Cooking up a storm

Protests over Mowi’s TV game show sponsorship have reheated old arguments about farmed fish mortality, as Dr Martin Jaffa reports in the February issue of Fish Farmer magazine. Read it online here, on page 24 of Fish Farmer’s February issue.

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Time for dialogue

Those who are dedicated to shutting down the aquaculture sector should take the time to hear the case for the industry’s defence, Dr Martin Jaffa argues in the January issue of Fish Farmer. Now that the Christmas tree has gone, the decorations put away for another year and all those empties have gone to recycling,…

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Winning the battle over wild fish

Anglers are beginning to realise that salmon farmers are not responsible for all their problems, Hamish Macdonell writes in the January issue of Fish Farmer “If salmon farms are responsible for the decline in wild salmon and there are only farms on the west coast, why are wild salmon numbers going down on the east…

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Brexit evolves

If Brexit is a process, rather than an event, where does it need to go next? Salmon Scotland’s Hamish Macdonell considers what the way forward is for the UK’s seafood industry as the country’s relationship with the European Union continues to be a matter of negotiation. Read his article on page 26 of December’s Fish…

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Yule love this salmon

Christmas has always been the peak time for selling salmon even though increased availability throughout the year has meant the peak is no longer as great as it used to be. But will the supermarkets ever return to the “value-added” products that used to be a big feature in the marketing of salmon? Dr Martin…

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Valuable lessons

I’m sure you can imagine the scene: a school canteen at lunchtime, it is loud, it is busy, there is good-natured pushing and shoving while teachers try to keep order. When the students get to the front, there is something new on the menu. This week it is salmon and spicy noodles; next week it…

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Times past

I hope you will allow the intrusion of the personal this month. You see, my dear old Mum finally made it over the threshold into the next world. She died in August and we have just passed the thanksgiving, and all of the kind people telling us about how amazing she was. The truth is…

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The Fisher King

As we leave the Elizabethan age and Prince Charles ascends the throne as King Charles III, the press has speculated whether our new king will continue to champion his environmental agenda or whether he  will now take a back seat. According to the BBC News, his friends say that he will not cool on environmental…

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SIFTing the facts

There is a new worrying trend beginning to appear in the world of science and especially in the science relating to salmon farming. The Sunday Post recently highlighted a new scientific paper detailing carbon emissions produced by the salmon farming sector in Scotland. The research was undertaken at the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh University.…

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Accountability

In last month’s edition of Fish Farmer, you will have seen a report on the serious decline of wild salmon, not just on the West Coast of Scotland as it was previously mooted. I describe it that way because there are too many statistics challenging the notion that the coasts are fundamentally different. There never…

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