Norway

A flotilla of white and orange robots is destined to arrive with one of Norway’s most progressive aquaculture operators this year, in a colourful – yet apparently practical – attempt to improve the performance of their salmon farming sites.

Eirik Sigstadstø, R&D director at the Norwegian Research Fund (FHF), has high hopes for next week’s sea louse control conference in Trondheim, in which the use of lumpfish and wrasse are set to be high on the agenda.

Åsa Espmark, who has recently taken over a head of CtrlAQUA – a project that aims to create off-the-shelf solutions to growing salmon post-smolts in closed-containment systems – explains her ambitions to The Fish Site.

A project assessing the use of microalgae byproducts from the biofuel industry as a protein replacement in feeds for farmed salmon is gaining momentum, according to Yangyang Gong, a researcher at Nord University.

New research into the diets of wolf fish suggests that they have huge potential to help diversify Norway’s aquaculture industry. Helene Rønquist Knutsen, a PhD student from Nord University, explains to The Fish Site how the culture of the species is gathering …