Salmon farming in Norway — Norwegian salmon farms have battled frequent escapes in recent years | Photo courtesy of Andrei Armiagov/Shutterstock

January 14, 2025

Lerøy reports escape of 15,000 salmon in Norway

California Governor Gavin Newsom — In May 2024, California announced USD 17 million (EUR 16 million) in awards for habitat restoration, with USD 8.5 million (EUR 8.3 million) set aside for advancing salmon recovery efforts | Photo courtesy of Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock

January 14, 2025

California Governor Gavin Newsom includes salmon, hatchery spending in 2025-26 state budget

The interior of a fish-processing facility in Russia — Russian processing companies have been targeted with penalties over failure to adhere to terms of the country's investment quotas program, but courts have reduced or even rejected the fines | Photo courtesy of the United Press Service of Rosrybolovstvo

January 14, 2025

Russian court sides with companies in disputes over investment quotas

Smoked salmon undergoing processing — Listeria contamination can occur late in the processing process after fish is smoked or cooked | Photo courtesy of TemporalStreet/Shutterstock

January 14, 2025

EU sets new rules regarding listeria contamination, frustrating smoked salmon industry

Loch Arkaig, Scotland — Loch Arkaig, in the Scottish Highlands, was home to one of Mowi's oldest freshwater salmon farms | Photo courtesy of Another Viewpoint/Shutterstock

January 14, 2025

Mowi Scotland will close its Loch Arkaig farm after 35 years

Aquaculture

Sea lice on a trout — Sea lice parasite on a trout | Photo courtesy of Jonas Aleksander Larsen/Shutterstock

Scottish, Faroese, Norwegian joint project aims to standardize sea lice modeling

October 10, 2024

A Cooke Aquaculture aquaculture facility in the U.S. state of Washington — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit authorizing aquaculture in federal waters has been declared unlawful in a blow to the industry in the U.S. | Photo courtesy of the Washington Department of Ecology

US federal court strikes down Army Corps of Engineers' aquaculture permits

October 9, 2024

A rendering of an aerial photo of what Pan Ocean's offshore aquaculture technology would look like — Pan Ocean Aquaculture is working to build a seriola farm using offshore aquaculture technology it developed | Image courtesy of Pan Ocean Aquaculture

Dutch aquatech firm Pan Ocean Aquaculture plans offshore project in Malta

October 8, 2024

Appalachian Salmon CEO Austin Caperton stands in a field in the mountains of West Virginia — Appalachian Salmon has secured the permits it needs to start construction at the site of the former Maple Meadow Mine in Fairdale, West Virginia | Photo courtesy of Appalachian Salmon

Appalachian Salmon secures key permits to build trout RAS in West Virginia

October 8, 2024

A hand holds sugar kelp, which is golden brown. — Sugar kelp cultivated by Lerøy Ocean Forest | Photo courtesy of Lerøy

Lerøy expands seaweed-farming operations; Faroese seaweed farmer Ocean Rainforest secures USD 2.78 million in funding

October 7, 2024

A photo of Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead fish from a net pen — Footage from Animal Equality UK, showing Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead salmon from a net pen | Photo courtesy of Animal Equality UK

Scottish salmon industry responds to “extreme activist” claims of poor welfare

October 4, 2024

Workers with Proximar seafood pulling in salmon harvested from the company's RAS facility. — Proximar Seafood had a successful first harvest from its RAS facility in Japan, the first Atlantic salmon domestically produced in the country | Photo courtesy of Proximar Seafood

Proximar harvests first salmon from its Japan-based recirculating aquaculture system

October 4, 2024

Nordlaks Smolt Operations Director Øivind Skjevling and Executive Director Eirik Welde stand in grass by the ocean shore. — Nordlaks has purchased land for a planned smolt facility that it said will represent an investment of billions of krone | Photo courtesy of Nordlaks

Nordlaks purchases land for planned smolt facility in Rødskjær, Norway

October 3, 2024

An aerial shot of the port of Grimsby in eastern England — The port of Grimsby in eastern England | Photo courtesy of AquaCultured Seafood

AquaCultured Seafood's RAS farm plans stalled pending UK high court ruling

October 3, 2024

A photo of Underwater Contracting's Foover machine, which removes salmon mortalities — As part of its growth plans, Mowi intends to invest in new technology, such as through an expanded partnership with Underwater Contracting to up its use of the firm's remotely operated vehicle tech | Photo courtesy of Underwater Contracting

Mowi aiming for 600,000 MT of annual salmon production by 2029

October 1, 2024

A photo of waves lashing the Hainan coastline as Typhoon Yagi made landfall on 6 September — Waves lashing the Hainan coastline as Typhoon Yagi made landfall on 6 September | Photo courtesy of Zhongxinyashi_Photo/Shutterstock

Typhoon Yagi devastates tilapia production in Hainan, China

September 30, 2024

A photo of Protix CCO Piotr Postepski presenting at the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum — Protix CCO Piotr Postepski presenting at the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum | Photo courtesy of the Global Shrimp Forum/LinkedIn

Shrimp supply chains warming to insect protein use

September 30, 2024

Ecuador's Coca Codo Sinclair Hydropower Plant — Ecuador's Coca Codo Sinclair Hydropower Plant, which is the nation's top plant by generation capacity | Photo courtesy of Hydro Review

“It’s chaos” – Power outages may cost Ecuador’s shrimp sector USD 5 million a day

September 26, 2024

An aerial view of a salmon farm floating in the waters of British Columbia near small islands. — The Canadian government has released its draft salmon aquaculture transition plan for British Columbia, Canada | Photo courtesy of the BC Salmon Farmers Association

Canada releases draft transition plan phasing out salmon net-pens in British Columbia

September 23, 2024

Siri Tømmerås is the commercial director of land-based operations at AKVA group. — Siri Tømmerås is the commercial director of land-based operations at AKVA group | Photo by Cliff White/SeafoodSource

AKVA’s Siri Tømmerås: Money, infrastructure, personnel are holy trinity of land-based aquaculture

September 20, 2024

Diosmar's Teresa Larreta and Total Seafood's Michael Alarcón Arcentales at the 2024 Seafood Expo Asia — Diosmar's Teresa Larreta and Total Seafood's Michael Alarcón Arcentales at the 2024 Seafood Expo Asia in Singapore | Photos by Cliff White/SeafoodSource

From lowest lows, prices for Ecuadorian shrimp rise, but production flattening in 2024

September 19, 2024

Five tilapia farmers hold a net as they stand in a row in light brown water. — Tilapia farmers holding a net | Photo courtesy of FAI

Tilapia genetics company Spring Genetics teams up with UK data firm to improve fish welfare

September 19, 2024

A view of aquaculture tanks in Proximar Seafood's recirculating aquaculture system facility — Proximar Seafood has secured JPY 1 billion (USD 7 million, EUR 6.3 million) in additional funds as it nears its first salmon harvest | Photo courtesy of Proximar Seafood

Proximar Seafood secures USD 7 million loan as it approaches first salmon harvest at Japan RAS

September 19, 2024