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.

'Culture' differences will expand environmental studies on aquatic microbial ecology
UK - A new three-year project at CEFAS - 'Utilising molecular techniques to assess the relative roles of environmental and human pressures on aquatic microbial communities' - aims to investigate the response of archaeal and bacterial communities...

Scottish Fishermen’s Federation to meet with UK Fisheries Minister
SCOTLAND - The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation will hold its first meeting with new UK Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw today (1 October) in London.

Fish billionaire in plea to save wild salmon
UK - The world's largest seafood company is coming under intense pressure to shift its fish farms further out to sea after its largest shareholder claimed the industry was helping to kill off wild salmon and trout populations.

New strategy to boost seafood industry
UK - A unique and untested partnership to prepare Shetland’s most important indigenous industry for future challenges was launched yesterday afternoon (Tuesday).

New guidelines for fish farming
UK - The Scottish Government has today published the Environmental Impact Assessment Practical Guidelines Toolkit for Marine Fish Farming.

Breeding project to define knowledge gaps
UK - A new EU research project will promote the use of genomic tools in farmed fish production. The benefits to the industry are thought ot be substantial and the aquaculture sector is being urged to support it.

SSPO calls for more co-operation with wild side
SCOTLAND - The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO)has been swift to reassure wild fishery interests that effective containment remains a priority. Sid Patten, chief executive of the Organisation says the industry deeply regrets all breaches...

Pollution causes fish kill on London river
UK - Officers from the Environment Agency are investigating reports of a pollution incident that has killed at least 2,000 fish along a 5km stretch of the River Wandle in south London.

Seals blamed for escape of salmon
UK - Up to 30,000 salmon are thought to have escaped from a fish farm in the Western Isles sparking concerns among anglers about an adverse impact on wild fish. Pan Fish Scotland, which runs the Vuia Mor site in West Loch Roag, Lewis, said it regretted...

Fish kill costs water companies £40,000
WALES - Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and its contractor United Utilities have been ordered to pay more than £20,000 each after pleading guilty to polluting the Taf Fechan in Pontsticill, with approximately three tonnes of waste aluminium sulphate.

Great salmon escape could turn wild fish into ‘couch potatoes’
UK - They are an identical species, but while one is lean and incredibly fit, the SAS of the fish world, the other is an obese, idle creature, a couch potato with fins. When the two interbreed, the results can be a genetic disaster.

Roger Williams opens doors to state’s only shellfish hatchery
UK - Roger Williams University opened its doors to the state's only shellfish hatchery.

Serious fish disease discovered
UK - DEFRA have advised all Kent Fisheries that a serious fish disease has just been discovered at Eureka Fishery on Eureka Business Park.

Wild salmon infected with 'bleeding' parasite
UK - Thousands of wild Atlantic salmon returning to Scotland's rivers have been infected by a mysterious parasite that has left them with bleeding wounds.

Wildlife Trusts scale up 'Petition Fish' campaign
UK - Sea Vision partner Wildlife Trusts is scaling up its Petition Fish campaign, in support of the Marine Bill, with the introduction of Bernard the Gurnard, an animated online petition.