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Garware appoints Sutherland as Scottish manager
Leading netting and ropes manufacturer Garware Technical Fibres has appointed Alan Sutherland, former Managing Director – Scotland with Marine Harvest, as Country Manager for Scotland. His appointment takes effect from 1 July. India-based Garware supplies specialist netting for fisheries and aquaculture around the world. Sutherland brings four decades of experience to the company, including nine…
Read MoreDon’t scrap seafood taskforce, says SSPO
The working group set up to help Scotland’s seafood businesses mitigate the twin impacts of Brexit and Covid-19 should not be disbanded, according to the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation. The Scottish Seafood Exports Taskforce was set up as a joint body with representation from the UK and Scottish governments, as well as the seafood industry.…
Read MoreOffshore harvest
A seaweed nursery in Argyll is set for growth after securing investment funding of up to £75,000 investment from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The £150,000 project aims to expand and commercialise the nursery at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). The nursery will be operated by SAMS Enterprise, the wholly owned commercial subsidiary…
Read MoreMEPs condemn new lice treatment: who’s right?
Last night, the European Parliament passed a motion condemning use of the chemical agent on which Benchmark’s CleanTreat® delousing treatment is based. So, is CleanTreat a threat to the marine environment or a game-changer in the salmon farmers’ war against sea lice? The point at issue is not the CleanTreat system itself, but the chemical…
Read MoreDisappearing act
A statistical glitch meant figures for Scottish salmon exported to the EU in January were wildly wrong, but it took a while for HMRC to realise there was a problem. As every economist knows, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. But that view is not confined to economists. It is…
Read MoreMEST wins contract for Scottish delousing vessel
Faroese shipbuilder MEST has been awarded a contract to convert a supply vessel, Viking Athene, into a delousing vessel for Bakkafrost’s operations in Scotland. Bakkafrost, which owns the Scottish Salmon Company, chose MEST out of eight international contractors for the rebuilding project. The rebuild project includes a number of adjustments and modifications – all timber…
Read MoreSeal scarers could harm porpoises, study finds
The “wall of sound” created by acoustic deterrent devices targeted at seals could harm porpoises up to 28 kilometres away, a study has found. The devices, known as ADDs or “seal scarers”, are used to deter seals from attacking fish farm pens by emitting a sound in the water that seals find unpleasant, as an…
Read MoreUS market will be ‘winner’ for Mowi
Shares in Mowi have risen sharply following a highly encouraging report by a leading international markets institution. According to TDN Direkt, Nordea Markets has upgraded its investor recommendation from hold to buy. It says the last 15 months have been challenging for the world’s largest salmon farmer, but the outlook is now looking considerably brighter…
Read MoreAKVA supplies 160m pens for Mowi on Harris
AKVA group has installed Mowi Scotland’s first 160m pen installation at Loch Seaforth on the Isle of Harris, and 10 pens are now secured on site. In addition to the 10x 160m pens AKVA supplied the sites with two new mooring grids, bird nets and fibreglass poles. AKVA also delivered two HDPE nets in partnership…
Read MoreIndustry celebrates a half century – plus one
Norway has just marked the 50th anniversary of the creation of the modern salmon farming industry – one year late. Celebrations were due to take place in June last year, but they had to be postponed because of the coronavirus lockdown. Not to be beaten, the industry agreed it was too important an occasion to ignore…
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