Creative Salmon has new face at the helm

Canada - May 29, 2008 - The head of a local aquaculture company will soon be trying his hand at fish farming at the opposite end of the globe.

Mystery investor courts Alfesca

A NON-ICELANDIC investor is poised to buy into Alfesca, the specialist seafood group which owns Farne Salmon and Trout in Scotland and Lyons Seafood in England.

Creative Salmon manager off to Australia

Canada/Australia - May 27, 2008 - Spencer Evans, general manager of Creative Salmon, recently signed a three-year contract as a regional manager with the Australian aquaculture company Tassal Pure Tasmania.

North America: One millionth Atlantic salmon stocked

THE Lake Ontario Atlantic Salmon Restoration Programme has reached a major milestone with the stocking of the one millionth Atlantic salmon.

Officials allow for salmon transfers in Chaiten volcano area

Chile - May 27, 2008 - The Chilean government is reducing the security area around the Chaiten volcano from 50 to 24 kilometers in order to facilitate the rescue of approximately 600,000 salmon located throughout various farming centres in the area.

Connecting all the pieces

Unified communications products blend several technologies into one, allowing easy interaction between a variety of systems It's amusing to imagine that the 16 million or so salmon bred annually by Cooke ...

Fuel fight hits Norwegian salmon exports

MASSIVE protests in France against high fuel prices blocked deliveries of Norwegian salmon this week.

Spinning Farmed Salmon

Almost all the scientists quoted in criticism of the study were linked to the industry in one way or another.

Taras Grescoe's book warns agains collapse of wild fish stock

Taras Grescoe remembers his first taste of salmon. "I was at a dude ranch. I was eight years old and given my first pieces of smoked salmon.

Fresh catch for Grieg Seafood

SHETLAND'S largest salmon farming and processing company, Grieg Seafood Hjaltland, has acquired another fish farm operation on the east of the island - " Collafirth Salmon.

Bullet-resistant body armour technology used to make nets for farmed salmon

A fibre used to make bullet-resistant body armour and reinforce the cockpit doors of aircraft is being tested by the salmon-farming industry in an attampt to prevent fish breakouts and keep out marauding seals.

Value added will play important role in future, says Marine Harvest report

A NUMBER of challenges must be overcome, but the long-term future for aquaculture, and salmon farming in particular, is positive, a report published today by Marine Harvest states.

Grieg Seafood Hjaltland acquires new salmon farm licences

THE largest salmon farming and processing company in Shetland, Grieg Seafood Hjaltland, has announced that it has acquired Collarfirth Salmon Limited – a company consisting of three farm licences with a usable combined discharge consent of 2,100 tons – through its 100 per cent subsidiary Hjaltland Seafarms.

International market expansion for Landcatch

A DELIVERY of eggs to South Africa and a first time supply of smolts to Denmark are the most recent additions to a growing list of countries into which Landcatch Ltd., the Scotland and Chile-based salmon breeding company, is selling its pedigree strains of Atlantic salmon.

Seafood bank says salmon prices continuing to fall

THE price of salmon is continuing to fall on northern European markets, according to the latest figures from the seafood orientated bank Glitnir.

'Times' Mistakes Security Guard For Someone They Care to Talk To [Corrections]

Well. The Times sent some poor stringer to ask about salmon diseases at some port in Chile.

Freedom Food holds transport seminar for Scottish salmon farmers

MORE than 50 delegates from a wide cross-section of the Scottish salmon farming industry attended a Freedom Food seminar entitled ‘Completing the Chain’, on Tuesday at the Aviemore Resort.

Don't overlook farmed salmon

Despite its many health benefits, Canadians are still reticent when it comes to eating fish.

Salmon of the Americas: New York Times Story on Chilean Salmon Industry Erroneous, Unreliable

Paper issues Editor's Note on Flawed Reporting MIAMI, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - - In an Editor's Note in Tuesday's New York Times, the newspaper admitted that it had incorrectly identified Adolfo Flores, ...

Alexei Barrionuevo is 3-for-3 in Times Screw Ups

An article on March 27 reported on a virus, infectious salmon anemia, or I.S.A., killing millions of salmon cultivated for export by Chile's salmon farming industry.

Farmed Salmon: Sea Lice and Virus

In April 2008, the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform welcomed a decision by the British Columbian government to institute an indefinite moratorium on open net-cage salmon farming in northern British ...