Posts Tagged ‘Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC)’
Cooke’s recipe for offshore success
SCOTLAND’S rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, learnt about advances being made in offshore salmon farming during a recent trip to Orkney. The minister visited Cooke Aquaculture’s Kirkwall base to hear about progress at the company’s new, high energy site at East Skelwick in Westray. Granted planning permission last summer, the farm is 2.5km offshore, and…
Read MoreQueen’s Award for Scottish Ace
DUNDEE based company Ace Aquatec has received a prestigious Queen\’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category, it was announced today. The company’s managing director, Nathan Pyne-Carter (pictured), said the award is specifically for growth and innovation in seal deterrent systems, recognising significant investment in research and development, and benefits to the aquaculture industry from…
Read More‘Ripple effect’ of £17.9m aquaculture investment
THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has facilitated 16 collaborative projects with a combined investment of £17.9 million since it was set up in 2014. This amounts to £3.60 generated for every £1 of public money, said SAIC CEO Heather Jones, unveiling the organisation’s progress report – Innovation and the Ripple Effect. SAIC’s role, she…
Read MoreNew SAIC chair will be ‘great asset’
THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced that David Gregory will be its new chairman. He takes up his post on March 1, and replaces Jack Perry. Gregory brings more than four decades’ experience in the food chain, from agriculture to aquaculture, fisheries to food production, and retail to food service. He has also had close…
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