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Riding the hype cycle

Features01 Apr 2025by Guest contributor

In the last 50 years, fish farming in Scotland has changed, writes Professor Adam Hughes. It has innovated to such an extent that modern salmon aquaculture is now barely recognisable as the same industry it evolved from.

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