A load of cods?

Atlantic cod

Norway’s Institute of Marine Research is highly critical of cod farming but its views are not backed by evidence, argues Dr Martin Jaffa.

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Changing of the guard

Macduff contract signing (from left): Ben Wilson (Managing Director, Inverlussa Marine Services), Naomi Knight (Project Co-ordinator, Inverlussa Marine Services), John Watt (Managing Director, Macduff Shipyards) and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP

With a new government at Westminster, and new leadership at Holyrood, Salmon Scotland Chief Executive Tavish Scott has been busy ensuring that aquaculture’s voice is heard at the heart of UK politics.

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Record breakers

Fish market, Angola

With aquaculture now producing more than catch fisheries for the first time in human history, has the age of the fish farm arrived?

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What now for RSPCA Assured?

Scottish salmon farm

The campaign group Animal Rising is calling on the RSPCA to drop its ethical food labelling scheme, RSPCA Assured, following what it calls “the biggest scandal in RSPCA history”: a report cataloguing “catastrophic failures across 45 farms assured by the charity”.

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