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Salmon producer Scottish Sea Farms has appointed Duane Coetzer as Regional Manager for Orkney, completing the restructure of its Northern Isles operations following the acquisition of Grieg Seafood Shetland in […] Continue Reading
Norway Royal Salmon and SalMar last night finally sealed their merger, creating the world’s second largest Atlantic salmon farming business. The deal was agreed following an extraordinary general meeting of […] Continue Reading
Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi is to go into the land-based salmon farming business in its home country. Mitsubishi, which employs 80,000 people worldwide, is already the owner of Cermaq, which […] Continue Reading
Mowi has been fined NOK 16.3 m (£1.3m) by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). The penalty relates to the illegal abstraction of water at hatcheries in two […] Continue Reading
Miami-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire has raised more than £100m (NOK 1.23bn) to complete the financing of its ambitious Florida development. The money will be used to fund the second […] Continue Reading
Cooke Aquaculture has said it considers its AU $1 billion (£567m) bid for the Tasmanian salmon farmer Tassal to be an attractive proposition for shareholders. Yesterday the company submitted an […] Continue Reading
The Kingfish Company has finally received federal approval for its proposed new Dutch Yellowtail facility in Jonesport, Maine. The permit was granted by the US Army Corps of Engineers and […] Continue Reading
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 […] Continue Reading
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 […] Continue Reading