Bakkafrost buys larger stake in SSC

BAKKAFROST yesterday completed the acquisition of more shares in the Scottish Salmon Company, taking its holding to almost 78 per cent. The Faroese salmon farming company bought a 68.6 per cent controlling interest in the Edinburgh based business last month in a deal eventually worth a total of £517 million. CEO Regin Jacobsen later said…

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Spotlight on students at Berlin show

A TRONDHEIM based PhD student was the audience’s choice for the EAS Student Spotlight Award, announced on day one of the European Aquaculture Society conference in Berlin today. Frank Thomas Mlingi, of NTNU, is researching lumpfish biology, investigating sexual maturation and egg quality in farmed lumpsuckers, under different photoperiod and temperature regimes. Reliance on wild…

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Warm seas, not sea lice, \’led to mass salmon deaths’

WARMING seas, not lice or other infections, were behind a recent high number of salmon deaths on parts of Canada’s east coast, an investigation has found. The probe was carried out by Daryl Whelan, Newfoundland’s chief aquaculture vet, and his team, who found that unseasonal warm water over a 13-day period last month caused oxygen…

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Warm seas, not sea lice, \’led to mass salmon deaths’

WARMING seas, not lice or other infections, were behind a recent high number of salmon deaths on parts of Canada’s east coast, an investigation has found. The probe was carried out by Daryl Whelan, Newfoundland’s chief aquaculture vet, and his team, who found that unseasonal warm water over a 13-day period last month caused oxygen…

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Norway facing challenge from rival salmon countries

RISING volume growth from rival salmon producing nations, including Scotland, is beginning to seriously challenge Norwegian fish farmers, the latest export figures show today. It is the main reason why salmon prices in Norway dipped below the 2018 level last month, although Norwegian output is also on the rise, says Paul T. Aandahl, analyst at…

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Scottish salmon farmers hit back at ‘damaging’ regulator

SCOTLAND’S salmon farmers have today rejected a proposal by Scotland’s environmental regulator to introduce a feed cap. The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) described the initiative as ‘lazy regulation’ which, if introduced, would raise significant fish health and welfare concerns and could undermine the global reputation for quality the sector has built up over the…

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Sepa seeks views on farms’ organic load

THE Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has launched an eight-week public consultation in the next phase of its review of the aquaculture regulation. The technical consultation follows one of the agency’s largest consultation programmes in late 2018, the publication of its Finfish Aquaculture Sector Plan and the introduction of its new regulatory framework in June.…

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Award is ‘icing on the cake’ for Highlands haulier

HIGHLANDS haulier Ferguson Transport & Shipping has been named Highland Business of the Year 2019, a fitting tribute as the company marks its 60th anniversary. The family firm was shortlisted in three categories in the Highland Business Awards, which celebrate the achievements of businesses and individuals throughout the region. Group managing director Alasdair Ferguson was…

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Mowi to move Loch Ewe biomass to \’unique\’ Scalpay site

SCOTLAND’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, has confirmed it will close its Loch Ewe site at the end of the current production cycle, and relocate the biomass to a new high energy farm near Scalpay. The new farm will combine salmon farming with the rearing of other marine species, and could also become a visitor attraction,…

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Mowi to move Loch Ewe biomass to \’unique\’ Scalpay site

SCOTLAND’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, has confirmed it will close its Loch Ewe site at the end of the current production cycle, and relocate the biomass to a new high energy farm near Scalpay. The new farm will combine salmon farming with the rearing of other marine species, and could also become a visitor attraction,…

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