What’s in a word
In last month’s edition the definition of sustainable investment for the blue economy was discussed (“A question of definition”, Fish Farmer October 2021). As sustainability is one of my favourite […] Continue Reading
Opinion
Chain reaction
The SSPO’s rebrand is more than just a change of name, as Hamish Macdonell reports. “You have to make it relevant to them: how does it affect them in their […] Continue Reading
Meal deals
The ‘value added’ packaged salmon meal was an idea that came and went, as Dr Martin Jaffa reports. I’m in the process of moving office and the move offers the […] Continue Reading
A question of definition
Dr Adam Hughes asks: What does “sustainable investment” in the Blue Economy mean for fish farming? If the marine economy were a country, its GDP would rank about 7th globally […] Continue Reading
Common purpose
Anglers and farmers are united in a desire to help wild salmon survive, writes Hamish Macdonell It was the angler who first introduced me to the Tweed who came up […] Continue Reading
Home thoughts
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
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