Archive for October 2018
Loch Duart recognised in rural awards
SALMON farmer Loch Duart has been named runner up in the Best Food Business category at the Rural Business Awards North, held in Bolton, Lancashire. The awards, which are supported by online retailer Amazon, celebrate ‘all that is great’ about rural business in the north of the UK, said the organisers. Alban Denton, managing director…
Read MoreNorway salmon tax probe underway
THE Norwegian government has appointed a special committee made up of leading financial and economic experts to work out how the country’s aquaculture industry should be taxed in future years. Finance minister Siv Jensen said the committee will assess how the tax system should be designed to help the community get a share from the…
Read MoreChanges in MH top management team
MARINE Harvest Group has announced changes in its top management team following the decision by long serving executive Marit Solberg to retire. Solberg, who has worked for the company for more than three decades, was COO Farming Canada, Scotland, Ireland and the Faroes. The company has decided to return to its original management team structure…
Read MoreMarine Harvest feeds local job needs
AROUND 60 per cent of the workforce at Marine Harvest’s new feed plant on Skye have been recruited locally, according to the company. Some 37 out of a total of 53 positions have now been filled and another six staff are due to join the team at Kyleakin before the end of the year. While…
Read MoreRAS fault kills 500,000 Inchmore smolts
MARINE Harvest’s new Inchmore hatchery in Glenmoriston, one of the most advanced recirculating aquaculture systems in the world, lost 500,000 smolts in the summer, according to reports last week. The company said a ‘rare fault within the oxygen supply system to the farm’ caused the accident, which occurred in August. ‘We have since repaired and…
Read MoreSmart site shows where fish are sourced
CONSUMERS can find out where the fish they buy is farmed or caught with a new interactive map launched by Marks & Spencer. The retailer says its website – corporate.marksandspencer.com/seafoodmap – is the first of its kind in the UK and includes information on the capture or farming method and sustainability information for every fishery…
Read MoreTuesday, October 9, fish prices from Lerwick market
FISH MARKET PRICES SHETLAND Tuesday 9th October 2018 6 BOATS LANDED 992 BOXES Ocean Reaper, Allegiance, Devotion, Leona Jane, Venture, Radiant Star SPECIES GRADE VOLUME MAXIMUM AVERAGE kgs PRICE PRICE £ per kg £ per kg CATS 95 3.95 3.86 COD 1 60 3.14 3.09 COD 2 6463 3.97 3.62 COD 3 6124 3.61 3.38…
Read MoreTuesday, October 9, fish prices from Peterhead market
PETERHEAD FISH PRICES. Tues 09.10.2018 Boats 6 Consignments 9 Boxes 3427 Cod Large £4.00 – £6.50 Cod Medium £3.50 – £4.00 Cod Selected £3.00 – £3.50 Cod Small £2.00 – £3.60 Haddock Large £3.50 Haddock Medium £3.50 Haddock Selected £3.50 Seed £3.00 – £3.30 Chippers £1.20 – £2.00 Metros £1.00 – £1.30 Round Haddock 90p…
Read MoreIceland’s premier steps into fish farm row
ICELAND’S fisheries minister is to submit a bill to the country’s parliament today amending the Aquaculture Act to ensure that the two companies who have lost their licences to expand salmon farming in the Westfjords can temporarily continue their operations. The minister, Fiskeldi Kristján Þór Júlíusson, says he wants to be able to grant provisional…
Read MoreCooke’s recipe for offshore success
SCOTLAND’S rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, learnt about advances being made in offshore salmon farming during a recent trip to Orkney. The minister visited Cooke Aquaculture’s Kirkwall base to hear about progress at the company’s new, high energy site at East Skelwick in Westray. Granted planning permission last summer, the farm is 2.5km offshore, and…
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