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‘Lice under control’ Mowi tells wild sector
SCOTLAND’S leading salmon farmer, Mowi, has ‘full control’ of sea lice on its farms, the company’s farming operations director, Gideon Pringle, told wild fisheries managers today. Speaking at the annual Fisheries Management Scotland conference in Edinburgh, Pringle explained how a change in strategy, a new team, new thinking, new methods and new resources had reduced…
Read MoreGrieg back in SSPO fold
ALL Scotland’s salmon farmers are now represented by the industry body following the re-admittance of Grieg Seafood Shetland, it was announced today. In a letter to Rural Economy minister Fergus Ewing, the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) confirmed that the company, which was expelled from the SSPO in 2014 following a dispute over smolt imports,…
Read MoreFishupdate Briefing Friday February 1st
TURNING FISH WASTE INTO PROFIT A ‘Fish Waste for Profit’ conference is to run alongside the IceFish Exhibition in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik for the first time. Estimates reveal that 43 per cent of fish and shellfish resources end up as wastage, which represents a significant amount of potential profit that could be generated…
Read MoreFishupdate briefing Friday December 7th
COD MAY HELP PEOPLE WITH KIDNEY PROBLEMS RESEARCHERS at the University of Bergen in Norway believe that eating cod can help people with obesity related kidney or renal problems. They have recently carried out a study using overweight rats who were fed a quarter of their protein using cod over a period of four weeks.…
Read MoreFishUpdate Briefing Friday October 5th
WATCHING FISH MAY “CALM NERVES” CAN a cod keep you calm? Scientists at The Deep in Hull are trying to prove if watching fish, turtles and sharks is beneficial for our health. Experts from York and Exeter universities have been carrying out the experiment on visitors to the giant aquarium. Volunteers wear headsets, which track…
Read MoreNorwegian salmon exports stall
EXPORTS of Norwegian salmon stalled slightly last month, but for the year so far they are still well up in both volume and value. Sales during September totalled 88,200 tonnes and were worth NOK 5.7 billion, down eight per cent in volume terms but with the value at the same level as September 2017. The…
Read MoreFishUpdate Briefing Friday September 28th
CANNABIS’ LOBSTER TAKEN OFF MENU A US restaurant which found itself in the world spotlight last week over its practice of sedating its lobsters with marijuana to dull the pain of being boiled alive has now suspended the practice following official intervention. The authorities in Maine have said they are investigating Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound…
Read MoreEdinburgh Salmon Co faces closure threat
A MAJOR question mark hangs over the future of the Edinburgh Salmon Company (also known as ESCo) and with it the jobs of around 250 people after its parent owners announced that it was considering a sale or the possible closure of the business. A press release from its owner Europeenne de la Mer, a…
Read MoreNegative image affecting seafood recruitment – survey
THE negative perception of working in the seafood processing industry is one of the main barriers to recruiting enough British staff, company chiefs have said. Their comments are contained in the latest comprehensive Seafish quarterly update on the labour situation, first launched late last year in the light of Brexit. The result is that, for a…
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