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Tributes to former Northwards boss Murray Prentice
TRIBUTES have been paid to Murray Prentice, the former managing director of haulage firm Northwards, who died on February 2 after a short illness. He was 60. Northwards, a logistics company with bases in Lerwick and Kirkwall in the Northern Isles, as well as in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness and Scrabster, has long put aquaculture at…
Read MoreCooke steelhead plans face new hurdle
PLANS by Cooke Aquaculture to farm steelhead trout instead of Atlantic salmon in its US operations in Puget Sound are being challenged by environmental campaigners. The groups, which include Friends of the Earth and the Wild Fish Conservancy, filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife yesterday. They claim the department…
Read MoreAll aboard for February’s Fish Farmer
IN this month’s Fish Farmer we have a special report on Scotland’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi. In the depths of January, our team visited the company’s headquarters in Fort William and from there were taken on a tour by communications director Ian Roberts. The first stop was the new Inchmore hatchery in Glenmoriston, where manager…
Read MoreIceland salmon farmers grappling with storms
SEVERE weather conditions have been preventing at least one of Iceland’s main salmon companies from carrying out harvesting activities. According to Morgunbladid, Iceland’s main newspaper, the slaughter of fish at Arnarlax’s farms in Hringdal in Arnarfjordur has virtually come to a standstill over the past few weeks, with the result that salmon have been accumulating in the cages,…
Read MoreCosts and lice dampen Mowi Scotland Q4 performance
ALTHOUGH Mowi Scotland achieved record harvests last year due to smolt stocking, the financial performance was dampened by higher costs and challenging biological issues, the company said today as it published results for the fourth quarter of 2019. As reported last month, Scotland’s Q4 harvest rose by more than 2,000 tonnes to just over 14,000 tonnes. The…
Read MoreScottish salmon exports soar to £618m
SCOTTISH farmed salmon exports were worth a record £618 million in 2019, up 22 per cent on the previous year, according to new figures published today. The tonnage exported also increased, by 26 per cent to more than 94,000 tonnes. Exports grew in 17 of the top 20 markets, with France, the US and China remaining the biggest destinations.…
Read MoreYoung\’s modernises pack designs
YOUNG’S Seafood has begun a major overhaul of its pack designs for the first time in many years in order to attract a younger and more socially aware section of society. The format has been launched by Britain’s largest seafood business today across its £62 million core range of products. The redesign represents further investment in the Young’s…
Read MoreYoung\’s modernises pack designs
YOUNG’S Seafood has begun a major overhaul of its pack designs for the first time in many years in order to attract a younger and more socially aware section of society. The format has been launched by Britain’s largest seafood business today across its £62 million core range of products. The redesign represents further investment in the Young’s…
Read MoreAsset sale boost for Norway Royal Salmon
NORWAY Royal Salmon today reported lower margins for both the final quarter last year and for the whole of 2019. But the results are generally seen as reasonably satisfactory and the company benefited considerably from the substantial asset sale of its southern Norwegian business to local fish farming companies. The company announced a Q4 operational EBIT of…
Read MoreRussia slams brakes on \’salmon train\’ project
PLANS to launch a ‘salmon train’ service carrying seafood from Norway into the heart of China have been postponed because of problems with the Russian authorities. Due to have started this month, the 6,500km (4,000 mile) route from Narvik to Xi’an via Finland and Moscow would have been one of the world’s longest rail freight journeys. But the Norwegian magazine…
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