Charles launches ‘missing salmon’ campaign

THE Prince of Wales addressed the launch this week of a campaign to try to halt the decline of wild salmon stocks, which are described as being in ‘crisis’. Figures for salmon returning to UK spawning grounds have fallen so low that conservationists fear wild Atlantic salmon could be lost from many rivers over the…

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Ace pair put Prince in the picture at Palace

PRINCE Charles learnt about welfare improvements on fish farms when Dundee based business Ace Aquatec paid a visit to Buckingham Palace yesterday. The aquaculture technology company won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, its second in two years, for developing a humane electric stunner. Ace’s head of sales and marketing, Mike Forbes, went to…

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£1m project aims to save wild salmon

A PROJECT aimed at trying to halt the decline in wild salmon stocks was launched this morning on the River Garry in the Scottish Highlands. The Missing Salmon Project will track scores of fish in an attempt to uncover what has caused populations to drop by 70 per cent in the past 25 years. And…

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