New international role for Landcatch boss

According to the Aberdeen Press & Journal, Neil Manchester, general manager of Argyll and Stirling-based Landcatch, has been appointed as managing director of the newly-formed aquaculture business unit of Dutch multi-species fish breeding company Hendrix Genetics.

Landcatch was taken over by Hendrix in 2011 after being sold by Port Glasgow-based Lithgows – the industrial and shipbuilding company owned by the Lithgow family, which farms at Ormsary Estate, at Lochgilphead.

Mr Manchester became general manager at Landcatch in March 2012. He took up his new post on January 1, 2015.

He will be based at the Hendrix Genetics headquarters in Boxmeer, Netherlands, and will be in charge of Atlantic salmon, coho salmon and trout breeding operations as well as genetics services in Scotland, the Isle of Man, the US and Chile.