Posts Tagged ‘Mowi Scotland’
Outgoing Mowi chief earned £1.5m last year
FORMER Mowi chief executive Alf-Helge Aarskog earned 19 million kroner – or almost £1.5 million – last year, according to the company’s 248-page annual report, released this week. Aarskog, who stepped down in November after 10 years at the helm, successfully built the Norwegian based company into not only the world’s largest salmon farming business, but also a…
Read MoreScottish Pavilion offers Brussels refund
SCOTTISH seafood companies that had booked exhibition space at the now postponed Brussels expo are to be refunded by the Scottish government. Any firms that booked space within the Scottish Pavilion at the world’s biggest seafood exhibition, which had been scheduled for April 21-23, will get their money back, said Scottish Development International (SDI). Although…
Read MoreIndustry news and views in latest Fish Farmer
IN the new look March issue of Fish Farmer, out now, we go behind the scenes of Mowi Scotland’s feed mill on Skye and talk to the company’s Claes Jonermark about market needs, Mowi feeds and the benefits of fully integrated farming. Switching the focus to Europe, the executive director of the European Aquaculture Society,…
Read MoreMowi names man killed at farm site
Mowi Scotland named the man who died in a workplace accident at Ardintoul, Kyle of Lochalsh, last month as assistant manager Clive Hendry. According to the Marine Accident Investigation Branch, the accident happened as Hendry was disembarking from a workboat on February 18. A statement in the company’s March newsletter, The Scoop, said everyone at…
Read MoreMowi shinty sponsorship ‘promotes community’
Mowi Scotland has confirmed its renewal as title sponsor of the Camanachd Association, the shinty governing body. The three-year contract marks 34 years since the company began sponsoring the sport. Speaking about the latest contract, Ewan MacColl from Mowi, said: ‘We are delighted to continue our relationship with the Camanachd Association. ‘Shinty is so important…
Read MoreKyle of Lochalsh site of Mowi farm death
A MAN died after falling into the water at a Mowi Scotland site in the Kyle of Lochalsh region, police have confirmed. The workplace incident, reported by Mowi last night, occurred yesterday afternoon, according to Police Scotland. ‘Around 3.50pm on Tuesday, police received a report of a man in the water in the Kyle of…
Read MoreMowi Scotland reports fatality at sea site
A FATALITY has occurred at one of Mowi Scotland’s seawater sites, the company reported last night. ‘A workplace incident resulting in a fatality has occurred at one of our sea sites on 18 February,’ said Mowi Scotland communications director Ian Roberts in a statement. ‘We are all devastated with this news, and our deepest thoughts…
Read MoreCosts and lice dampen Mowi Scotland Q4 performance
ALTHOUGH Mowi Scotland achieved record harvests last year due to smolt stocking, the financial performance was dampened by higher costs and challenging biological issues, the company said today as it published results for the fourth quarter of 2019. As reported last month, Scotland’s Q4 harvest rose by more than 2,000 tonnes to just over 14,000 tonnes. The…
Read MoreMowi Scotland names new management team
Mowi Scotland has named its new management team, following the appointment last month of Meritxell Diez-Padrisa as the company’s new production director. Diez-Padrisa, who was head of fish health, replaces Gideon Pringle, who is joining Scottish Sea Farms as director of farming. Mowi’s farms in Scotland will now be organised into three regions – South,…
Read MoreAngler’s claim ‘20 years out of date\’ says Mowi boss
Mowi Scotland boss Ben Hadfield has dismissed anti-salmon farming claims by an angling lobby group as out of date and said it would be wrong to move salmon farms on to land. Mowi revealed yesterday that it lost 73,600 salmon, with an average weight of 1.9kg, at its high energy site at Colonsay, in the…
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