Posts Tagged ‘Marine Harvest’
Skretting to close down UK feed plants
FEED company Skretting is to close down its UK operations due to market overcapacity, the company announced today. The Stavanger, Norway, headquartered firm has started a process of consulting with employees with the view to cease production in the UK at the end of April 2019. The move is aimed at reducing the overcapacity in the highly…
Read MoreFarmed and wild salmon sectors seek consensus
THE first meeting of the farmed and wild salmon interactions group, held yesterday in Edinburgh, got off to a good start, according to its chairman, John Goodlad. The group, established by Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing in May as part of the Strategic Framework for Farmed Fish Health, includes representatives from the farming and…
Read MoreSeafood index soars on high salmon prices
THE prospect of high salmon prices for the next 12 months almost sent the Seafood Index on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Børs) into orbit earlier this week. Launched only two and a half years ago, the index includes most of the big Norwegian salmon farming companies. It hit a new high on Monday, signalling a…
Read MoreMarine Harvest signs Alibaba deal
MARINE Harvest signed a ground-breaking agreement with China’s Alibaba, the world’s largest internet trading company. Described as a memorandum of understanding, the agreement is with Win-Chain, the fresh food supply chain owned by the Alibaba Group, which dwarfs the likes of US giants like Amazon when it comes to internet trading. The aim is to…
Read MoreSalmon star in BBC special
A LEADING salmon farmer said the industry in the future would need to ‘think a little bit differently’ if it wants to produce more fish. Interviewed for a special BBC Scotland documentary about the impact of farmed salmon on wild stocks, Steve Bracken, who worked at Marine Harvest for 41 years until his retirement in…
Read MoreNorway to fly salmon direct to China
THE Chinese operated Hainan Airlines is to start the first direct flights from Oslo to Beijing next spring in a move that will boost Norway’s seafood market in China. Norway is looking to increase its salmon exports to China’s burgeoning middle classes and the Norwegian Seafood Council predicted in the summer that the volume of…
Read MoreManager jobs for fast track trainees
THE first two graduates from a salmon farm management scheme have both started new jobs at Marine Harvest. The young managers, Kendall Hunter, 23, and Benjamin Weis, 27, completed a fast track programme at the company, involving 75 weeks of intensive training, the Press and Journal reported yesterday. They will take up positions as farm…
Read MoreMarine Harvest feeds local job needs
AROUND 60 per cent of the workforce at Marine Harvest’s new feed plant on Skye have been recruited locally, according to the company. Some 37 out of a total of 53 positions have now been filled and another six staff are due to join the team at Kyleakin before the end of the year. While…
Read MoreRAS fault kills 500,000 Inchmore smolts
MARINE Harvest’s new Inchmore hatchery in Glenmoriston, one of the most advanced recirculating aquaculture systems in the world, lost 500,000 smolts in the summer, according to reports last week. The company said a ‘rare fault within the oxygen supply system to the farm’ caused the accident, which occurred in August. ‘We have since repaired and…
Read MoreBC summit champions salmon sector
FISHERIES scientists and chefs will gather in the western Canadian coastal city of Campbell River this week to celebrate and discuss the latest advancements in aquaculture. The British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association’s summit, Seafood West, which runs from September 27-28, will focus on the value of independent science, partnerships, realising potential, and telling the story…
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