UK: Scotland's overseas food sales passed the £1bn mark last year, according to HM Revenue and Customs figures.Food exports, which were boosted by strong sales of salmon and potatoes, were also helped by the fall in the value of sterling.

UK: Wide-ranging new food-labelling laws moved a step closer this week after receiving the backing of MEPs.

IRELAND: Salmon Watch Ireland (Swirl) has learned through a parliamentary question that 827,000 Euro of licence fee arrears is owed to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by salmon farm companies, according to the Irish Times.

Canada: In recognition of the importance of fish health to the provincial aquaculture industry, the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada’s east coast was thrilled to be at the opening ceremony along with other government officials and industry representatives.

Marine Harvest Norway has expensed exceptional costs of approximately NOK 50 million which are mainly relating to pancreas disease (PD) in Region South.

The final step in the process of creating global standards for salmon farming began today when the Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue kicked off the last public comment period for the draft standards.

Canada: Objecting to claims that this will be a sustainable operation, the British Columbia- based Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) sees only one acceptable way of farming salmon- in some form of “closed containment” facility

Chile: The CEO of Marine Harvest Chile, Roberto Riethmüller, commented that his company is going to increase its production from 9 000 tonnes in 2010 to 40 000 tonnes in 2012.

The AQUA NOR FORUM is going to be the place for science, industry, consumers and policy makers to discuss the key issues that affect aquaculture development according to organisers, the European Aquaculture Society in cooperation with the Nor-Fishing Foundation, SINTEF and CREATE.

An iPhone app from Nofima will assist fishmongers to evaluate how fresh a batch of fish is. The app was launched Wednesday at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.

The perils facing the fish whose home is around Scotland’s coast and waterways will be the theme for Aberdeen’s involvement in a European day of action next month.

A new website launched today will help to educate the public about the benefits of salmon farming and bring together salmon farmers from around the world.

The boards of directors of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) have the pleasure to announce that the AQUA 2012 event will take place in the Czech Republic capital, Prague, from September 1-5, 2012.

The aquaculture company Grieg Seafood Hjaltland, which is based in Shetland, is on an expansion route with the news yesterday that it has acquired two salmon farming sites in Scotland.

Salmon farmers, retailers and animal welfare groups are joining forces to bring to an end the killing of problem seals at salmon farms as quickly as possible.

Results being unveiled at today’s BIM/IFA Rope Mussel Workshop in the Claregalway Hotel on the trials undertaken on JFC’s mussel floats have been described as “astounding” by an internationally renowned mussels production expert

Marine Harvest has filed a complaint on today's restrictions on ownership to EFTA's surveillance authority, ESA.

TWO 'doomsday' scenario reports on the state of fish stocks, one global and the other closer to home in Scotland were published at the weekend.

ICELAND has announced that it is delaying its controversial individual transferable quota recall plan for 12 months.

Alan Coghill, the Secretary of the Orkney Fisheries Association (OFA), has been elected as the new President of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation.

THE Prince of Wales has said that retailers were in an ideal position to play an important part in promoting fish sustainability.

ONE of the United States' leading chefs has issued a writ for damages against BP and related companies for the loss of normal seafood supplies to restaurants in the Gulf region.

THE pharmaceutical firm Pharmaq has received received a provisional marketing authorisation from the Chilean authorities for a vaccine against infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).

A strong Scottish contingent is heading for the world's largest seafood show, the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) in Brussels (April 27-29), where companies exhibiting on the Scottish Pavilion expect to generate sales leads in excess of £20 million.

THE Iceland volcanic ash crisis has brought an unexpected bonus for a group of salmon farmers - on the other side of the world in New Zealand!

The Norwegian company Cryogenetics Ltd. has made a significant breakthrough by inventing a method for the cryo-(freezing)-preservation of fish embryos down to -130° C (-202° F)

THE Scottish Fishermen's Federation is calling for talks to try to settle the simmering shellfish dispute off the Yorkshire Coast.

Stornoway Coastguard were called on Thursday evening to assist a Norwegian registered fishing vessel with an injured crewman, fishing sixty nautical miles west of North Uist.