Atlantic Salmon

The global recession has hit emerging farmers in developing countries most harshly, according to Prof Greg Lutz, Fish Site columnist and extension specialist at Louisiana State University.

After an eventful recent past – which included two years stuck in Myanmar due to Covid-19 restrictions and then spending time as a refugee in Vietnam, where his former student, Loc Tran, managed to secure him a temporary visa after the coup in Myanmar – Prof K…

The recent COP27 meeting reinforced that the salmon sector must be more responsible if it is to become a flagship for sustainable blue food production. Following our panel session in the first food-focused pavilion at COP, it was clear to see that there is som…

The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this sometimes presents trade-offs in fish welfare.

The 50th anniversary of Cloan Hatcheries is an astonishing milestone in the trout farming sector that Dick Haldane is rightly proud of. However – unlike one of his other achievements – it hasn’t yet earned him a telegram from one of the world’s most feared dic…

A radical rethink is needed in the fishing industry to ensure that more fish trimmings can be utilised by the aquafeed sector*.

Aine O'Donnell and Aine-Lisa Shannon are bringing aquaculture to Ireland's primary schools as part of the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) Aquaculture Remote Classroom (ARC), a mobile classroom that showcases aquaculture's role in coastal communities and climate-posi…

The Norwegian government’s plans to dramatically increase tax on salmon production is likely to have a raft of unintended negative consequences along the salmon supply chain, without having a long term benefit to the country’s coffers, according to Gorjan Niko…