Innovation & Investment
Steel cage salmon farm designer ramping up with capital infusion
Poseidon Ocean Systems recently netted $5 million in funding to build inventory, enhance engineering and increase international sales efforts.
Aquafeeds
Nofima launches collaborative project to develop sustainable ingredients for farmed salmon
Nofima has launched the Millennial Salmon Project, a collaborative research initiative to develop sustainable ingredients for farmed salmon.
Innovation & Investment
Not RAS, not net pens: Salmon farm concepts redefine barriers
Sea lice, algae, temperature changes and escapes still vex salmon farmers, but new cage systems aim to surmount these concerns with innovative barriers.
Health & Welfare
How can Norway defeat pancreatic disease in salmon? By detecting it faster.
Polish pathogen diagnostics group will soon launch a test system that can identify the costly pancreatic disease (and six others) in just 10 minutes.
Responsibility
British Columbia salmon farmers wary of liberal government’s aquaculture plans
The Canadian Liberal Government’s announcement of Aquaculture Act left the industry feeling anxious while some stakeholders say they were completely left out of the process.
Intelligence
RAS believers making an early stand on American soil
RAS is an emerging sector with two producers leading the U.S. pack, responding to high demand for Atlantic salmon and for local, low-impact food.
Innovation & Investment
Farmers deploy new high-tech tools against sea lice
Salmon farmers in Norway are trialing two new technologies, including one from Silicon Valley, in their ongoing battle with the persistent sea lice.
Innovation & Investment
Africa’s first land-based salmon farm a landmark for Lesotho
A Singapore-based company aims to make Lesotho, a nation of 2 million people, known for a local fish that’s truly anything but local: Atlantic salmon.
Responsibility
Fish farmers seek non-lethal deterrence for persistent predators
Seals have always preyed on Scotland’s salmon farms. As their population rises, producers seek alternative deterrence techniques to solve the problem.
Responsibility
Report calls for changes to Scottish salmon sector
Wide-ranging recommendations to the Scottish salmon sector include increased government oversight and mandatory reporting of disease outbreaks, fish mortalities and sea lice numbers.
Intelligence
Surveys say? Salmon farmers can win consumers’ trust
Surveys shared at the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmer Association’s 2018 Aquaculture Forum show that consumers aren’t completely swayed by negative media.
Innovation & Investment
AquaGen CEO: Genomics are transforming aquaculture
The CEO of AquaGen knew that the Norwegian research group’s work in genomics was key to the salmon industry’s future. And that was before she even worked there.
Intelligence
On the Job: Scottish salmon stalwart signs off after 41 years
As Steve Bracken retires after more than four decades of fish farming, he reflects on his career producing Scottish salmon and shares his well-earned perspectives on aquaculture’s past and future.
Intelligence
Wanted: More omega-3s. But from where?
Cargill and Australia’s Nuseed are both investing large sums of money in the development of a genetically modified canola oil rich in DHA. Meanwhile, a leading nutritionist casts doubts on the necessity of omega-3s from fish.
Intelligence
Location matters most for newest Maine RAS venture
A leader at one of the new Maine RAS ventures talks ambitions for his group and the growing land-based aquaculture industry, with his home state at the epicenter of North American operations.
Intelligence
Canadian salmon farmers: ‘Leave us out of your shutdown’
The potential of a salmon-farming ban in Washington state is being monitored closely next door, in British Columbia, where many more salmon farms operate. But they’re not worried about a spillover effect.