A long road to progress

Features22 Oct 2025by Sandy Neil

FiiZK Protectus semi-closed pen

The Scottish Government has overturned the Loch Lomond park planning authority to give the go-ahead to what would be Scotland’s first commercial scale semi-closed fish farming facility. But what would a ‘semi-closed’ system look like and has this approach been tried and tested elsewhere? Sandy Neil investigates

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