Health & Welfare
Few could argue that a reduction in sea lice-fighting chemicals isn't a win for the fish and for the environment. The downside, however, is that increasing numbers of cleaner fish are being caught for use on salmon farms.
Health & Welfare
An over-reliance on medical and chemical controls, along with warming waters, led to a surge in sea lice. With such treatments waning in effectiveness, operators turn to other, safer measures.
Health & Welfare
After refilling ponds, surviving microorganisms – including Vibrio parahaemolyticus, which causes EMS in shrimp – may benefit from the availability of nutrients in sediment and water and lack of competing microorganisms.
Innovation & Investment
A virus that causes pancreas disease was patented, but when a vaccine produced by a patent licensee was found insufficient, another company developed a vaccine based on a different strain of the virus. The courts in Norway determined the work on the second vaccine was a patent law infringement.
Intelligence
In a study of Norwegian consumers asked to evaluate pangasius fillets, the extrinsic cues corporate social responsibility, endorsement and country of origin had different effects on evaluative variables.
Health & Welfare
The Fjordsmolt RAS farm applies a relatively simple, low-cost design to produce millions of salmon smolts per year in fiberglass tanks.
Intelligence
Spotted wolffish exhibit attractive culture characteristics, including high value, high growth rates at high stocking densities, excellent fillet yield, nonaggressive behavior and few disease problems.
Intelligence
Norway’s groundfish-farming industry can deliver premium-quality products, but can it achieve economic sustainability, as well? Salmon feeding, quality and disease technology can not be fully transferred to cod.
Health & Welfare
A new scalable modular concept for lobster culture developed in Norway relies on automation to perform most production procedures.
Intelligence
While stable production of juveniles remains an issue for halibut farming in Norway, advances such as diets to replace live artemia are improving the industry.