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  • Leroy: Salmon price rise expected
    Published:  09 May, 2008

    LOW salmon prices have hit Norwegian company Leroy Seafood's Q1 results.

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  • Geir Isaksen

    Cermaq announces NOK 36.9 million Q1 loss
    Published:  09 May, 2008

    NORWEGIAN aquaculture company Cermaq has today reported a first quarter loss of NOK 36.9 million. The company said lower salmon prices, higher costs in farming in Chile, and higher raw material costs in EWOS, reduced the result.

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  • Scientists and fish farmers meet to tackle fish health issue
    Published:  08 May, 2008

    AN important seminar aimed at addressing the problem of pancreas disease on salmon farms was held yesterday at the Marine Institute in Oranmore, Co. Galway.

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  • Group challenges BC Government's right to regulate fish farms
    Published:  07 May, 2008

    A BIOLOGIST, tourism operators and commercial fishermen have teamed up to file a constitutional challenge in what they say is an effort to "save" British Columbia's wild salmon fishery.

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  • Tesco accused of "whitewash" over fish farm escape enquiry
    Published:  07 May, 2008

    SCOTLAND'S wild fish interests have today reacted with anger at the decision by Tesco to conduct an investigation into a "major" fish farm escape behind closed doors.

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  • New pest strategy launched for Irish farms
    Published:  06 May, 2008

    IRELAND'S Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan and Minister of State John Browne today launched a new strategy for improved pest control on Irish salmon farms.

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  • Hot topics on agenda at Aviemore event
    Published:  06 May, 2008

    KEY issues facing the fish farming industry are due to be discussed at the Aquaculture UK 2008 conference in Aviemore this month.

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  • Scots salmon sector trials new nets
    Published:  06 May, 2008

    A NEW net material for Scotland’s salmon farmers is being pioneered in Sutherland and the Western Isles and could play a major role in reducing escapes in the aquaculture industry.

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  • Marine Harvest Canada partners with local groups to improve wild fish survival
    Published:  06 May, 2008

    MARINE Harvest Canada has teamed up with a number of British Columbia organisations in a bid to improve wild coho salmon and trout survival.

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  • EWOS acquires Chilean feed plant
    Published:  05 May, 2008

    EWOS Chile Alimentos Ltda, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cermaq ASA, has signed an agreement to acquire a feed plant from Cultivos Marinos Chiloé Ltda (CMC).

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  • The study was carried out at the Royal Veterinary College in London

    Study proves salmon grow bigger with colder temperatures
    Published:  02 May, 2008

    A STUDY carried out by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has shown Atlantic salmon incubated at lower temperatures are longer, heavier and more muscular than those incubated at higher temperatures.

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  • Phil Thomas

    Scots salmon trade body appoints new chairman
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    THE Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation has announced today that Phil Thomas will replace Michael Gibson as chairman.

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  • Hot topics on agenda at Irish shellfish event
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    ISSUES affecting the Irish shellfish industry will be up for debate at a conference in Co. Mayo next month.

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  • Photo: BCSFA

    New study spotlights "complex factors" impacting BC wild salmon
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    A NEW study published by the British Columbia Pacific Salmon Forum throws light on environmental and other conditions and events in the Broughton Archipelago over nearly 60 years.

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  • Barramundi farm brings in administrators
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    AQUACULTURE company Aquabella Group Plc. said yesterday it has taken the necessary steps to appoint administrators after carefully considering its financial position.

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  • Peter Hajipieris

    "Farmed seafood is great", says Tesco seafood specialist
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    FARMED seafood from Europe will play a key role in Tesco's sustainability policy, a Belgian conference has heard.

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  • Top prize for innovative aquaculture concept
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    A SUSTAINABLE aquaculture concept has won first place in a University of Miami competition.

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  • Scottish Sea Farms invests £3million in new processing facilities
    Published:  30 April, 2008

    SCOTTISH Sea Farms is to install new filleting lines at its premises in Argyll and Shetland, with support from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).

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  • Farmers shouldn't have too many sea urchins in each tank

    Norway focuses on sea urchin farming
    Published:  29 April, 2008

    NORWAY is investing in research into farmed sea urchins - with several Norwegians already farming the species - in order to protect diminishing wild stocks and meet market demand.

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  • Norway: Salmon to get training tips from football
    Published:  29 April, 2008

    IN order to make salmon more robust for transfer to sea water, an interdisciplinary research group in Norway has decided to strengthen salmon's heart capacity and health through intensive training.

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  • Struan Stevenson

    Scots MEP warns of dangers to fish farming from EU red tape
    Published:  28 April, 2008

    SCOTTISH Euro MP, Struan Stevenson today condemned the "red tape" that is proving a barrier to growth within Europe’s fish farming industry and called for the regulations that govern it to be simplified. Otherwise, he says, the sector is in danger of being dominated by competition from non-EU countries, putting jobs at risk.

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  • Helga Pedersen

    Norway: Number of escaped farmed fish cut in half
    Published:  28 April, 2008

    THE number of farmed fish escaping from Norwegian fish farms has more than halved in one year.

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  • Salmon from the Trondheim Fjord attacked by sea lice Photo: Nofima

    Breeding can reduce sea lice problems, say scientists
    Published:  25 April, 2008

    SOME salmon are more easily infested with sea lice than others. Utilising this in the breeding of farmed salmon can save millions and reduce the infestation pressure of sea lice among wild salmonids, according to Norwegian researchers.

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  • Government outlines plans to expand Scottish aquaculture
    Published:  24 April, 2008

    AN international audience at the largest seafood event in the world has heard that the Scottish Government wants to “unlock the potential” for its aquaculture industry to grow.

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  • Shetland/Norwegian partnership buys Grading Systems
    Published:  24 April, 2008

    A SHETLAND/Norwegian partnership is taking over the latest assets to be sold from the ill-fated cod farming business No Catch, which folded in February with debts worth £40 million.

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  • Åse Aulie Michelet

    Marine Harvest teams up with WWF-Norway
    Published:  23 April, 2008

    WWF-Norway and major aquaculture company Marine Harvest today announced their new partnership working to reduce the environmental impacts and ecological footprint of aquaculture.

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  • The series is presented by actor Edward Norton

    TV programme to feature Canadian aquaculture project
    Published:  23 April, 2008

    AN innovative Canadian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) project is due to feature as part of a National Geographic television series.

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  • Shrimp aquaculture standard launched at ESE
    Published:  23 April, 2008

    A NEW shrimp farming standard will be launched at ESE in Brussels today.

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  • No Catch collapse expected to have minimal job impacts
    Published:  21 April, 2008

    THE collapse of Shetland organic cod farmer No Catch is expected to have only minimal job implications in the isles as most will be soaked up by fish farming competitors.

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  • Jose Villalon

    Shrimp farming standards development under way
    Published:  17 April, 2008

    CRITERIA and indicators that will be used to create standards for responsible shrimp farming are under development for the shrimp industries in East Africa and Central America/Mexico.

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  • Nick Joy

    Fish farm company expands to Western Isles
    Published:  17 April, 2008

    AN award-winning independent Scottish salmon farming company is branching out from its base in north-west Sutherland and taking over two redundant salmon farming sites at Loch Carnan in South Uist.

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  • Jim Anderton

    NZ: ARC asked to rethink ban on clean aquaculture
    Published:  17 April, 2008

    NEW Zealand Fisheries Minister, Jim Anderton has urged the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) to "think again" over its proposed ban on aquaculture across the entire Auckland region.

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  • Former employees land No Catch sea trout business
    Published:  17 April, 2008

    TWO FORMER employees of failed Shetland cod farmers No Catch have bought the group's organic sea trout business.

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  • John Browne

    Irish minister urges Commission to retain salmon trade measures
    Published:  16 April, 2008

    IRISH fisheries minister, John Browne this week has urged the EU to continue with its existing trade measures on imports of farmed salmon from Norway.

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  • Odd Geir Oddsen

    Scots salmon jobs go in Lighthouse Caledonia restructure
    Published:  16 April, 2008

    SCOTTISH salmon farmer Lighthouse Caledonia has today confirmed it is to shed up to a fifth of its employees in a move designed to see annual operational performance improve by over £1million from next year.

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  • Skretting begins sea lice trials in Chile and Norway
    Published:  16 April, 2008

    MAJOR feed company Skretting announced today it has entered into a contract with Norwegian company Calanus for the development and documentation of a product based on the marine zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus to counteract sea-lice infestations in salmon and trout.

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  • Demand for B.C. farmed salmon outstrips supply, industry says
    Published:  16 April, 2008

    DEMAND from U.S. buyers for farmed British Columbia salmon is outstripping supply and the situation is expected to continue, according to a trade organisation.

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  • Samuel James Penglase enriches rotifers at NIFES. Image courtesy of NIFES

    New feeding methods give cod larvae higher survival rates
    Published:  16 April, 2008

    RESEARCH at the Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) shows that cod larvae fed rotifers enriched with iodine and selenium have a higher survival rate than control larvae.

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  • Sid Patten

    Scottish salmon chief moves on
    Published:  15 April, 2008

    THE chief official of Scotland's top salmon trade association is leaving his post, it was confirmed today.

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  • Marine Harvest closes Chile processing plant
    Published:  15 April, 2008

    MARINE Harvest Chile has closed one of its three processing plants (Chinquihue) in Puerto Montt.

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  • International interest in farmed cod
    Published:  15 April, 2008

    A GERMAN television crew is visiting the National Cod Breeding Centre in Tromsø, Norway, to document cod as part of a television series exploring "animals that have changed history".

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