SSPO seeks new chair in ‘period of change’
THE Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation is recruiting for a new chairman to ‘help drive the SSPO agenda forward and to bring rigour and focus to the board’. The successful candidate […] Continue Reading
Read all about it! June Fish Farmer out now
SALMON boss Craig Anderson agreed to be interviewed for the latest issue of Fish Farmer, which is now available online. The CEO of the Scottish Salmon Company discusses plans for […] Continue Reading
Scottish salmon UK’s top food export again
SCOTTISH farmed salmon has reclaimed its spot as the UK’s largest food export, after sales to overseas buyers totalled £206.5 million in the first quarter of 2019. Volumes for Q1 […] Continue Reading
£2bn value of Scottish salmon
SCOTLAND’S farmed salmon sector is worth nearly £2 billion to the country’s economy and it supports several thousand jobs, according to new figures released today. The industry’s turnover last year […] Continue Reading
Farmers slash medicine spend in lice fight
SCOTTISH salmon farmers have dramatically reduced their use of medicines to treat sea lice, with spending dropping 47 per cent, from £18.4 million to £9.7 million, over the past three […] Continue Reading
Salmon farmers raise Brexit fears
SCOTTISH salmon farmers have expressed concern over the latest parliamentary impasse on Brexit, with fears focused in particular on the linking of seafood exports to fishing quotas in any future […] Continue Reading
Lowest lice figures since records began
SEA lice numbers recorded at Scottish salmon farms in September were the lowest for that month in five years, and overall numbers for 2018 were the lowest since reporting began […] Continue Reading
Third of salmon farming staff under 30
A THIRD of the workforce in Scotland’s salmon farming sector are under the age of 30, according to a new report published today by the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO). […] Continue Reading
REC report: a charter for growth?
URGENT action is needed to improve the regulation of the Scottish salmon farming industry and to address fish health and environmental challenges, the long awaited Scottish parliamentary report into the […] Continue Reading