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- A new case of ISA has been detected at a Cooke Aquaculture site in Newfoundland, Canada. According to Nell Halse, the vice-president of communications at Cooke Aquaculture, the site is a medium-sized farm with four cages that contain about 300,000 fish. The salmon are about halfway through their growth cycle and would have been harvested and marketed out in August of 2013. The company is working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to deal with the outbreak. Read more...
- The Nova Scotia government has given the go-ahead for two controversial salmon farms in Jordan Bay near Shelburne. Operated by Kelly Cove Salmon, a subsidiary of Cooke Aquaculture, the sites will be home to up to 700,000 fish. The farms faced opposition over concerns that large-scale aquaculture could threaten wild species. Read more...
- Scotland's fishing industry is set to get £5.8 million in European grants. 121 projects from across the country have benefited from the latest round of European Fisheries Fund (EFF) pay outs. The main benefactors are Shetland Aquaculture and Lossie Seafoods in Buckie which both received over £300,000 each. Read more...
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| English: Atlantic salmon. Salmo salar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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