Biotechnology

A new project that aims to speed up the development of a strain of salmon with higher tolerance against the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) starts next month in Norway.

Benchmark’s revenues rose from £109 to £140 million in the 12 months up to September 2017, cutting the aquaculture biotechnology specialist's losses by two thirds.

A genomic method to improve resistance to salmon rickettsial syndrome (SRS) – a disease that costs the Chilean Atlantic salmon industry more than $100 million a year – could reduce mortality rates of…

Trials and analyses of feeds including omega-3-rich oil from genetically-modified (GM) canola indicate that it promotes good growth rates in salmon and contains no GM DNA.

Two fledgling biotech firms, one of which uses cutting edge technology to eliminate antibiotic use in fish farming and the other improves fish genetics, have secured investments this week.

KnipBio has received order for several tonnes of its innovative fishmeal alternative, KnipBio Meal (KBM).

As the search for the best way to produce sterile farmed fish stocks continues, novel methods such as germ-cell migration disruption could offer good alternatives to inducing triploidy, according to…

A team of Japanese researchers has hailed dried salmon milt (sperm) as a miracle product for its ability to extract rare earth elements (REEs) from ore.

New strains of Nile tilapia that are more resistant to disease and more effective at utilizing feed are being developed by WorldFish.