Mini Submarine Harvests Sea Urchins
NORWAY - Diving is currently the most common method in Norway for harvesting sea urchins. In the future, the divers may be replaced by a remotely-operated underwater...

Potential For Fishmeal-Free Salmon
NORWAY - A growing list of functional feed ingredients is delivering potential for productivity, health promotion and sustainability in aquaculture. Skretting Aquaculture...

Cod with Personal Identity Numbers
NORWAY - There is a big baptism party at the Norwegian Cod Breeding Centre in Tromsų this autumn as 30,000 cod juveniles receive their own personal identity num...

WWF Concerned over NAFO Agreement
GLOBAL - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has expressed its concerns that the recent Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) agreement did not go further to...

Nofima to Focus on Capture-Based Aquaculture
NORWAY - Nofima is to set up a Centre of Excellence for capture-based aquaculture in Tromsų.

King of Norway Urged to Protect Canada's Salmon
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY - At Aqua Nor, a biannual international aquaculture trade show, the Pure Salmon Campaign will call upon King Harald of Norway to insist that Norwegian-owned...

Conservationists Concerned over Cod Farming
NORWAY - Conservationists are concerned at the growth of European cod farming following new figures released last week.

Pure Salmon Calls for Marine Harvest Eco Reform
OSLO, NORWAY - Members of the Pure Salmon Campaign coalition, a diverse group of stakeholders from key farmed salmon production and consumption nations including...

MSC Certification Comes in Threes for Norway
NORWAY - Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for three Norwegian fisheries was awarded at the European Seafood Expo in Brussels.

New Disease Poses Big Threat to Norwegian Farms
NORWAY - Ruth Torill Kongtorp established during her doctorate that a new disease called heart- and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a serious infectious disease...

Marine Harvest Incur Losses of 2.8 Billion NOK
CHILE - Marine Harvest, the world's largest aquaculture company, suffered losses amassing to over 2.8 billion Kroner over the course of 2008. The company says that...

Norway Proposes Global Guidelines on Discards
NORWAY - Norway has put forward a proposal on developing international guidelines for by-catch management and reduction of discards to the UN's Food and Agriculture...

An End to Cod Farming in Norwegian Fjord
NORWAY - The Norwegian Directorate for Fisheries has ruled that they will end cod-farming in the Trondheim fjord in case it jeopardises important wild salmon...

Success in Norway for Landcatch Smolts
NORWAY - A third Norwegian salmon farm is currently on-growing smolts from Landcatch Scotland, completing a year of exceptionally good performance in Norwegian...

Norway and EU Resolve the Issue of Fish Discards
NORWAY - Norway and the European Union (EU) forged a bilateral fisheries agreement for 2009 to resolve issue on fish discard, the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal...