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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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".