With any pioneering area of aquaculture, there come any number of risks, unexpected costs, and the ever-present threat of mass mortalities, and nowhere has that been truer than the burgeoning field of land-based fish farms, whether recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) or flow-through designs.

On this basis, the independent Norwegian research organization SINTEF has been working on a collaborative land-based smolt research project with aquatech manufacturers ScaleAQ, as well as commercial-scale flow-through pioneers Salmon Evolution and Andfjord Salmon [...]