Archive for August 2022
Sharing expertise
A new e-learning collaboration makes welfare training for lumpfish care more accessible. Swansea University has made the E-learning on lumpfish welfare course more accessible to fish farmers working at Mowi – the world’s largest supplier of farm-raised Atlantic salmon. Swansea University, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research (CSAR), a global reference in fish welfare research and…
Read MoreNature’s solution
The natural carotenoids from Panaferd-AX have benefits for RAS farms. Colour is the symbol of salmon and a good pigmentation is considered as a major quality parameter in the industry. Meanwhile, demands from the markets all over the world lean towards more products free of any synthetic additives when possible. Natural pigment sources such as…
Read MoreInflation forces AquaBounty into slowdown
AquaBounty, the American company which has developed the first genetically modified salmon, is slowing down part of its growth plans due to inflation and rising interest rates. AquaBounty this week announced 2022 second quarter sales of US $1.1 million and a slightly higher net loss of $5.5m. The company said the delay mainly affects its…
Read MoreCooke salmon teams join Newfoundland fire fighting operation
Cooke Seafood’s Canadian aquaculture division has sent specialist teams and equipment to help communities cut off by potentially devastating wildfires in Newfoundland. Cooke Aquaculture said the aid includes vessels and a dozen crew members from its Hermitage-based salmon farming operations. They are helping to supply rural coastal Newfoundland communities as fire fighters battle two massive…
Read MoreSelective science
Readers of my reLAKSation blog will know that I have repeatedly referred to the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy committee meeting of 18 November 2020 in which SEPA’s Head of Ecology said that sea lice from salmon farms are not responsible for the decline of wild fish. I keep mentioning this because the wild fish sector…
Read MoreThe August 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online
The August 2022 issue of Fish Farmer magazine is out now and you can read it here. Our cover this month celebrates Kames Fish Farming, which this year is marking a half century of raising steelhead trout. For one of the pioneers in Scotland’s fish farming industry to be still operating as an independent, family-owned…
Read MoreResearchers report salmon mixing success
Research scientists in Norway have made important progress in their efforts to solve the problem of farmed salmon mating with wild salmon when they escape. By turning off a special gene with the CRISPR method (a genetic engineering technique in molecular biology by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified), a team at…
Read MoreBAADER hires Jón Birgir Gunnarsson as CSO
Jón Birgir Gunnarsson has joined BAADER as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer (CSO), for Skaginn 3X and BAADER Ísland as of August 8, 2022. He will be based in Reykjavík. Gunnarsson is well acquainted with Skaginn 3X as he led the successful development of its new brand identity and image when he led sales and…
Read MoreCooke swoops for major European shrimp processor
The Cooke Seafood group, one of the world’s largest salmon farming companies, has acquired Morubel NV the leading shrimp and prawn processor in Western Europe. Belgium based Morubel cultivates, processes, packs and distributes shrimp and other seafood products. It also distributes its market-leading organic and frozen products to retail, foodservice and food industry customers across…
Read MoreHome truths
Sometimes you can just see it when the penny drops. I was with an MSP on an island salmon farm not so long ago. The MSP – it would be unfair to name them – had listened politely to all the talk about salmon farming health and welfare, rearing and harvesting without really engaging. But…
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