an Roberts - 'a company’s staff and livestock must be safeguarded from potential hazardous interference'

Comment: Leave our farms alone

It’s time for government to protect workers’ rights from protesters, argues Mowi Scotland\'s director of communications. AS activists continue to sidestep the democratic process in favour of interrupting work spaces,...
Scottish  farmed salmon‘s feed suppliers will continue to ensure their ingredients are sourced from responsible and sustainable fisheries, said the SSPO

Comment: Why Changing Markets must change their tune

THE sensationalist headlines above a new report from a lobbying group called the Changing Markets Foundation ran alarm bells in the Fish Farmer newsroom yesterday. If the organisation’s marketing team...
Susan Farquharson, executive director  of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association

Trudeau farm ban plan ‘nonsense’ say farmers

SALMON farmers in Canada have one word for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to ban open net pen production in British Columbia: nonsense. In their manifestos for the forthcoming federal...
Fish Cartoon Nick Joy

Recirculating ideas in land based farming

VERY early in my career, in the face of the usual barrage of criticism from the wild salmonid sector, someone started to talk about growing salmon on land. I was...
A new 'Open Farm' scheme at Scotland's salmon farms has now been postponed

Salmon farms are the victim of wild claims and myths

PANORAMA used to be the ‘window on the world’, where Richard Dimbleby, the father of current affairs television, established the standards of BBC excellence. What would he have made of...
Hamish Macdonell

OPINION: Don\’t blame farms for nationwide decline

THE first proper spring salmon I ever saw was pulled from the icy waters of the Tay on a bitter March day 20 years ago. There was snow in the...
Hamish Macdonell

OPINION: Don\’t blame farms for nationwide decline

THE first proper spring salmon I ever saw was pulled from the icy waters of the Tay on a bitter March day 20 years ago. There was snow in the...
Wild salmon

OPINION: Success in the salmon farming zone

PARTICIPANTS at the recent Fisheries Management Scotland conference were given a copy of the latest annual review, which includes reports from all the main salmon and sea trout rivers. The...
Fish Cartoon Nick Joy

OPINION: No decision is the worst decision with Brexit

I KNOW, I can’t apologise enough for writing about Brexit, but I also can’t bear the utter incompetence of what is going on. It has the mesmeric attraction of a...
Fish Farmer November 2024

The November 2024 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online