Archive for September 2020
GRIEG Seafood is to end operations at its five farms on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
GRIEG Seafood is to end operations at its five farms on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, because of the long distance between the island and its main base on Shetland. The company said the distance was too great to operate the two areas as one unit, and the Skye operation too small to…
Read MoreLidl to disclose farmed seafood sources
The Lidl supermarket group in the UK has agreed to voluntarily disclose its farmed seafood seafood sources for the first time. The announcement was made by the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP) which said it was pleased with the development, adding that the list of farmed fish and shellfish would be published through the organisation. The…
Read MoreA passion for salmon – SEPTEMBER FISH FARMER
The September issue of Fish Farmer magazine has just been published and our feature interview this month is with the Chair of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) Atholl Duncan. In a wide ranging piece he looks at the challenges and opportunities presented by covid, as well as taking a look at Brexit, the industry\’s…
Read MoreGrimsby salmon business celebrates 20th birthday
The Grimsby-based salmon supplier JCS Fish is marking its 20th anniversary this week with a socially distanced celebration for its staff team. The specialist salmon business was founded by husband and wife team, Andrew and Louise Coulbeck, on September 15th 2000. Twenty years later, turnover has passed £10-million and with a staff of 50, the…
Read MoreISA suspected at large Mowi site
An outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) is suspected at a Mowi site in Norway, while another has been confirmed at a Grieg location in the country. The Mowi incident is at a facility in Vanylven municipality in Møre og Romsdal, says the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The Food Safety Authority said it was notified…
Read More\’Administrative jungle\’ holding up salmon applications
Dozens of operating applications for fish farming operations in Iceland are still stuck in a bureaucratic pipeline, some of them four or five years after they were first submitted, one of the country’s MPs has been told. Iceland’s main newspaper Morgunbladid reports that Jón Gunnarsson, who represents the Independence Party, raised the issue in the…
Read More\’Administrative jungle\’ holding up salmon applications
Dozens of operating applications for fish farming operations in Iceland are still stuck in a bureaucratic pipeline, some of them four or five years after they were first submitted, one of the country’s MPs has been told. Iceland’s main newspaper Morgunbladid reports that Jón Gunnarsson, who represents the Independence Party, raised the issue in the…
Read MoreLarge numbers of escaped fish \’appearing in Scottish rivers\’
Significant numbers of farmed fish are are appearing in Scottish rivers following a large scale escape from the Mowi Aquaculture North Carradale site during Storm Ellen last month, Fisheries Management Scotland has suggested. They are being reported in rivers across Loch Lomond, Ayrshire, Clyde and Argyll and could pose a genetic risk to wild salmon,…
Read MoreLarge numbers of escaped fish \’appearing in Scottish rivers\’
Significant numbers of farmed fish are are appearing in Scottish rivers following a large scale escape from the Mowi Aquaculture North Carradale site during Storm Ellen last month, Fisheries Management Scotland has suggested. They are being reported in rivers across Loch Lomond, Ayrshire, Clyde and Argyll and could pose a genetic risk to wild salmon,…
Read MoreMinister summons salmon companies over escapes
Norway\’s Fisheries and Seafood Minister has called an urgent industry meeting to discuss the rising number of salmon escapes over the past few months. Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen has expressed his concern at the rate of increase and suggested that fish farming companies are not doing enough to tackle the problem: \’Escaped farmed salmon are a…
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