NEW TECHNOLOGY: 'Wheely' Good Protection
SCOTLAND - An innovative, heavy duty support system for securing bird nets to salmon cages is finding favour with Scotland's leading fish farming companies.

Aquaculture Info Service to be launched for Scotland
UK - Scotland's own Aquaculture Information Bureau will be launched tomorrow in Glasgow.

Scotland Compromised in North Sea Negotiations
SCOTLAND - The conclusion of the EU/Norway negotiations to decide quotas for jointly managed North Sea stocks for 2008 has brought a mixed bag of fortunes for Scottish fishermen.

No help for farm attacked by jellyfish
NORTHERN IRELAND - Northern Ireland's government says there is no money available, as yet, to help the the province's only organic salmon farm to stay afloat.

Gildernew attends NSMC aquaculture and marine sector meeting
NORTHERN IRELAND - The aquaculture industry and marine tourism topped the agenda at a North-South Ministerial meeting this week.

Jellyfish attack wipes out fish farm
NORTHERN IRELAND - The only salmon farm in Northern Ireland has lost its entire population of more than 100,000 fish, worth about $2 million, to a spectacular jellyfish attack.

€11 billion deal seals SP buyout
NEW JERSEY - Schering-Plough Corporation has completed the acquisition of Organon BioSciences from Akzo Nobel. The deal has cost the company approximately Euro 11 billion in cash and creates the world's largest animal health organisation.

Natural antioxidants give feed the full organic stamp
UK - The Soil Association says it has reached its target of eliminating the use of synthetic antioxidants in its certified organic fish feeds. Only natural antioxidants are now permitted in its certified feeds and their ingredients.

Push to raise cod quota as one million tonnes of dead fish dumped each year
UK - Britain is to take on Brussels over fish quotas after it emerged that fishermen are being forced to dump nearly one million tonnes of dead fish into the North Sea each year.

New Chief Exec for FSA
UK - Former Chief Executive of the UK's leading dairy firm Arla Foods Tim Smith has been appointed Chief Executive at the Food Standards Agency.

New bid to save Scottish salmon
UK - A major campaign aimed at conserving wild salmon stocks in Scotland's rivers by trying to close coastal netting stations was launched yesterday.

Orkney salmon sector bounces back
UK - Salmon farming in Orkney is making a dramatic recovery with production set to increase after a period of serious decline.

Defra to ban some invasive species
UK - A new attempt is to be made to protect native British wildlife from predatory foreign invaders.

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.