Protecting Wild Trout – Your Views Needed
UK - Fishery experts, fish farmers and fisheries managers from across England and Wales have been meeting with Environment Agency fisheries scientists, as part of a review into how the native wild brown trout population can be protected, whilst continuing...

Shellfish men want government support to reap real potential
UK - Scotland's frustrated shellfish industry has appealed to Government to help lift the restrictions it says is hampering expansion and access to a potential £120 of annual earnings.

Making salmon sexy - New moves to boost career prospects
SCOTLAND - A new initiative to improve education and training in the salmon industry is desperately needed. As the salmon farming industry must be developed into a much more attractive career prospect for the right people, according to industry leader,...

Salmon successes on the screen
UK - Footage of Scotland's successful Area Management Agreements, which are benefitting wild and farmed salmon interests can been seen online and on DVD.

Taste of the wild comes home
UK - Taste seafood, and you taste the wild. Presumably this image is part of its appeal. If so, it is an image which is rapidly falling out of step with reality, because the proportion of our seafood which is farmed is surprisingly big, and growing f...

Farming the Future
UK - The percentage of seafood being farmed rather than caught is close to 50 per cent, and growing quickly, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

New blow as fish firm shuts
UK - Up to 20 people have lost their jobs as yet another Grimsby fish factory closes its doors.

Profits surge for scots salmon firm
UK - Scottish salmon company Landcatch reports a surge in operating profits.

Could exotic fish provide economies of scale for struggling Scots farmers?
UK - Where there's warm water there's brass.

Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management
SCOTLAND - The ACFM report issued today by the International Commission for the Exploration of the Seas gives the scientific advice for a range of fish stocks of importance to the Scottish fishing industry.

Clean Seas UK bound
UK - Kingfish from Cleans Seas Tuna's operations at Fitzgerald Bay on Eyre Peninsula will be on the shelves of Sainsbury's supermarkets in Britain from today.

Public support for Marine Bill
UK - Proposals for better protection and better regulation of the seas around Britain have received broad public support.

Russian first for Salmon breeder
UK - Scottish-based salmon breeder Landcatch has despatched the first ever delivery of salmon smolts into Russia from anywhere in the world.

Decline is over, sights set on quality growth
SCOTLAND - Salmon production in Scotland is rising and looks set to increase this year. This is good news for an industry that has seen decline in recent years, says a new report from the Fisheries Research Services, that's out today.

New survey reveals attitudes to fish farming in Scotland
UK - More people in the Western Isles favour an expansion of the salmon farming industry than those in any other region of Scotland, according to an EU funded survey.

Toxic pesticide again in use on salmon farms
UK - Salmon farmers are again using a toxic pesticide years after it was thought to have been phased out. The chemical, teflubenzuron, known commercially as Calicide, and is given to salmon to kill sea lice parasites.

Welsh wooden route gets fish on their way
UK - Environment Agency Wales have just completed an innovative fish pass project, at Cynghordy, on the River Bran in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire - it's made of wood.

Cornish firms express interest in new fish market
UK - Newlyn's harbourmaster has confirmed that five local businesses and one Plymouth company have expressed an interest in running the new fish market.

Call to breed fish in farm barns
UK - Researchers are encouraging farmers to grow fish in unused barns as a way of boosting their income.

Agreement calms stormy salmon waters
SCOTLAND - A deal has been agreed that hopes to end the long-running conflict between fish farmers and anglers in the Scottish islands.

Scottish Fishermen’s Federation Welcomes Fisheries Ministers' Meeting
SCOTLAND - Commenting in the meeting at Peterhead this afternoon between the Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Irish Fisheries Ministers, chief executive Bertie Armstrong said: “This is the fist such meeting and it is both timely and welcome.

Marine Harvest to float PFS and OHS by December
SCOTLAND - World leading salmon producer Marine Harvest, is planning to float Pan Fish Scotland (PFS) and the Stornoway-based Outer Hebrides Seafood (OHS) on the stock market before the end of the year.