Seafood relief as UK and Norway strike deal

LONDON and Oslo have signed a new trade deal which allows the continued free movement of Norwegian seafood shipments into Britain. Salmon farming companies and fishermen were worried that the UK’s exit from the EU tonight could be interrupted by tariffs and red tape, even though Norway is not a member of the EU. The development…

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A million trees planted to save salmon

A SCHEME to conserve wild salmon by planting trees on river banks has been launched by the River Dee Trust with the support of the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board. The £5.5 million project will involve planting a million native trees in one of the biggest nature restoration projects in the Cairngorms. The trees will…

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Salmon workboat is Ferguson Marine milestone

THE first of two new boats built by Inverlussa for the Scottish aquaculture market was launched this week at Ferguson Marine. The Helen Rice is the first vessel to be completed since the Port Glasgow yard came into public ownership in December, following a dispute over a multi-million pound CalMac ferries contract. The 21m support…

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Cargill in feed deal with Organic Sea Harvest

SCOTLAND’S newest salmon farmer, Organic Sea Harvest, has signed a deal with feed giant Cargill to supply its two Skye sites. The farms at Invertote and Clunacnoc, which won planning approval in 2018, are due to be stocked with smolts this year. The consents are for two 12 x 400ft pen sites producing a total…

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Russian ban on Bakkafrost salmon could cost £30m

RUSSIA has imposed an import ban on salmon from Bakkafrost in a move which could cost the Faroese fish farmer around £30 million a year in lost income. The surprise decision will come into effect from February 10, with the Russian health authority -known as Rosselkoznador – saying it was due to the detection of ‘unwanted…

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Coronavirus hits Scottish salmon exports

THE coronavirus that has shut down large parts of China has begun to have an impact on Scottish farmed salmon exports, according to the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation. An SSPO spokesperson said: ‘We are obviously monitoring the situation very closely: China is a very important market for us. ‘The early indications are that the demand…

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Norway sales push for net cleaning robot

SCOTTISH based Trimara Services has appointed a Norwegian agent to develop the market for its automatic net cleaner. Arctic Havservice, part of Bamek, an engineering and service company based in Ballangen, will handle sales of the AutoBoss robot in Norway. The fully automated net washing machine has been widely adopted in Canada, the US, Scotland,…

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New Russian ban on Norwegian salmon imports

RUSSIA is claiming to have found the restricted substance crystal violet in Norwegian fish processed in neighbouring Belarus, according to reports from Norway. Also known as gentian violet, crystal violet is used to treat fungal infections and for dying materials such as wood and paper. But the US Food and Drug Administration has said it should…

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Nutreco invests in Kingfish Zeeland expansion

NUTRECO announced today that it is investing in the Dutch company Kingfish Zeeland, which produces fish in a land based RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) farm. The funding will enable Kingfish Zeeland, which supplies markets in Europe and the US, to double its current production capacity of 500 tonnes a year, and scale up in the…

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Robot will ‘transform fish vaccination’

A STIRLING based aquaculture company has won funding to create a ‘transformational’ fish vaccinating robot. Aqualife, in partnership with the government backed Agri-EPI Centre, secured £250,000 from the Seafood Innovation Fund, awarded by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), to develop and launch the robot by the end of next year. The…

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