Good quality and improved quality control are important for salmon producers. Effective measurement methods that investigate how light scatters through the flesh of the fish can be of great help.
Jon Hulland, Senior Fish Health Inspector with CEFAS, looks at the use of rotenone to eradicate Gyrodactylus salaris (GS) in Norway.
Salmon farmers see record prices in early 2011 drop to money losing levels in no time. 2012 outlook negative from mid year as production is expected to increase by up to 15 per cent, according to Globefish.
With salmon prices reaching extraordinary highs last year, Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor speaks with Alf-Helge Aarskog, CEO of Marine Harvest to get a global market outlook.
This short discussion paper by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) examines the arguments in favour of public access to environmental information around salmon aquaculture and the benefits for producers, and reviews the current arrangements in...
Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports from Aquaculture Europe 2011, where John Sweetman, Alltech looked at natural means to prevent against parasites.
The availability of the required quantities of high value marine fin fish seed is the major prerequisite for the initiation and expansion of fin fish mariculture.
Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD), caused by the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum, is a systemic, chronic infection of salmonids that has been reported throughout the world wherever salmonids are cultured or occur naturally (with a few exceptions...
European legislation (EC directive 2006/88) requires that fish farms are individually ranked for the risk of disease introduction and spread, to enable risk-based surveillance (RBS).
Fernando Flores, Novartis Animal Health gave an update of the sea lice situation in Chile at AquaNor 2011. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.
A 22-month trial with Atlantic salmon in a commercial scale farm in Norway demonstrated the practicality of using feed with low levels of marine protein. The trial followed a complete generation of salmon from smolt to harvest.
The Chilean salmon industry is recovering surprisingly well following the 2007 ISA crisis, according to Patrick Dempster, General Manager of AquaGen Chile, Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.
Coho salmon are returning from the ocean to spawn in the Russian River and its tributaries in numbers not seen in a decade, raising a glimmer of hope that a hatchery programme may be helping the endangered species.
A combination of climate change and the introduction of farmed salmon into wild populations is shaping regional genetic patterns of Atlantic salmon in northern Spain.
The negative effects of releasing fish and the possible fragmentation of natural fish stocks in connection with hydropower regulations may be fewer than at first feared, says the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science.
















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