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Bakkafrost expecting large Q3 harvest increase
FAROESE salmon farmer Bakkafrost, which last week bought a controlling interest in the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), is predicting significantly higher output for the third quarter of this year. In a trading update today, the company said harvest volumes for the three months between June and September will be 12,900 tonnes compared with 7,217 tonnes…
Read MoreMowi\’s new lumpfish site delivers to Faroes
MOWI Scotland has delivered lumpfish to its sister company in the Faroe Islands for the first, after buying the cleaner fish company Ocean Matters earlier this year. The fish made their five-day journey to the Oyndarfjordur site, it was reported in The Scoop, Mowi’s monthly newsletter, published today. ‘This was the first ‘proof of concept’…
Read MoreMowi\’s new lumpfish site delivers to Faroes
MOWI Scotland has delivered lumpfish to its sister company in the Faroe Islands for the first, after buying the cleaner fish company Ocean Matters earlier this year. The fish made their five-day journey to the Oyndarfjordur site, it was reported in The Scoop, Mowi’s monthly newsletter, published today. ‘This was the first ‘proof of concept’…
Read MoreTrudeau salmon shutdown slammed as reckless
THE Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) has condemned as ‘reckless’ a proposal by Canada’s ruling Liberal Party to ban all open net salmon farming in British Columbia by 2025. The pledge, supported by various political groups in the province, has now been accepted as official future policy by the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, Canada’s…
Read MoreScottish salmon production drops by 33,682 tonnes
SCOTTISH salmon production fell by 33,682 tonnes, or 17.8 per cent, last year to 156,025 tonnes, with the reduction attributed to fewer fish in the water. But the projected estimate for 2019 suggests an increase to 190,499 tonnes, according to the annual Scottish fish farm production survey, published today. Commenting on the figures, Julie Hesketh-Laird,…
Read MoreNorwegians probe rise in salmon escapes
SEAFOOD Norway has called on its members to carry out a thorough investigation into why so many salmon have escaped from fish farms this year. The latest figure of more than 280,000 escapes in 30 separate incidents is one of the highest for many years, and seafood minister Harald T Nesvik has bluntly told the…
Read MoreEU law on gene editing \’barrier to innovation\’
THE European Union Commission must support innovation in biotech and gene editing if it is to achieve its ambitions for creating clean technology and high value jobs, a British MEP warned this week. Anthea McIntyre, UK Conservative spokeswoman on agriculture and the environment, said population increase, climate change and pressures from alternative land use all…
Read MoreEU law on gene editing \’barrier to innovation\’
THE European Union Commission must support innovation in biotech and gene editing if it is to achieve its ambitions for creating clean technology and high value jobs, a British MEP warned this week. Anthea McIntyre, UK Conservative spokeswoman on agriculture and the environment, said population increase, climate change and pressures from alternative land use all…
Read MoreNRS sells southern sites to local farmers
ONE of Norway’s biggest salmon producers, Norway Royal Salmon, has sold its southern farming operations to a group of local farmers. Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) agreed a deal with Tombre Fiskeanlegg, Lingalaks and Eidesvik Laks to sell its subsidiary Sør Farming for NOK 1.2 billion (about £110 million). Sør Farming has six salmon licences amounting…
Read MoreBakkafrost plans bid for all SSC shares
BAKKAFROST plans to bid for the entire shareholding of the Scottish Salmon Company, its chief executive said today. Yesterday, the Faroe Islands’ largest salmon farmer announced it had acquired a 68.6 per cent stake in SSC from Northern Link in a deal worth £517 million. But CEO Regin Jacobsen said in a presentation at the…
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