Archive for October 2019
\’More questions than answers\’ in gender debate
THERE is no wilful exclusion of women from aquaculture roles, but there is a generational issue of men avoiding the ‘difficulty of having a more diverse workplace’. This was the view of Lara Barazi, CEO of Kephalonian Fisheries in Greece, one of six panellists (three women and three men) at a Women in Aquaculture seminar…
Read MoreWester Ross positive despite profit fall
WESTER Ross Fisheries, the independently owned salmon farming company, has reported a fall in profits and turnover for 2018, according to figures just posted with Companies House. No reason was given, but during high summer of 2018 the business suffered a ‘catastrophic’ fish loss caused by plankton which must have impacted on its financial performance.…
Read MorePrize idea to mark feed firm’s milestone
DUTCH feed company Nutreco has launched a competition to find outstanding young researchers committed to ‘Feeding the Future’. The prize, worth €25,000 in total, will be awarded to the most promising research by PhD and post-doctorate students working globally across animal, aquaculture and veterinary sciences. Any research relevant to this field, such as economics or…
Read MoreFast test to detect deadly heart disease
AN early warning system for one of farmed salmon’s deadliest diseases is being developed by a Scottish research consortium. Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS), a fatal viral disease which causes inflammation of the heart, is known to be caused by piscine myocarditis virus (PMCV), although the triggers for the disease are not fully understood. It can lead…
Read MoreOslo to spend millions protecting aquaculture
NORWAY has set aside 10 million kroner (around £900,000) to investigate the cause of the devastating algae outbreak which hit several salmon farms last May. The money, along with other measures to boost the country’s fishing and aquaculture industry, was announced this week in the national budget for 2020. The spring algae attack was one…
Read MoreMarket knowledge a ‘must have’ for farmers
KNOWLEDGE of the market is a must have for anyone who wants to run an aquaculture business, said German fisheries consultant Alexander Wever, who delivered the plenary talk on the second day of Aquaculture Europe 19 in Berlin yesterday. Wever, who has been in the seafood business for 25 years, spelt out the importance of…
Read MoreBakkafrost buys larger stake in SSC
BAKKAFROST yesterday completed the acquisition of more shares in the Scottish Salmon Company, taking its holding to almost 78 per cent. The Faroese salmon farming company bought a 68.6 per cent controlling interest in the Edinburgh based business last month in a deal eventually worth a total of £517 million. CEO Regin Jacobsen later said…
Read MoreSpotlight on students at Berlin show
A TRONDHEIM based PhD student was the audience’s choice for the EAS Student Spotlight Award, announced on day one of the European Aquaculture Society conference in Berlin today. Frank Thomas Mlingi, of NTNU, is researching lumpfish biology, investigating sexual maturation and egg quality in farmed lumpsuckers, under different photoperiod and temperature regimes. Reliance on wild…
Read MoreWarm seas, not sea lice, \’led to mass salmon deaths’
WARMING seas, not lice or other infections, were behind a recent high number of salmon deaths on parts of Canada’s east coast, an investigation has found. The probe was carried out by Daryl Whelan, Newfoundland’s chief aquaculture vet, and his team, who found that unseasonal warm water over a 13-day period last month caused oxygen…
Read MoreWarm seas, not sea lice, \’led to mass salmon deaths’
WARMING seas, not lice or other infections, were behind a recent high number of salmon deaths on parts of Canada’s east coast, an investigation has found. The probe was carried out by Daryl Whelan, Newfoundland’s chief aquaculture vet, and his team, who found that unseasonal warm water over a 13-day period last month caused oxygen…
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