Archive for August 2020
Loch Duart helps fund new accessible Wheelyboat
Independent Scottish salmon farm, Loch Duart, has donated over £7,300 through its Salmon Pool fund, to the North Uist and South Uist Angling Clubs to help purchase a brand-new, accessible boat. National charity, The Wheelyboat Trust, in partnership with the Angling Trust, will supply the new boat, giving disabled anglers and boating enthusiasts throughout the…
Read MoreBakkafrost reports \’positive Q2\’ despite EBIT drop
The Bakkafrost Group today reported a positive performance from all of its activities during the second quarter of this year despite the financial impact of Covid-19 – with the Scottish Salmon Company, its new acquisition, playing a strong role. The Faroese salmon farmer delivered a total operating EBIT of 181.9 million Danish kroner (DKK) (£22…
Read MoreBakkafrost reports \’positive Q2\’ despite EBIT drop
The Bakkafrost Group today reported a positive performance from all of its activities during the second quarter of this year despite the financial impact of Covid-19 – with the Scottish Salmon Company, its new acquisition, playing a strong role. The Faroese salmon farmer delivered a total operating EBIT of 181.9 million Danish kroner (DKK) (£22…
Read MoreFEEDNETICS™ – free webinar
SPAROS is organizing another free webinar on their nutritional tool FEEDNETICS™, this time for the Aquafeed sector, on October 1st, 2020. SPAROS has been presenting a series of webinars to show a diverse audience how their nutritional tools can help users to predict the effects of nutritional and environmental factors on fish growth, feed conversion,…
Read MoreDiving In
Ross-shire Diving Services land major Mowi contract When Brian Watson and Fiona Cameron made the decision to leave successful careers in New Zealand to return to Scotland, it was with the vision of setting up a new life with their young family and return to the area where they grew up. Watson began his diving…
Read MoreAustevoll Q2 results impacted by covid
Austevoll Seafood has become the latest company to report a Covid-19 hit on its 2020 second quarter performance due to lower margins from trout and Atlantic salmon, including Scottish Sea Farms in which it has an interest. The figures might have been worse had it not been for higher earnings from its pelagic fishing activity…
Read MoreThe GOOD Life
OK Marine is an active contributor in the fight against salmon lice. They use cleaner fish as a natural delousing tool and have built a complete concept to create the optimal conditions and welfare for cleaner fish. The concept is called the GOOD concept and provides proper protection, adapted feeding and a safe environment to…
Read MoreFish farm auction nets 6 billion kroner
The big Norwegian fish farming permit auction this week netted more than half a billion pounds sterling – or just short of six billion kroner. A total of 30 aquaculture companies paid the record amount and they will share new licenses capable of producing an additional 27,000 tonnes a year. At least NOK two billion…
Read MoreBREAKING: Mowi\’s North Carradale farm hit by Storm Ellen
Mowi Scotland have reported that its farm at North Carradale was hit by Storm Ellen yesterday. The company have issued the following statement: \’On August 20, 2020, Mowi’s salmon farm at Carradale North, consisting of 10 circular net pens containing 550,000 salmon (@~4.2kgs), shifted position after its seabed anchors became dislodged during Storm Ellen that…
Read MoreBREAKING: Mowi\’s North Carradale farm hit by Storm Ellen
Mowi Scotland have reported that its farm at North Carradale was hit by Storm Ellen yesterday. The company have issued the following statement: \’On August 20, 2020, Mowi’s salmon farm at Carradale North, consisting of 10 circular net pens containing 550,000 salmon (@~4.2kgs), shifted position after its seabed anchors became dislodged during Storm Ellen that…
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