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Report highlights aquaculture’s ‘positive social impact’
An economic study commissioned by Cooke Aquaculture Scotland argues that fish farming has a positive social impact on employment and communities in Orkney and the Northern Isles. The study has been published as Cooke’s planning application for a new salmon farm at East Moclett, off Papa Westray in Orkney is due to be considered next…
Read MoreTavish Scott to address Canadian aquaculture
Tavish Scott, chief executive of Salmon Scotland, will be one of the leading speakers at a major international aquaculture conference which opens on Canada’s east coast next week. Aquaculture Canada and WAS (World Aquaculture Society) North America 2022 is being held in St John’s Newfoundland on September 15-17 and is expected to attract scores of…
Read MoreThe August 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online
The August 2022 issue of Fish Farmer magazine is out now and you can read it here. Our cover this month celebrates Kames Fish Farming, which this year is marking a half century of raising steelhead trout. For one of the pioneers in Scotland’s fish farming industry to be still operating as an independent, family-owned…
Read MoreUrgent action called for to fix Channel hold-ups
Delays at the UK’s Channel ports following Brexit need to be addressed urgently, Scotland’s salmon industry has warned. Yesterday Tavish Scott, Chief Executive of industry body Salmon Scotland, met in Shetland with UK Fisheries Minister Victoria Prentis to highlight the disruption, and the importance of salmon exports for island and rural communities. Fresh salmon from…
Read MoreMessage in a box
Tucked away in the corner of one of the bigger barns at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Show was a three-metre cube with three simple words on it: “Scottish Salmon Experience.” It could have been described as a small cinema but, really, it was much, much more than that. Inside, visitors were transported to a salmon farm…
Read MoreFish farmers braced for higher charges from SEPA
Scotland’s fish farmers are about to see a big increase in the charges levied by SEPA, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, on marine pens. SEPA sets a charge for each application for a finfish pen at sea and an annual “activity charge”, based on biomass in both cases. The new charging scheme will take effect…
Read MoreCall to use farm rents to fix rural housing crisis
Funds raised by Crown Estate Scotland from fish farming licences should be used to help coastal areas tackle the housing crisis. That’s the message from industry body Salmon Scotland, which wants to see a system like that in Norway, where a ring fenced element of farm rents is used to benefit local communities. Analysis by…
Read MoreNew advisory body for Scottish aquaculture meets today
The Scottish Government will today take another step towards reforming aquaculture regulation, with the inaugural meeting of a new strategic advisory group for the sector. The Scottish Aquaculture Council, which meets for the first time today, brings together senior representatives from key organisations with interests in the industry and its environmental and community impacts. The…
Read MoreTrade travails
The final leg of their journey was undertaken in a pair of six-seater taxis from Edinburgh but, given the distances they had travelled just to get to that point, they probably would have travelled by horse-drawn trap had that been the only means available. These were vets, customs officials and government employees from Mongolia. They…
Read MoreThe June 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online
The sense of a return to something like normality was palpable in Aviemore last month, as the Aquaculture UK trade show and conference returned after a four-year absence. You can read our full report from Aquaculture UK in the June issue of Fish Farmer, which is out now online, here. Also in this month’s issue,…
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