Mowi helps create new modern apprenticeship
New course will allow young people to train to become a specialist food processor.
New course will allow young people to train to become a specialist food processor.
Mull Community Councillors have been warned that a proposal by the Scottish Salmon Company to set up a new farm at Little Colonsay would also cost each of the four local creel boats that fish there about £10,000 each a year.
Scotland’s salmon farmers are investing a further £120,000 this year to help support’ a sustainable future for wild salmon and sea trout in Scottish rivers’
Protecting Scotland’s wild Atlantic salmon is a ‘national priority’, says Scotland’s environmental watchdog SEPA, launching a consultation on wild salmon protection zones and a sea lice exposure threshold
Conservationists call for an end to all open-net salmon farming, ‘given the Scottish Government’s continuing refusal to regulate’
Highland Council has granted Mowi permission for a £15M upgrade to its Blar Mhor plant, transforming it into ‘one of the most efficient and highest capacity fish processing facilities in the world’
Loch Long Salmon has submitted a planning application to develop Scotland’s first semi-closed fish farm at Loch Long near Beinn Reithe in Argyll
With aquaculture set to double in size by 2030, a new West Coast body hopes to bridge the rift between fish farmer and fishermen competing for marine resources.
Numbers of wild Atlantic salmon returning to Scotland have declined over the last four decades by around 40%. A new £500k study will investigate possible causes such as pollution and climate change.
‘We were pleased to once again be given assurance by third-party and professional organisations that we are meeting the high expectations for animal welfare.’