Norway faults fish farms for 1.2 million escapes
OSLO - Norway faulted about 50 fish farming companies on Wednesday for escapes by 1.2 million salmon, cod and trout last year in a new bid to put pressure on firms to tighten their nets.

Lightly salted saithe fillets to Spain
NORWAY - Seafood-consuming Spaniards can have more products from which to choose. A new research project will study the market possibilities for frozen, lightly salted saithe in Spain.

Greece's Nireus acquires 17.9 pct of Norway's Marine Farms
NORWAY - Nireus announces the acquisition of 17.9% of the Norwegian Company Marine Farms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company said it acquired 6,557,497 shares based on the closing price April 16th of 23 NOK (2.85 €) per share.

More research on live storage of caught cod
NORWAY - Cod achieves a 30-40 % higher price when it is brought to land live, yet little fish is delivered live. A new international project can explain why.

Increasing value of exported seafood
NORWAY - The export value of Norwegian seafood reached NOK 9.8 billion in the first quarter, an increase by NOK 1.4 billion - or 16.5 per cent compared with the same periode last year.

Intervet Participates in the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates
OSLO - Karen Elina Christie (Intervet Norbio, Bergen) recently gave a talk at the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates in Oslo (Norway) in April, 2007. The topic covered was the development of a challenge model for efficacy testing...

Focus on feed
NORWAY - Feed research is increasing in step with a growing aquaculture industry. Fiskeriforskning has feed as one of its special areas and is therefore co-organiser of the Aquafeed Horizons Conference in the Netherlands.

Farmed escaped salmon traced with DNA
NORWAY - A fish farm in western Norway is currently under police investigation after being identified by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) as the source of a salmon escape. This is the first example of DNA methods being used to trace farmed escaped...

Differentiating salmon
NORWAY - Salmon producers are competing for customers, but what are they doing to stand out? And is it profitable to focus on salmon with distinctive characteristics?

Making Salmon 'Stand Out'
NORWAY - Salmon producers are competing for customers, but what are they doing to stand out? And is it profitable to focus on salmon with distinctive characteristics?

Norwegian shrimp can reduce high blood pressure
NORWAY - Preliminary studies done by Fiskeriforskning show, for example, that shells and heads from Norwegian shrimp likely have a very high content of protein bits that can reduce high blood pressure.

Seafood export value breaks new record
NORWAY - The value of Norwegian seafood exports jumped by around NOK 1 billion in the first two months of this year, propelled by higher prices and volume.

Studying breeding cod
NORWAY - For the first time, cod from the Norwegian Cod Breeding Programme are being slaughtered. It is now possible to compare properties of the different families, such as fillet weight and liver size.

Shortage of fresh fish
NORWAY - Despite increased demands for fresh fish, increasingly more frozen unprocessed fish is being exported. To increase the landings of fresh fish, one possibility is to redistribute quotas.

Freshwater fish on the go
NORWAY - Increasingly more people want to start farming of freshwater fish such as charr and perch. Marketing and production are amongst the topics at a special conference on freshwater aquaculture.