Marine Harvest said its production in Chile would hit a record low in 2010 even though the epidemic of the Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus that broke out in the country in 2007 seems under control. » Read more

Norway: Aqua Gen AS is one of six companies which have been nominated for the Research Council of Norway’s innovation Prize. » Read more

Ireland: Due to significant fall in demand for salmon feed year on year in the Irish market, Skretting has decided to close its production and administration at Westport, Ireland. » Read more

Canada: Northern Harvest Sea Farms in Newfoundland gets a multi-million dollar injection towards the building of a new hatchery for its expanding salmon farming operations on the province’s south coast » Read more

Chile: Invertec Pesquera del Mar de Chiloé resigned to its membership to the Association of the Chilean Salmon Industry (SalmonChile) two weeks after AquaChile took the same decision. César Barros (in the photo) assured that no other company has resigned yet. » Read more

UK: The Environment Agency has expressed concern after several seals which suffered violent deaths were found along the County Down coast. » Read more

Canada: The federal government of Canada has until December 18th to set new rules for aquaculture in British Columbia. The period available for public comments comes to an end this week » Read more

UK: Britain's leading seafood brand, Young's, has launched a new range of premium fish dishes intended to start the biggest seafood category shake-up of the year. » Read more

Chile: The harvest of Chilean salmonids totalized 116,200 tonnes in the first half-year representing a 57.9% downfall compared to the same period of 2009 according to figures submitted by the Chilean Fisheries Under-Secretariat (Subpesca). » Read more