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

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

Pharmaq Reveals Norwegian Vaccine Sales
NORWAY - The production of S1 2009 ready for sea entry ended above 130 million.

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...

VHS Virus Infects Fish via Their Gills
NORWAY - Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) is a highly contagious disease of rainbow trout in fresh water, causing great economic loss in the European trout farming...

Norway and India Team Up on Disease Resistant Fish
NORWAY - New genetic technologies are being developed by Norwegian and Indian scientists to give tiger shrimp and rohu carp improved resistance against disease.

The Changing Face of ISA
NORWAY - Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is one of the most economically-damaging diseases in Norwegian fish farming industry.

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...

Pollution Disturbs Norwegian Cod Hormone Balance
NORWAY - New research shows that environmental pollutants in Store Lungegårdsvann in Bergen affect gene expression involved in detoxification mechanisms and hormone...

Study Sees Problems for Farmed Salmon Vaccines
NORWAY - A Norwegian study recently looked at the effects of vaccine-induced autoimmunity in farmed salmon and found that inherent problems may significantly effect...

Dangerous Bacteria Present in Norwegian Seawater
NORWAY - While working on her doctorate, Anette Bauer Ellingsen discovered potentially disease-causing vibrios (Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus)...

New Toxins Found in Shellfish
NORWAY - Trine-Lise Torgersen described in her doctorate new variants of diarrhoea-causing toxins in mussels, oysters and crabs.

Study Examines Purity of Norwegian Shellfish
NORWAY - The level of undesirable substances and microorganisms in shellfish from Norwegian waters was examined by the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood...

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...

New Disease Identified in Cod
NORWAY - Farmed cod have recently been hit by a serious disease caused by an unknown bacterium. In his doctorate, Jarle Mikalsen contributed to the identification...

Norway Boosts Disease Resistant Shrimp and Carp
NORWAY - New genetic technologies are being developed by Norwegian and Indian scientists to give tiger shrimp and rohu carp improved resistance against disease.

Tracking Escapes and Wild Salmon Genes
NORWAY - Wild salmon are done spawning in the rivers for this year, but a few too many farmed salmon have escaped from their cages, spreading their roe and milt....