Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia. Saturday 8 May 2021. In a self-organized way, a group of Argentines and Chileans gathered on their kayaks in the middle of the Beagle Channel to…
Posts Tagged ‘Aquaculture’
Fish farm companies bid to use bee-harming pesticide
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020Scotland’s salmon farming industry is planning to use a toxic pesticide banned in terrestrial agriculture because of dangers to bees, campaigners are warning. They have condemned the secrecy surrounding the…
Scotland’s first open ocean fish farm set to be trialled
Monday, March 9th, 2020Scottish Sea Farms is set to trial what it describes as Scotland’s first open ocean fish farm. The salmon company said it plans to explore the biological and technological implications…
Import of Norwegian salmon eggs banned over deadly virus
Thursday, February 27th, 2020Imports of salmon eggs from Norway have been banned over fears a deadly viral disease could spread to Scotland, it has been revealed. New documents disclose that exports of Norwegian…
Number of annual Sepa inspections down by a quarter
Monday, February 24th, 2020The number of annual inspections of sites regulated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) fell by a quarter over the last five years, prompting concerns about pollution. Data obtained…
Mowi sees profits hit by sea lice, disease and escapes
Thursday, February 20th, 2020The biggest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, Mowi, has reported a hit to earnings from lice, disease and escapes from its Scottish sea pens. Norway-based Mowi, formerly Marine Harvest, published…
A matter of life and algae: exploring the potential of seaweed
Thursday, February 13th, 2020Seaweed has long been a staple of Scotland, used not just for food but also as fertiliser, and now algae could hold the key for scientific innovation, carbon capture and…
Mass escape from Colonsay fish farm after Storm Brendan
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020Mowi Scotland has reported the escape of 73,600 salmon with an average weight of 1.9 kilograms following damage to a pen at the company’s Colonsay farm during storm Brendan last…
A cry for kelp: why Scotland’s green future could be blue
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020“If you take one square metre of seaweed, of kelp forest, it will capture five times more carbon than any land forest,” says visionary marine geologist Pierre Erwes. The kelp…
Sunburns can plague farmed fish, new research suggests
Thursday, December 5th, 2019Trapped near the ocean’s surface in cages or nets, farmed fish can suffer a host of problems from sunburns by not being able to escape the light. You’re swimming at…