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THE Scottish government is funding a £750,000 project to track the migration of wild salmon smolt on Scotland’s west coast. The measure was revealed last night following a meeting at […] Continue Reading
SCOTTISH salmon farmers have for the first time published catch data for wild wrasse, which are fished in inshore waters and deployed to control sea lice on farms. The Scottish […] Continue Reading
SALMON exports to the US face the renewed threat of tariffs in the ongoing trade dispute between America and Europe. Salmon fillets, along with blended Scotch whisky, have been included […] Continue Reading
THE sensationalist headlines above a new report from a lobbying group called the Changing Markets Foundation ran alarm bells in the Fish Farmer newsroom yesterday. If the organisation’s marketing team […] Continue Reading
FLYING into Kirkwall’s tiny airport you would be hard pressed to imagine anywhere else in the UK where a population of only 26,000, spread across 16 or so inhabited islands, […] Continue Reading
SCOTTISH salmon production fell by 33,682 tonnes, or 17.8 per cent, last year to 156,025 tonnes, with the reduction attributed to fewer fish in the water. But the projected estimate […] Continue Reading
EXPORTS of Scottish farmed salmon for the first six months of this year are up 25 per cent in value on last year’s figures, to £319 million. And according to […] Continue Reading
THE Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation say the country’s fish farms are already subject to emergency inspections. The demand has come in the form of a petition from campaigners with the […] Continue Reading
AQUACULTURE is the only animal sector in the UK where no residues of medicines have been found in the end product for the whole of 2018 and 2019 to date. […] Continue Reading