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Pressure mounts over Norway’s new fish farm tax
Norway’s largest salmon companies are continuing to pile pressure on government proposals to impose a new 40% land tax on the industry. They include the country’s largest business, Mowi, which has urged the government to reconsider its plan. Mowi, which is cancelling a £19m biomass increase, said: “The aquaculture industry is a future industry that…
Read MoreSIFTing the facts
There is a new worrying trend beginning to appear in the world of science and especially in the science relating to salmon farming. The Sunday Post recently highlighted a new scientific paper detailing carbon emissions produced by the salmon farming sector in Scotland. The research was undertaken at the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh University.…
Read MoreFaroe Islands next on tax hit list?
Fish farmers on the Faroe Islands could be next to face higher government taxes, it emerged today. Bakkafrost, the country’s largest salmon farmer has issued a statement warning that administrators are working on proposals to adjust revenue taxes to reflect the recent high increases in salmon prices. The news follows the Norwegian bombshell yesterday where…
Read MoreMowi will appeal Loch Hourn planning decision
Mowi is appealing to the Scottish Government over the refusal of planning permission for expansion at its farm on Loch Hourn, a sea loch on Scotland’s west coast. The salmon producer had applied for permission to add another cage and increase biomass at the site by 10%, to 2,750 tonnes, but in June the Highland…
Read MoreOrkney farm wins ASC accreditation
Scottish Sea Farms’ Lober Rock site in Orkney has been awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification. It is the first of the company’s sites in Orkney to win ASC status. Lober Rock, a marine salmon farm at the south-easterly corner of Scapa Flow, underwent a series of audits to meet the ASC’s stringent criteria. Earlier this…
Read MoreBakkafrost takes delivery of all-electric workboat
Bakkafrost has taken delivery of its first fully electric catamaran as part of the company’s strategy to increase the use of sustainable energy. The company’s CEO, Regin Jacobsen, has used the launch to call for greater investment in the Faroes power grid in order to help wean industry off its dependence on fossil fuels. The…
Read MorePatoGen hires Johanna Baily as senior adviser
Fish health diagnostics business PatoGen has appointed Dr Johanna Baily as Senior Adviser in Histopathology. PatoGen, which has its headquarters in Ålesund, Norway, has been operating in Scotland since 2014 and opened a laboratory in Oban last year, offering preventive and diagnostic services to the salmon industry in Scotland. PatoGen has recently entered into a…
Read MoreAccountability
In last month’s edition of Fish Farmer, you will have seen a report on the serious decline of wild salmon, not just on the West Coast of Scotland as it was previously mooted. I describe it that way because there are too many statistics challenging the notion that the coasts are fundamentally different. There never…
Read MorePraise for Bakkafrost’s sustainability reporting
Salmon producer Bakkafrost has received an accolade for its environmental reporting. A new report from Position Green (formerly The Governance Group) ranks Faroes-based Bakkafrost among the top performers of the 300 largest companies on the Scandinavian stock exchanges regarding ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting. Bakkafrost also owns the business formerly known as The Scottish…
Read MorePlanners approve Cooke’s new Orkney farm site
The Orkney Islands Council has approved the application by Cooke Aquaculture for a new salmon farm site in the north of the islands. The six-cage site will be based at East Moclett, off the island of Papa Westray in Orkney’s North Sound, with permission for up to 3,850 tonnes of biomass. The proposal had seen…
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