Posts Tagged ‘Mowi Scotland’
Welfare assured as RSPCA scheme marks 25 years
THE RSPCA’s food label scheme is recognised by more than half of shoppers, the charity revealed as it marked its 25th anniversary. RSPCA Assured has achieved 58 per cent recognition among its target market of young professionals and families four years after it was re-branded from Freedom Food. This is more than two and a…
Read MoreMowi to move Loch Ewe biomass to \’unique\’ Scalpay site
SCOTLAND’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, has confirmed it will close its Loch Ewe site at the end of the current production cycle, and relocate the biomass to a new high energy farm near Scalpay. The new farm will combine salmon farming with the rearing of other marine species, and could also become a visitor attraction,…
Read MoreMowi to move Loch Ewe biomass to \’unique\’ Scalpay site
SCOTLAND’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, has confirmed it will close its Loch Ewe site at the end of the current production cycle, and relocate the biomass to a new high energy farm near Scalpay. The new farm will combine salmon farming with the rearing of other marine species, and could also become a visitor attraction,…
Read MoreMowi\’s new lumpfish site delivers to Faroes
MOWI Scotland has delivered lumpfish to its sister company in the Faroe Islands for the first, after buying the cleaner fish company Ocean Matters earlier this year. The fish made their five-day journey to the Oyndarfjordur site, it was reported in The Scoop, Mowi’s monthly newsletter, published today. ‘This was the first ‘proof of concept’…
Read MoreMowi\’s new lumpfish site delivers to Faroes
MOWI Scotland has delivered lumpfish to its sister company in the Faroe Islands for the first, after buying the cleaner fish company Ocean Matters earlier this year. The fish made their five-day journey to the Oyndarfjordur site, it was reported in The Scoop, Mowi’s monthly newsletter, published today. ‘This was the first ‘proof of concept’…
Read More‘Don’t underestimate importance of salmon farming’
SCOTLAND should never underestimate the importance of the salmon farming industry to rural areas, said MP Ian Blackford, the leader of the SNP in Westminster, as he opened new pier facilities at Mowi’s Kyleakin feed plant on Skye this morning. The newly refurbished and extended pier means both ingredients and the final feed product can…
Read MoreBBC’s Humphrys ‘swam under salmon cage’
BBC Today show host John Humphrys has revealed that he once swam beneath a salmon cage to inspect fish waste. During an interview with Mowi Scotland director of communications Ian Roberts this morning, the veteran broadcaster made clear his opposition to salmon farming. Quizzing Roberts about Mowi’s proposal to build a ‘huge’ farm off the…
Read MoreMowi uses ‘Gannet’ to process salmon at sea
PROCESSING salmon at sea could address the potential crisis of delayed cross Channel freight deliveries in the wake of a no deal Brexit. The new Norwegian processing ship Norwegian Gannet has made its first trip to Scotland, picking up 594 tonnes of salmon from Mowi’s Portnalong site on Skye. According to a report today by…
Read MoreScotland gives Mowi huge Q2 boost
THE world’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, is reporting significantly increased harvest volumes from its Scottish salmon farms, according to its 2019 second quarter trading update, published yesterday. The output from its Farming Scotland division between April and June has totalled 16,000 tonnes, compared with 9,000 tonnes this time a year ago – a rise of…
Read MoreMowi expects to move sites within two years
PLANS by Mowi Scotland to relocate two of its inshore farms to offshore sites could happen within two years, the company’s managing director, Ben Hadfield, told BBC Radio Scotland this morning. The proposals, announced by Mowi last week, to move the sites at Loch Ewe and Loch Duich were driven by the need to produce…
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