While the UK is the fourth largest aquaculture producer in Europe by volume, it is the second largest by value with an annual first sale value of around £1 billion. Over 90% of this value is from Atlantic salmon farmed in Scotland, but other finfish and shellfish aquaculture species are important...

This issue contains topics on improved practices in life cycle assessment (LCA) of seafood and other aquatic products; implications of high animal by-product feed inputs in life cycle assessments of farmed Atlantic salmon; life cycle assessment of aquafeed ingredients; mapping the impacts of farmed ...

Salmon farming is an important economic activity, and employer, particularly for remoter areas of Scotland; crustacean fisheries are also significant small businesses in these areas. Salmon frames (the head and spine that remain after evisceration and filleting) are sometimes used to bait the creel ...

The Farm Aquaculture Resource Management (FARM) model has been applied to several shellfish species and aquaculture types. The performance of the FARM model, developed to simulate potential harvest, key financial data, and water quality impacts at the farm-scale, was tested in five systems in the...

Aquatic invasive species and pathogens can have negative impacts on marine biodiversity and economic activities such as aquaculture. Live animal movement networks are important in defining risk for introduction and spread and for identifying targets for surveillance. We have used Pacific oyster...

This article discusses the declining native oysters (Ostrea edulis) stocks in Scotland due to over-fishing, falling spat recruitment rates, pollution and diseases that lead to the development of hatching-reared oyster production through conditioning and spawning of native and Pacific oysters;...

This special issue covers the progress that has been made by the Scottish aquaculture over the last 3 decades. Although much of this issue looks at the history of the Scottish salmon farming industry, other topics discussed are mussel aquaculture, marine finfish and trout. The articles featured...

Stomach contents of potential predators from a flatfish nursery ground on the Scottish west coast were examined visually and probed using a TaqMan real-time PCR based assay designed to detect plaice Pleuronectes platessa DNA. Stomachs from 1137 brown shrimp Crangon crangon, along with a lesser...

Oomycetes of the genus Saprolegnia are widespread in freshwater environment and are among the main pathogens causing economic losses in salmonid aquaculture. Infections by mycotic agents in fish farming are generally considered to result from chronic stress and poor fish condition associated with...