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Aquaculture data analytics disrupter Ecto has raised $7 million in financing, led by the Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund and Aqua-Spark. Over the past two years, the Ecto team have been developin…

Singapore RAS, which aims to be the first Atlantic salmon producer in the Southeast Asian city state, has selected where to source its ova from.

Samherji fiskeldi has announced plans to produce 40,000 tonnes of salmon in a land-based facility that will be powered by geothermal energy.

Benchmark Genetics is one of the main suppliers of salmon ova for land-based production facilities – both RAS and flow-through – around the world. This has given them a unique insight into how the…

Stofnfiskur has recently completed the delivery of 400,000 salmon eggs to three customers in China - reflecting plans to expand the country's fledgling salmon farming sector.

MSD Animal Health has acquired the fish farm monitoring specialist Vaki from Pentair.

A programme to seed up to a million salmon egg in rivers in north east Iceland has been launched this autumn.

A new trial suggests that diets containing micro-organisms produced from waste wood look promising for salmon aquaculture.

A new programme to train fish farmers in Iceland’s burgeoning aquaculture sector has been established by Arnarlax Ltd and the Icelandic College of Fisheries.

Salmon should be harvested during periods of low growth to ensure the best fillet quality, according to newly published research.

SalMar has become the majority shareholder in Arnalax, Iceland’s largest salmon producer, in a deal worth £16 million.

A new project investigating sterility in farmed Atlantic salmon has been launched today, following the signing of an agreement between Benchmark Genetics and the University of Iceland.

Grieg NL has chosen Benchmark Genetics to supply them with triploid ova for their soon-to-be established sites in Newfoundland over the next five years.

In a move that suggests an increased focus on the farmed whitefish sector, Marel Fish has appointed Diego Lages as its new sales director for Marel Fish.

Plans to expand Iceland’s salmon farming industry are moving forward, with the delivery of a new 450-tonne capacity AKVA feed barge to the new Icelandic producer Arctic Sea Farm.

Icelandic salmon egg producer Stofnfiskur is now able to grow fish to market size within 11 months in its land-based facility at Kalmanstjørn.

This week, SalmoBreed and StofnFiskur will begin collecting data from hatcheries for their annual Ova Survey – both in order to ascertain how well their salmon eggs have performed in the course of…

A grading system, which can sort even lumpfish as small as 0.5 grams, is now commercially available, following the development of a novel design by Stofnfiskur and Vaki, a Division of Pentair Aquatic…

The UK should follow the example of its northern neighbours Iceland and Norway when it comes to managing fisheries – because they have been far more successful than the EU at conserving stocks and…

The Iceland Sustainable Fisheries (ISF) capelin fishery has achieved MSC certification the first capelin fishery in the world to do so.

Salmon farmers in Iceland are aiming to increase production levels by 500% in the next five years, according to the countrys leading salmon producer.

Stofnfiskur, the Icelandic salmon ova producer, is working to combat infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) on three fronts by capitalising on its unique natural biosecurity advantages, screening for HPR0,…

ICELAND - Congratulations to slandsbleikja, Icelands first processing plant to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in early February.

ICELAND - An Icelandic fishermen strike has ended after vessel owners and the majority of fisherman reached an agreement on salaries.

ICELAND - Farmed in cool Icelandic waters is a fish that is in growing demand throughout Europe and the US yet in short supply the Arctic char.

ICELAND - Arctic Fish has become the very first aquaculture producer to achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Certification in Iceland.

ICELAND - StofnFiskur hf in Iceland has been approved by the Chilean Fisheries and Aquaculture Authorities, Sernapesca in accordance with the OIE Compartment standard for all of their four salmon…

ICELAND - Iceland Sustainable Fisheries (ISF) has extended its programme of MSC certification by adding Icelandic ling to its growing list of MSC certified fisheries.

ICELAND - An outbreak of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) has been reported in Iceland. This is the first time that VHS has been detected in the country.