Bakkafrost has reported mixed results for Q3 2024, with strong biological performance in the Faroe Islands offset by financial challenges in Scotland, as the company navigates low salmon prices and…
Triodos Food Transition Europe Fund – an investment group focussing on the development of sustainable food systems – has taken a minor equity stake in Ocean Rainforest, a Faroese producer and…
Ocean Rainforest, which grows kelp in the Faroe Islands and California, has secured a €2.5 million investment, in a round led by Triodos Food Transition Europe Fund.
The 2024 edition of Seagriculture EU - a leading conference event for the seaweed farming industry - successfully took place last week, attracting over 200 attendees from 25 different countries.
The 2024 edition of the Seagriculture EU conference will explore the current trends and challenges faced by the global seaweed industry, from cultivation to harvesting and innovation.
Hiddenfjord, a family owned Faroese salmon farming company, has been granted the highest BAP certification - making it the first company to achieve this level in the Faroe Islands.
The Peruvian authorities have announced that the second fishing season for anchovy and white anchovy in the North-Centre of the country will be officially closed on 13 January.
Ocean Rainforest, one of the most advanced kelp farming companies in the West, has secured $4.5 million in funding from the US government, which will allow it to start producing giant kelp on a large…
Norwegian scientists are attempting to ascertain whether the rapid growth of juvenile salmon could lead to health issues when they are transferred to sea cages.
Ocean Rainforest has raised a $6.2 million investment, enabling it to expand its kelp farming operations in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Eastern Pacific Rim as well as accelerate product and…
Over 50 major players in the European seaweed industry convened in Tórshavn last week to officially launch the SeaMark Horizon Europe project. Over four years, partners will deliver 12 seaweed-based…
Increasing the size of post-smolts in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is not necessarily as wise as many in the salmon sector think, according to a leading aquaculture consultant.
Olavur Gregersen, managing director of Ocean Rainforest - one of the North Atlantic’s pioneering kelp farmers - talks about the Faroese firm that he founded and the future of the kelp farming sector.
A new project to establish the best practices for the production of large salmon smolts and to assess how these large smolt perform at sea has just been launched by Nofima.
Independent research has revealed that Hiddenfjord, a family-run Faroese salmon farming company, has nearly eliminated its transportation-related CO2 emissions.
Up to 10 percent of the global salmon supply could be produced in offshore systems by the end of the decade, according to a new report published by Rabobank today.
Ocean Rainforest, the pioneering seaweed producer, which currently operates in the Faroe Islands and California, has developed the techniques and the market for large-scale kelp cultivation, and has…
Faroese kelp farming firm Ocean Rainforest, which is also conducting cutting-edge trials in California, has announced the closure of a $1.5 million funding round this week.
Whether the upswing in salmon sales in supermarkets during the Covid-19 pandemic will be maintained once restaurants reopen is the subject of debate among salmon producers.
A veterinary scientist in the Faroe Islands has been credited with helping to halt the spread of Covid-19 in the archipelago by adapting tests previously used to detect infectious salmon anaemia…
Bakkafrost, the largest salmon producer in the Faroes, believes that its current DKK 3 billion programme of investment is helping to deliver its long-term ambitions to expand.
A new system to remove sea lice from salmon is set to be deployed in Chile after Cermaq signed an agreement with Sea Farm Innovations (SFI) to support the development of SFI's new system.
Despite reporting losses amounting to DKK 6.6 million in the final quarter of 2018, Bakkafrost has reported a profit of 960.3 million Danish kroner (£112.6 million) in 2018.
An outbreak of algae – possibly caused by agricultural run-off – is suspected as the cause of 750,000 mortalities at a salmon farm in the Faroe Islands last week.
Ahead of the UK’s most important aquaculture exhibition and conference (May 23 & 24), Landia has supplied chopper pumps and a mixer for a new, integrated Faroe Islands factory trawler.
Bakkafrosts farming segment harvested 13,200 tonnes at an EBIT of NOK 34.27 per kg in the first quarter of the year an impressive margin despite facing a number of biological challenges.
FAROE ISLANDS - Faroese fisheries landing over half a million tonnes of oily fish each year have been MSC certified as sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
FAROE ISLANDS - Bakkafrost's salmon farm in Gtuvk is now Aquaculture Stewardship Council certified. This makes Gtuvk the first farm in the Faroe Islands to be ASC certified.
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