Ocean Matters hits two million lumpfish milestone

Mowi owned cleaner fish producer Ocean Matters harvested 2,000,000 lumpfish in 2019, a new milestone for the company and a UK record. The Anglesey based firm, acquired by Mowi last year, was set up in 2015 on the site of an old turbot farm and harvested its first lumpfish in 2016. In 2017, Mowi bought…

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Mowi\’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’…

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Mowi\’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’…

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Mowi buys Anglesey lumpfish farm

THE Welsh lumpfish farmer, Ocean Matters, has been bought by Mowi Scotland, effective from April 15, the company confirmed today. The facility, in Penmon, Anglesey, North Wales, has the capacity to produce two million of the cleaner fish, which it has been supplying to the salmon farming industry in Scotland to control sea lice. Its…

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Lumpfish farmer plans £1m expansion

ANGLESEY based lumpfish producer Ocean Matters is planning to expand after securing £1 million finance from the Development Bank of Wales and HSBC, Wales Online reported yesterday. The farmer, located in Penmon, said it would be able to double its current lumpfish production capacity from two million to four million in an effort to meet…

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