Archive for January 2022
UK seafood facing more export hurdles
FURTHER big changes are coming this year in the way the UK seafood sector trades with Europe, Seafish, the industry watchdog has said. Seafish experts have pulled together what companies can now expect. It says Seafood businesses have been adapting to trade with the EU since the end of the EU exit transition 12 months ago,…
Read MoreKeeping downtime low for feed conveyors
It is not only high capacity in the conveyors that matters in feed handling. It is also important that the machines are, as far as possible, self-cleaning. This is to avoid contamination of different products, but also, with fish feed pellets, to avoid mixing of pellet sizes. FM BULK HANDLING designs its machines for slow…
Read MoreNew Programme of Support for Highland Aquaculture Business Ventures
Aquaculture businesses based in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland will benefit from a new fully funded accelerator programme that helps them turn their innovative new ideas into reality. The focus of the programme is to deliver rapid, practical results for ambitious businesses with new ideas. Participants are taught and coached by a team of…
Read MoreThe January 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is online now
The January 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is out online now, and you can read it here. This month we look at examples of fresh thinking, from the ambitious design for an “Ocean Ark” floating fish farm for locations far out at sea, to the Finnish inventors who have found a way to repurpose old…
Read MoreSeafood Scotland launches new tourism initiative
Seafood Scotland has launched an innovation programme to stimulate new seafood tourism initiatives. The pilot will see the trade body work with organisations to explore and support business diversification and to establish new tourism opportunities for the Scottish seafood industry. The aim is to inspire seafood organisations to exploit the huge growth in food tourism…
Read MoreNew salmon giant created
THE world’s sixth largest salmon farming company was created yesterday following the merger between Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) and SalmoNor. The two NTS controlled businesses formally signed an agreement worth an estimated NOK 8.3 billion (£686m) allowing NRS Farming to buy 100% of the shares in SalmoNor from NTS. The new set-up will eventually be…
Read MoreResearch grant for mouthrot vaccine study
Benchmark Animal Health and international salmon farmer Cermaq Group AS are to receive funding for a collaborative research project to develop a new vaccine against salmon diseases caused by Tenacibaculum bacteria. The grant of NOK 4.2 million (around £350,000) comes from the Research Council of Norway. The partnership couples the biotechnology and fish health innovation…
Read MoreFiiZK, Ecomerden announce merger
Two leading producers of semi-closed fish farming cages, FiiZK and Ecomerden, have merged. In a joint statement, FiiZK and Ecomerden said: “The integration of the companies has already begun to ensure a successful and efficient merger process with customers and suppliers. FiiZK and Ecomerden are leading players in the development and delivery of semi-closed cage…
Read MoreSalmon farmers sue over coral reef ban
Three companies have begun court proceedings against the Norwegian government over its refusal to allow fish farming near an important coral reef. The trio, Troland Lakseoppdrett, Langøylaks and Austevoll Melaks, operate in the Kinn Municipality on the central coast of Norway. Yesterday they began proceedings at Hordaland District Court in a bid to get the ban…
Read MoreMowi cools on China restaurant plan
Reports from Norway suggest that Mowi may have cooled on plans to open hundreds of salmon restaurants across mainland China. The company has so far declined to comment on the reports, but the respected business newspaper and web outlet Dagens Naeringsliv says that it has been told the project had stalled and that Mowi will…
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