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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....
Fish Farmer cover July 2024

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