EU Fisheries minister Maria Damanaki has said that it was vital to identify and the main hurdles and bottlenecks that prevented Europe's aquaculture industry from flourishing.

The Marine Harvest Group achieved an operational EBIT of NOK 276 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to NOK 963 million in the corresponding quarter of 2011.

With more than 2 million tons of certified seafood from aquaculture farms, theGLOBALG.A.P. program offers more products from certified farms than all other aquaculture labels combined.

THE AKVA Group and the Russian Sea Group have signed a deal for a complete AKVA Cage Farm to be installed this year in the operations of Russian Sea Aquaculture in the Murmansk region.

MARINE Harvest has announced a number of its results for the first quarter of 2012, which showed that – in terms of volume – its Chilean operations have overtaken those in Scotland.

A Scots Euro MP is to be work-shadowed at the European Parliament in Brussels by two interns from the Sustainable Ethical Aquaculture Trade (SEAT) Project,  funded under the EU-FP7 research programme.

Fish farmers must gather a great deal of information about their operation and the components on the farms in order to meet the many necessary technical requirements and safeguard equipment.

Marine Harvest ASA has entered into agreements with the largest European institute for applied research within fisheries, aquaculture and food, Nofima, and the leading Norwegian agricultural feed producer, Felleskjøpet Rogaland Agder, which opens up for establishing a leading Norwegian salmon feed company with a yearly production capacity of up to 500.000 tonnes of salmon feed.

NIFES is one of several institutions involved in a cooperation project  which will assist Cubans establishing a marine aquaculture industry.

Scottish Tory MEP, Struan Stevenson has condemned the red tape that is proving a barrier to growth within Europe’s fish farming industry, calling for the bureaucracy to be simplified.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) and the Meridian Salmon Group have signed a pioneering three year agreement with Otter Ferry Seafish Ltd which will see Ballan wrasse* commercially farmed for use in salmon cages for the first time.

Aquaculture UK 2012 organiser David Mack reports excellent uptake of stand space at this year’s exhibition, to be held at the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort on 23rd and 24th May 2012.