AquaBounty Technologies has announced that it’s nearing the final stages of its search for a new land-based aquaculture facility in the United States.» Read more
The planned dredging on the Pripyat River in the Chernobyl exclusion zone could contaminate the entire Dnieper River with radioactive cesium and strontium accumulated in the sludge during the first years after the Chernobyl disaster, a group of Ukraine environmental protection organizations warned.» Read more
New research from Norway has found that the skin of Atlantic salmon post-smolt that has become acclimatised to salt water is stronger than those that have been raised in freshwater before being transferred to the sea. Salt water acclimatisation makes the salmon more resistant to the skin ulcer bacterium called Tenacibaculum, according to an article published on Nofima’s website.» Read more