julie Hesketh-Laird, CEO of Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, has written to Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy to call on Marine Scotland to tighten enforcement ...
Decline in Wrasse fishing effort in Devon. Onboard surveys in Devon have found there has been a decline in fishing effort for wrasse destined to be ‘cleaner fish’ on salmon farms A fishery for the ...
Lumpfish genome mapped. The entire DNA sequence encoding the genes (genome) of the lumpfish (lumpsucker) has now been mapped, enabling the study of all the genes that contribute to traits such as growth, disease resistance ...
Peppermint shrimp have been identified by scientists as the ‘cleaner shrimp’ with the most talent for reducing parasites and chemical use in farmed fish, according to an article by James Cook University. Fish and cleaner ...
A major milestone achieved in sea lice control as two of Scotland’s leading salmon farmers have reported a breakthrough in the drive to control sea lice in the most responsible, sustainable and environmentally-friendly way. Marine ...
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