
Innovation & Investment
Is deep-water aquaculture the way for salmon farmers to beat sea lice?
AKVA Group says recent trials reveal low sea lice numbers and reduced treatments when using its deep-water aquaculture technology.
Health & Welfare
A scientific report has concluded that sea lice on farmed salmon do not impact sea lice levels on wild juvenile salmon in British Columbia.
Innovation & Investment
AKVA Group says recent trials reveal low sea lice numbers and reduced treatments when using its deep-water aquaculture technology.
Innovation & Investment
Sea lice plague salmon farms globally, but scientists and aquaculture are turning to technology to prevent and manage the pests.
Health & Welfare
Novel study uses fully automated L. salmonis eDNA quantification for autonomous water sample analysis of gene targets to monitor parasitic loads.
Health & Welfare
Scotland will host the biennial International Sea Lice Conference in 2024, after a successful bid led by SAIC.
Health & Welfare
A Nofima-led study is exploring the possibilities of using gene editing to make salmon more resistant to sea lice.
Health & Welfare
The Danish Technological Institute and Benchmark Genetics are exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to count sea lice on salmon.
Innovation & Investment
Hatch Blue’s fourth cohort performed their pitches online for the first time, showcasing a spectrum of aquaculture product and service businesses.
Innovation & Investment
Salmon farmers in Norway are trialing two new technologies, including one from Silicon Valley, in their ongoing battle with the persistent sea lice.
Health & Welfare
An operational salmon lice model calculates sea lice infestation pressure all along the Norwegian coast in near real-time, based on a hydrodynamical ocean model and a salmon lice particle tracking model.
Innovation & Investment
Innovations to combat sea lice are in the pipeline as ambitious new companies employ a combination of innovative technological and scientific methods.
Responsibility
Despite the positive outputs of the global salmon farming business it remains a target for sharp criticism. In Scotland, the industry’s battle against misleading and inaccurate information reaches a new level.
Innovation & Investment
The consensus among several presenters at the aquaculture portion of the Alltech ONE18 conference was clear: Much more seafood is needed to feed humans, whose numbers will reach 8 billion in less than six years.
Health & Welfare
Alltech and Benchmark have been working on the next generation of sea lice solutions and believe they have new products that can help salmon farmers win.
Health & Welfare
The Scottish salmon industry is facing criticism following the release of sea lice statistics and acknowledgement that up to 10 million salmon – a quarter of all stocks – were thrown away last year as a result of disease, parasites and other issues.
Innovation & Investment
At the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum in New York, “all roads lead to salmon.” Buoyed by high prices and soaring demand, the sector is an example worth following. But it’s not without its challenges.