Troubled fish farm company fined

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the Lighthouse Caledonia pled guilty at Dingwall Sheriff Court on Thursday to spilling fuel. The fuel had leaked through a protective embankment into a burn running into Loch Kishorn in the Highlands. The firm also announced on Thursday that it is to shut its Lewis fish processing plant. The factory at Marybank, on the outskirts of Stornoway, will close by the end of the year with the loss of 130 jobs, which will be a devastating blow to the area. Sepa said that when the pollution incident occurred in March 2007, the company operating the site was called Pan Fish Scotland, but it later changed its name to Lighthouse Caledonia.