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The Guoxin No.1 is reported to be set for an upgrade. China’s Guoxin No. 1 fish farm ship is set for a £1.9 million upgrade to bring it on a level with its sister ships, reports blogger Daniel Huang on LinkedIn. Delivered in May 2022, the Guoxin No.1 is the earliest of three Chinese vessels that contain fish tanks and can move along the coast to find the best water and weather conditions.

File photo of a fish being vaccinated by hand. Researchers are working 'backwards' to find a new defence against BKD in farmed salmon. It's quicker, cheaper, and more rational than the traditional approach.

Visitors to the ARC in Oban this week. The mobile aquaculture classroom spent three days in Scotland at the request of Salmon Scotland A mobile classroom belonging to Ireland’s seafood development agency Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) has made a guest appearance in Oban, courtesy of trade body Salmon Scotland.

Dr Brad Skelton will act as a independent scientific advisor to the Shell-volution project. Mussel farming project Shell-volution has appointed internationally recognised mussel aquaculture researcher Dr Brad Skelton, research fellow at the University of Auckland, as independent scientific advisor for a one-year pilot, bringing internationally recognised expertise from one of the world’s leading mussel farming nations.

Salmon being processed at Filetfabrikken AS in Nittedal. The spot price of market-influencing Norwegian farmed salmon increased by NOK 1.44 (£0.11) per kilo, up to NOK 64.30 (£5.12) per kilo, in week 28, according to sector statistic provider Akvafakta. That price is NOK 1.5 above the same week last year. If we compare it to the same week two years ago, the price is down by NOK 9.62, writes Fish Farming Expert's Norwegian sister site, Kyst.no.

Agraya's new chief operating officer Daniel Link, left, and chief finance officer Tilman Felshart. Certification heavyweight adds new COO and CFO as it looks towards expansion Agraya GmbH, the corporate home of agirculture and aquaculture certification body GLOBALG.A.P. and the GGN label, is expanding its leadership team with the appointment of a chief operating officer and a chief financial officer.

A major aquaculture conference that is expected to attract more than 2,000 delegates from over 100 countries has been officially launched in Tanzania. Conference organiser the World Aquaculture Society selected Tanzania’s Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries as host in recognition of the country’s rapid growth in aquaculture and its commitment to advancing the Blue Economy.

Korea's Team Tongyeong yacht, currently lying fifth in the Clipper Race, pictured from the Leigha-Anne (inset). Scottish Sea Farms provides sponsorship and manned personnel craft for Oban stopover It may not be as elegant as an ocean-going sailing vessel, but a fish farm personnel craft is nonetheless playing a starring role in the return of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race to Oban on Scotland’s west coast.

A scholarship in memory of Nikos Steiropoulos provides free tuition for a graduate studying for a Masters at the Institute of Aquaculture. Students eligible for a place on one of three aquaculture-related masters degree courses at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture have just over two weeks left to apply for a scholarship that will cover the cost of their tuition fees.

File photo of work taking place at Mowi Scotland's Blar Mhor primary processing plant at Fort William. Mowi Scotland harvested 26,500 gutted weigh tonnes in the second quarter of this year, and the company harvested a record 150,000 gwt globally. Global salmon farmer Mowi harvested 150,000 gutted weight tonnes in the second quarter of this year, 17,000 gwt more than in the same period last year and 10,000 gwt more than guided in its Q1 2026 report.