Posts Tagged ‘W&J Knox’
Read all about it! Fish Farmer out now
FISH Farmer travelled far and wide to produce our December magazine, from Fort William to India, bringing news of the latest developments in aquaculture. Our cover story this month features Garware Technical Fibres, the truly pioneering Pune based company that supplies – through Kilbirnie’s W&J Knox – the majority of Scottish salmon farms with anti-predator…
Read MoreSend off for William
THE funeral service for William Dowds, who passed away on August 3, is to be held at Kirkcaldy Crematorium on Friday, August 16, at 12.45pm. William, who was 52, was Fish Farmer’s commercial manager for many years and a familiar and popular figure throughout the aquaculture industry. His legion of friends, in Scotland and beyond,…
Read MoreNew farm brings £3m to Scots firms
A NEW salmon farm on Orkney is set to generate more than £3 million of business with Scottish suppliers as well as creating jobs. The Scottish Sea Farms site off Lober Rock in the Scapa Flow, which will be operational this autumn, will see a total infrastructure investment of £3.3 million, over 90 per cent…
Read MorePredator nets help cut seal culling
SCOTTISH Sea Farms has released its seal culling figures for the past year, which show a drop of 31 per cent on 2017, from 16 to 11. The company, which has 45 salmon farms around Scotland’s west coast and islands, has installed Sea Pro anti-predator netting, supplied by W&J Knox, at 21 of its farms…
Read MoreSalmon thrive in lice shield trial
THE introduction of lice shields at a Scottish salmon farm has resulted in a healthy crop that has outperformed all previous years. Scottish Sea Farms installed the preventative measure at its farm at Slocka, Ronas Voe, on Shetland in May 2017. In the nine months since, sea lice levels have remained below the Marine Scotland…
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