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Nick Joy is not against regulation but, he argues, it would be good to have a clear timetable for any reforms. Here I am, sitting on a big ferry, returning […] Continue Reading
Opinion
Shades of green
The platform thrashed out by the SNP and the Scottish Greens is dangerously vague, argues Hamish Macdonell It’s all in the detail. Or, rather, in the case of the SNP-Green […] Continue Reading
The truth about lice
If you had to urgently find a person who would help save your life and knew nothing about them, then what you might do is to go out into the […] Continue Reading
Unintended consequences
When all of this palaver started about coronavirus, writes Nick Joy, I was one of the people who consistently mispredicted what the outcomes would be. I simply could not believe […] Continue Reading
All eyes on Glasgow
You have to go back 16 years to find the last time Scotland hosted an event with as much global significance and profile as the COP26 summit, due to be […] Continue Reading
Signs of good breeding
Reading the papers has been interesting in the last few weeks, writes Nick Joy, but nothing caught my eye so much as several articles discussing trying to bring taste back […] Continue Reading
Fishy statistics
Dr Martin Jaffa asks: has the pandemic reversed the long decline in fresh fish consumption? A new report commissioned by the Alaskan Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) would seem to suggest […] Continue Reading
Never-ending Brexit
The UK’s European divorce continues to have repercussions for the salmon industry It always used to be said that Scottish devolution was “a process not an event”. Well, it seems […] Continue Reading
Huffing and puffin
Our favourite seabirds are facing a shortage of sand eels, but please don’t blame the fish farmers. On 15 May 2021, the Herald newspaper included a two-page commercial feature placed […] Continue Reading
The feed conundrum
There have been great strides forward in aquafeed, but the industry will need to continue looking for even better solutions. When I was first in the industry, feed was pelletised […] Continue Reading
Disappearing act
A statistical glitch meant figures for Scottish salmon exported to the EU in January were wildly wrong, but it took a while for HMRC to realise there was a problem. […] Continue Reading
Chicken feed
Maybe it’s time to revisit a bright idea from the 1990s? Industry critics regularly refer to comments, made by the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity (REC) Committee in 2018, […] Continue Reading