The first ever International Cleaner Fish Summit is taking place this week at the Technology & Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The event is co-hosted by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) in partnership with the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF), and brings together 180 industry practitioners from the Faroes, Iceland, Ireland, Norway and Scotland to discuss the key issues of cleaner fish; improve understanding; and, in turn, ensure the most efficient use of this biological control against sea lice.

Over three days, delegates have been hearing from an international line-up of speakers on priority themes including transportation, deployment, cohabitation, sustainability, health and nutrition, along with the range of tools and support now available to practitioners.

Heather Jones, CEO of SAIC said: “Greater sea lice control has been one of our priorities since day one, as has sharing the insights gleaned from SAIC-supported projects with the wider Scottish aquaculture sector. So to see our industry and academic partners exchange the knowledge being gained with their industry and international peers is a truly landmark moment.”

Helping make the International Cleaner Fish Summit possible is the generous support of a range of partners from participating countries, including gold partners Scottish Sea Farms; silver partners BioMar and StofnFiskur; and bronze partners AquaGen, EWOS, HiddenFjord, Patogen and Skretting.

Exhibitors include Aquality, JETE Innovation, OK Marine, Pacific Trading and Skjerneset fisk AS.

In the session on Optimizing Performance, presentations included \"Feeding: feed producer perspective\" by Dan Leeming of BioMar and \"Feeding: industry perspective\" by Mads Lenes of Marine Harvest Norway.