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Stuck in the slow lane
A pilot scheme suggests that digitising export paperwork could save producers time and money. Since the end of the Brexit transition period, increased bureaucracy has added an extra £3m each year to the cost of exporting salmon to the European Union. So says Tavish Scott, Chief Executive of Salmon Scotland, who says progress towards developing…
Read MoreNew school of thought
Pupils in Stirling are taking part in a trial programme to see how salmon can become a delicious highlight of the school lunch menu. About 18 months ago, my son texted me a picture from school of salmon fillets among the choices on offer for lunch. At first I was delighted, but then I looked…
Read MoreThe May 2022 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online
The last few weeks have seen the return of two big events –Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, in its new home, Barcelona, and the Aquaculture UK trade show in Aviemore, in the Scottish Highlands. In the May issue of Fish Farmer, which you can read here online, we report on the Expo in Barcelona and…
Read MoreMinister promises action on reforming aquaculture regime
Rural Affairs Minister Mairi Gougeon has promised to personally oversee the drafting of a new regulatory regime for aquaculture in Scotland. Speaking at the opening of the Aquaculture UK trade show in Aviemore, in the Scottish Highlands, she announced that a Ministerial Aquaculture Strategy Forum will deliver the recommendations made by Professor Russell Griggs OBE…
Read MoreCall for a more flexible UK immigration regime
The UK’s immigration system is making labour shortages worse in the food and drink sector, according to Scotland’s salmon farmers. Tavish Scott, chief executive of the producers’ organisation Salmon Scotland, has urged the UK Government to add fish processing to its shortage occupation list to make it easier for firms to recruit from the European…
Read MoreFish farmers call for cut in Brexit red tape
Salmon farmers in Scotland are calling for action to ease the burden of export paperwork following the UK’s exit from the European Union. Tavish Scott, Chief Executive of Salmon Scotland, the body representing Scotland’s farmed salmon sector, has written to UK Fisheries Minister Victoria Prentis, arguing that the promised move to a digital system for…
Read MoreAnimal welfare campaigners call for a ‘moratorium’ on fish farming
Animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming has submitted an open letter to the Scottish Parliament calling for a moratorium on salmon farming in Scotland until “a number of animal welfare concerns” have been addressed by the industry. The letter has been signed by nearly 130,000 people and its presentation to Parliament was attended by…
Read MoreBarriers to growth
Scottish salmon is booming – that was certainly the message from the annual export figures last month. Production is up, exports are up and prices are starting to get back to where they were so everything in the Scottish salmon garden is rosy, right? Well, not quite. A key measure of success is not how…
Read MoreAfter the split
It was one of my Salmon Scotland colleagues who put it best: “We have no greater access to Europe than a tilapia farmer from Zimbabwe. We are a third country now and we are being treated as such.” That shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, we knew this was going to happen. We were…
Read MoreIndustry’s conservation fund in second round of grants
The Scottish salmon industry has pledged an additional £120,000 for conservation projects to support wild salmon and sea trout. Applications for grants from the Wild Salmonid Support Fund are invited from today, in a second funding round following the launch of the fund last year. The fund was set up to support organisations that work…
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