Mainstream Norway has detected SAV virus in fish at the farming site Tuvan in Langefjorden, Finnmark, and is consequently suspecting PD at this site.
The Norwegian Food Authority and the other farming companies in the region have been informed about the situation and the site is quarantined. Mainstream is now in close cooperation with the Food Authorities developing a plan for harvesting of the site.
The Tuvan site contains approximately 580,000 fish. The fish has an average weight of 2 kg, and harvest was originally planned for third quarter 2013.
Nofima has published a free handbook on capture-based aquaculture for cod. The book, written in Norwegian, is based on decades of research and outlines the equipment
and procedures required to succeed with this new form of capture.
Capture-based aquaculture involves catching wild animals and then keeping them alive or feeding them until they are harvested.
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Aquafeed readers may have seen our Expert Topic on Arctic char in the
new issue. (If you haven't, what are you waiting for? Take a look here).
On first inspection, this species seemed like a bit of a left field
choice to cover as our first Expert Topic of 2013 but it is attracting
growing interest in the aquaculture industry.
Today
I learnt that the University of Aberdeen is offering a PhD Research
Project on 'Investigating the basis of rapid phenotypic evolution in
European Arctic charr using population genomics'. The
studentship will investigate the genetic, ecological and physiological
basis of rapid phenotypic evolution in Scottish and Icelandic Arctic
char.
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| Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus fjeldørred NONE (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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