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Seafish sets out priorities to help UK seafood sector
Seafish has announced that it plans to deliver on seven priorities to help support a thriving UK seafood industry. Seafish’s latest annual plan for 2024-25 details its intended activities for the current financial year. The seven priorities are: ensuring a...
Atlantic Sapphire shares fall as founders sell up
Shares in Atlantic Sapphire, the Florida land-based salmon company, dropped sharply in Oslo yesterday after news that its two founders had sold their holding in the business. It was on Friday evening that Johan E. Andreassen (pictured) and Bjørn-Vegard Løvik,...
AKVA takes control of AI business Observe Technologies
AKVA group has taken full ownership of the UK aquaculture related artificial intelligence business Observe Technologies. AKVA, the world’s largest supplier of aquaculture solutions and services, has had a one third stake in the business since February 2021. Based in southern...
Sector welcomes new government’s commitment to growing Scottish salmon exports
Trade body Salmon Scotland has welcomed indications from incoming Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds that the newly elected Labour Government will be seeking better trade relations with the European Union. Speaking on Sky News yesterday, Reynolds was responding to a comment...
Iceland land-based company raises additional €6m
The Icelandic salmon farming company Laxey has successfully raised €6m (just over £5m) in a new issue which has attracted a number of Norwegian investors. Laxey is building a land salmon farm in Vestmannaeyjar, off Iceland’s south coast, said the capital...
Nordic Aqua reporting high quality from new China farm
Nordic Aqua Partners, the Norwegian company developing a new land-based salmon farm in China, has announced a first operational harvest of 523 tonnes. CEO Ragnar Joensen said: “We are pleased about the highly sustainable biology, the low mortality and the...
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WellFish Tech – Fish health redefined
You may have heard it said that whilst a jet engine is a complex system, it only becomes complicated when a bird passes through it. Understanding the difference leaves us...
Algal oil for a better fish
RaySon algal oil, an alternative source of omega-3 specially for salmon feed, improves the quality of the final product for consumers and boosts the immune system. Xiamen Huison Biotech Co...
Peri-Scope offers fast plankton analysis
Fish farmers now have a powerful new tool at their disposal with the launch of the Peri-Scope Quantitative Plankton Classifier. This innovative device allows for real-time, on-site analysis of plankton...
Seawork looks ahead to 2025
Seawork, the European commercial marine and workboats exhibition, connects businesses to showcase innovations, solutions and new products. The event, taking place over 10-12 June 2025, features demonstrations, launches and announcements,...
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Features
Assuring value
The Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers’ conference addressed the industry’s challenges, but also the benefits it offers to our food security and the environment. Robert Outram reports. The 2024 conference...
A new frontier
The latest wave of land-based farming projects represents an exciting new era for aquaculture, but is the ambition matched by practicality? Fish Farmer’s expert panel considered the question in our...
Navigating choppy waters
Industry estimates suggest that seafood production is due for a period of growth after a difficult spell. The Responsible Seafood Summit included several presentations on the performance and prospects of...
Course work
Last month the golfing mecca, St Andrews, hosted another major international event: the Responsible Seafood Summit. Robert Outram was there. Last year it was St John’s, in New Brunswick, Canada....
Opinion
A blank sheet of paper
By Nick Joy How can this be? I sit here with a blank sheet of paper the day following one of the most critical Budgets in the last two decades...
There’s nothing new in the world
By Nick Joy Luckily, age has not dimmed my memory yet, so I can remember the first discussions about serious commercial RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems) farming of salmon. I thought...
Sense and sentinels
I have always been sure that it was unnecessary for Scottish Ministers to appoint a regulator to manage sea lice, writes Dr Martin Jaffa. As the weeks go by, I...
A positive spin
By Nick Joy My grandkids came to stay last week and I am currently sitting in a soft play centre in Forfar, having my hearing aids blown up by the...
Events
Leading climate change scientist to open Australian Seagriculture
Professor Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s leading writers on climate change, has been announced as the opening keynote speaker for the Australian Seagriculture Conference in March next year. The conference...
Aquaculture UK set for new venue in 2026
The next edition of leading trade show Aquaculture UK is moving to Glasgow, it has been announced. The organisers, Diversified Communications, said the show, which has been held in the...
Aquafuture Spain moves to Vigo for 2025 – and is set to be bigger than ever
The 3rd Edition of the international aquaculture industry show, Aquafuture Spain, will take place over May 20 to 22, 2025, at the IFEVI exhibition centre in Vigo, in the north...
Anchovy quota announced in Lisbon
Some uncertainty in the aquafeed industry has been relieved with the announcement that Peru’s next fishing season will start on 1 November, with a quota of just over 2.5 million...
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