Archive for October 2018
Wednesday, October 17, fish prices from Grimsby market
FISH PRICES WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER 2018 TOTAL BOXES FOR SALE: 1330 TODAY KILOS: 66500 WE DO NOT BUY OR SELL FISH THIS IS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY – Prices are in £ per kilo Vessels Overland Norwegian Icelandic Other – 22 35 1262 11 SPECIES Size Low High Low High Low High COD 1 XL…
Read MoreWednesday, October 17, fish prices from Peterhead market
PETERHEAD FISH PRICES. Wed 17.10.2018 Boats 9 Consignments 7 Boxes 5686 Cod Large £2.50 – £4.50 Cod Medium £2.50 – £3.20 Cod Selected £2.50 – £3.00 Cod Small £1.50 – £2.50 Haddock Large £2.20 – £2.70 Haddock Medium £2.20 – £2.70 Haddock Selected £2.20 – £2.70 Seed £1.50 – £1.90 Chippers £1.00 – £1.60 Metros…
Read MoreSalmon star in BBC special
A LEADING salmon farmer said the industry in the future would need to ‘think a little bit differently’ if it wants to produce more fish. Interviewed for a special BBC Scotland documentary about the impact of farmed salmon on wild stocks, Steve Bracken, who worked at Marine Harvest for 41 years until his retirement in…
Read MoreTuesday, October 16, fish prices from Lerwick market
FISH MARKET PRICES SHETLAND Tuesday 16th October 2018 7 BOATS LANDED 1249 BOXES Malle, Resilient, Faith Emily, Copious, Prolific, Radiant Star, Devotion SPECIES GRADE VOLUME MAXIMUM AVERAGE kgs PRICE PRICE £ per kg £ per kg CATS 419 4.08 3.91 COD 1 630 3.84 3.80 COD 2 5481 3.65 3.14 COD 3 4010 2.95 2.68…
Read MoreAll change on climate committee
THE convener of a Holyrood committee that produced a critical report on the salmon farming sector earlier this year has been replaced. Graeme Dey (SNP), who oversaw proceedings by the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) committee during the first salmon inquiry of the year, has handed over to Gillian Martin, also a Scottish…
Read MoreAnother first for prize Cooke man
THE first student to complete the Technical Apprenticeship in Aquaculture Management was honoured with a new prize in NAFC Marine Centre UHI’s annual awards ceremony last week. John McCulloch of Cooke Aquaculture was given the inaugural Ertie Nicolson Prize in memory of the late Ertie Nicolson, who had a long association with the NAFC. McCulloch,…
Read MoreTuesday, October 16, fish prices from Grimsby market
FISH PRICES TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2018 TOTAL BOXES FOR SALE: 2546 TODAY KILOS: 127300 WE DO NOT BUY OR SELL FISH THIS IS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY – Prices are in £ per kilo Vessels Overland Norwegian Icelandic Other – 26 – 2185 335 SPECIES Size Low High Low High Low High COD 1 XL…
Read MoreTuesday, October 16, fish prices from Peterhead market
PETERHEAD FISH MARKET PRICES Tuesday 16.10.2018 Boats 8 Consignments 12 Boxes 6489 Cod Large £2.70 – £3.60 Cod Medium £2.60 – £3.00 Cod Selected £2.00 – £2.60 Cod Small baby £1.40 – £2.50 Haddock Large £2.50 – £3.25 Haddock Medium £2.30 – £2.50 Haddock Selected £2.30 – £2.90 Seed £2.00 – £2.30 Chippers £1.25 –…
Read MoreNorway to fly salmon direct to China
THE Chinese operated Hainan Airlines is to start the first direct flights from Oslo to Beijing next spring in a move that will boost Norway’s seafood market in China. Norway is looking to increase its salmon exports to China’s burgeoning middle classes and the Norwegian Seafood Council predicted in the summer that the volume of…
Read MoreHuon expands to Western Australia
HUON Aquaculture, the large Tasmanian salmon farming group, is to create a 24,000 tonne capacity fish farm on a 6,000 acre location off the Abrolhis Islands in Western Australia. David Kelly, the fisheries minister for Western Australia, confirmed that the company has signed a contract with the state government for a lease in the mid-west…
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