A bipartisan bill designed to help fish farmers and fisheries managers mitigate the impact of double-crested cormorants has cleared the United States House Natural Resources Committee and now heads…
The Polish Government has held a conference focusing on the impact that Europe’s burgeoning population of cormorants is having on aquaculture, fisheries and biodiversity – in a bid to bring the issue…
Thailand's Department of Fisheries has reported progress towards achieving its goal of controlling invasive populations of blackchin tilapia, providing benefits for aquaculture producers throughout…
Nestlé Purina PetCare Europe has announced its involvement as a founding member of the Norwegian Marine Restoration Initiative (NoMaRe), a new collaborative platform dedicated to advancing…
A new salmon welfare scorecard has been developed and trialled by Compassion in World Farming, reporting the performance of eight major salmon producers against 13 key welfare parameters, in the…
A unique ROV-deployed system to repair small holes in fish farm nets has recently been launched by Underwater Contracting (UCO), a provider of underwater services to the offshore energy, inspection,…
Loch Long Salmon – a company seeking to bring semi-closed containment aquaculture technology to Scotland for the first time – is organising a supply chain event in May to discuss the project’s…
In a “missed opportunity”, the Trossachs National Park in Scotland has rejected the advice of Scottish Government advisors and blocked a plan to develop a salmon farm in its waters.
Paulo Tahara, who farms tilapia at Estância Tahara, in São Paulo state, hopes that the practice and financial benefits brought about by improving the welfare of the fish on his farm will help…
Collectively managed ”sea allotments”, which produce mussels for consumption by local communities, are a growing trend in Denmark, as more people bid to produce environmentally sustainable – and…
Batakrushna Sahoo, who hails from Odisha state in Eastern India, is one of the region’s most revered farmers, having played an instrumental role in fish production for over three decades.
The three Fernandez Muniz brothers are pioneering a new form of shellfish farming on Galicia’s Ria de Arousa – ongrowing clams in lantern nets in order to improve the fortunes of the thousands of…
New data released on 22 November shows that more than 1 million farm-raised salmon are expected to have been killed by seals in the two years to the end of 2021.
Following the ban on seal shooting, which came into effect on 31 January, Scotland’s salmon farmers are seeking compensation for fish lost to seal attacks.
From May 2019 to May 2020 more than half a million farmed salmon in Scotland died as a result of seal attacks, according to the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO).
Scottish Sea Farms has reported a significant reduction in "last resort" seal shootings as its investment in rigid new pen netting systems surpasses £5.7 million.
Cross-border cooperation is needed to protect vulnerable fish species including salmon and eels from depredation by cormorants, according to the organisers of a recent event.
Knifefish are a problem fish in the Philippines as they eat tilapia and milkfish, but the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is now using knifefish as a raw material in fish processing…
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