Macduff Shellfish nets £6.28m profits

By Jenny Hjul | October 8, 2018

MACDUFF, the UK’s largest shellfish processor made a pre-tax profit of £6.28 million last year, according to the company’s latest financial results. This is in spite of various challenges facing the fishing industry in general, not least the uncertainty around Brexit. The Peterhead based company, bought by Canada’s Clearwater Seafoods for £100 million three years…

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Fish Update Briefing, Friday, September 21

By Jenny Hjul | September 21, 2018

LOBSTERS LIVING THE ‘HIGH LIFE’ A RESTAURANT on the east coast of the United States is sedating its lobsters with a form of cannabis in an effort to dull the pain of being steamed alive. Charlotte Gill, who runs the popular Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbour, Maine, told the local Mount Desert Islander…

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