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Two senior hires for Seafood Scotland
Seafood Scotland, the national trade and marketing body for Scottish seafood, has created two new senior roles to help promote the industry, including a new initiative to support langoustine exports. Karen Galloway joins as Head of Retail and Matthew Hurst takes on the role of Programme Manager. In her new post, Karen Galloway will support the strategic development…
Read MoreCooke Aquaculture opens new Scotland office
Cooke Aquaculture, one of the top producers of Scottish salmon, has opened a new Scotland corporate office. It is located in Avondale House in Strathclyde Business Park in Bellshill, close to the main motorway serving Glasgow and Edinburgh – Scotland’s two largest cities. The main-door, ground floor office is in a prime location within the…
Read MoreScottish Salmon Company loses Arran appeal
The Scottish Salmon Company has failed in a bid to reverse a planning decision over a proposed salmon farm on the Isle of Arran. The application for planning permission for a farm and feed barge east of Millstone Point, Lochranza had been refused by North Ayrshire Council. The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) appealed but the…
Read MoreLoch Duart salmon on the menu for COP26
Delegates at the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow will be tucking into Scottish salmon from independent producer Loch Duart. The conference runs from 31 October to 12 November. Loch Duart will be providing fresh fillets and specially prepared smoked salmon portions, for meals and lunchboxes. The choice of a farm based in the north…
Read MoreNew model will show salmon farms’ impact
A consortium of research organisations in Scotland is developing what is hoped will be a more accurate way of predicting how salmon farms interact with their surrounding environment. The new model is intended to help inform decisions on future farm locations and the development of existing farms, and to enhance the sector’s overall sustainability. The…
Read MoreLoch Long Salmon kicks off planning process
In a long-awaited move, Loch Long Salmon (LLS) has submitted a planning application to develop Scotland’s first semi-closed fish farm. The proposed farm site is at Loch Long near Beinn Reithe in Argyll. LLS submitted the application to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Planning Authority on 8 October, starting a process which…
Read MoreMowi seeks interdict against anti-salmon farming campaigner
Scotland’s largest salmon farmer, Mowi, is seeking a permanent interdict in the courts to prevent activist Don Staniford from accessing its farm sites without permission. Mowi said that it had commenced proceedings to apply for the interdict – the Scottish equivalent of an injunction – preventing Staniford from “entering onto, attaching vessels to or approaching…
Read More2020 saw growth halted for Scottish salmon sector
Production of farmed Atlantic salmon in Scotland was down 5.8% to 192,129 tonnes in 2020 – but this was still the second highest level recorded. Farmed brown and sea trout numbers were also down, but rainbow trout saw a small increase. The figures come from the Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020, published today by…
Read MoreStudy aims to help wild salmon survive climate change
Warmer temperatures globally are presenting major challenges to Scotland’s wild salmon population, according to Scotland’s Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon. The Scottish Government has announced a £550,000 fund, including £150,000 provided by Crown Estate Scotland, for research into the impacts of climate change and pollution on wild salmon, and on ways to mitigate them –…
Read MoreSSPO funds wild salmon conservation projects
The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation has provided conservation bodies with funding of more than £70,000 to help ensure the future of wild salmon. The awards were made through the Wild Salmonid Support Fund, which is financed by the leading fish farming companies and managed by the independent grant making charity, Foundation Scotland. The fund, launched…
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