Mowi helps create new modern apprenticeship
New course will allow young people to train to become a specialist food processor.
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Creel fishing jobs would be ‘lost forever’ if salmon farm goes ahead
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.
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Fish farms invest more to reverse wild salmon decline
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’
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Watchdog tightening rules on fish farms to protect wild salmon
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
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Campaigners give up on government, urging total ban on net salmon farming
Conservationists call for an end to all open-net salmon farming, ‘given the Scottish Government’s continuing refusal to regulate’
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£15M upgrade to Fort William fish farm facility
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’
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First in Scotland for new fish farm technology as Loch Long submits plans
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
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New group aims to find solution to heal rift between fish farms and fishermen
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.
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Holyrood plans £1.1M study into falling wild salmon
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.
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Mowi cleared by RSPCA over fish welfare concerns
‘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.’