Archive for September 2022
Scholarships announced for Europe’s top-rated aquaculture master’s degree
The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) and Erasmus Mundus are funding scholarships on the 2023-2025 Aquaculture, Environment and Society (ACES) Joint Master Degree programme. Students on this two-year programme study at three centres of European excellence in aquaculture research: Nantes Université, University of Crete and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), a partner of…
Read MoreOcean Kinetics invests heavily in marine plant hire service
Fast-growing marine engineering and fabrication specialist Ocean Kinetics – based in Shetland, Aberdeen, and Oban – has continued its business development and stepped up its range of services through a significant investment in marine plant and equipment, which it is now offering to customers on short, medium and long-term hire deals. The company has built…
Read MoreScientists to discuss nanoparticle threat in farmed seafood
Researchers at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Portugal will be presenting findings tomorrow on the potential health hazards caused by tiny particles in seafood. Engineered nanoparticles are increasingly used in a variety of contexts, but one unintended consequence is that they can end up in the marine environment and, therefore, in the human…
Read MoreSeafood Innovation Fund calls for bright ideas
The UK’s Seafood Innovation Fund is offering a further round of £3m to support novel, practical solutions for the seafood industry. This time, the Fund’s management says, applications for an even wider range of projects than ever will be welcomed. The Seafood Innovation Fund is part of the £100m Seafood Fund. The latest tranche of…
Read MoreNew plan for pollution threat U-boat
The Norwegian government may be about to come to a compromise solution over what to do about the wreck of a German wartime submarine which could pose a major pollution threat close to an important fishing and fish farming area. U-864 was torpedoed near the Vestland island of Fedje in February 1945 by the Royal…
Read MoreBakkafrost takes delivery of all-electric workboat
Bakkafrost has taken delivery of its first fully electric catamaran as part of the company’s strategy to increase the use of sustainable energy. The company’s CEO, Regin Jacobsen, has used the launch to call for greater investment in the Faroes power grid in order to help wean industry off its dependence on fossil fuels. The…
Read MoreBK Marine offers cage cleaning solution
Aquaculture technology is constantly evolving and BK Marine collaborates with its customers to keep up with new developments, so that the quality of product and safety of production conditions continue to improve. BK Marine’s cage cleaner has proved its efficiency for four different companies across a range of sites. The company believe that it has…
Read MoreCoastal Workboats Scotland announce Landing Utility Vessel availability
Coastal Workboats Scotland is due to complete its next stock LUV2208 in collaboration with Damen Shipyards during December this year. This latest incarnation of the now proven Damen Landing Utility Vessel design comes on the back of successful deliveries into the Scottish aquaculture sector with the most recent LUV2208 (Tiffany II) having now been in…
Read MoreMoen Marin leading the green revolution
The transition to a greener fleet with electric power propulsion is well underway in fish farming, according to Moen Marin, the world’s largest supplier of electric and hybrid workboats to the aquaculture industry. The Norwegian company’s market forecast for 2022 predicts that close to 80% of the newbuilds they deliver this year will be vessels…
Read MorePatoGen hires Johanna Baily as senior adviser
Fish health diagnostics business PatoGen has appointed Dr Johanna Baily as Senior Adviser in Histopathology. PatoGen, which has its headquarters in Ålesund, Norway, has been operating in Scotland since 2014 and opened a laboratory in Oban last year, offering preventive and diagnostic services to the salmon industry in Scotland. PatoGen has recently entered into a…
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