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Mowi sales chief to give MSPs expert view on export issues

Mowi sales chief to give MSPs expert view on export issues

Georgina Wright, head of sales for salmon farmer Mowi UK, will be part of an expert panel who will the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity (REC) Committee about the impact of post-Brexit requirements on Scottish exports and supply chains this evening.

Scotland: Weekly lice reporting to be mandatory

Scotland: Weekly lice reporting to be mandatory

The weekly reporting of sea lice numbers at Scottish salmon farms will become mandatory from March next year.

Time for MSPs to get firmly behind fish farming

Time for MSPs to get firmly behind fish farming

MSPs put fish farming back under the microscope

MSPs put fish farming back under the microscope

Fish escapes and mortalities, sea lice, use of wrasse as cleaner fish and transparency of reporting are all expected to feature when MSPs again turn their attention towards salmon farming tomorrow.

Hadfield criticises impact of ‘conjecture and speculation’ on salmon inquiries

Hadfield criticises impact of ‘conjecture and speculation’ on salmon inquiries

Mowi Scotland managing director Ben Hadfield has reiterated his dissatisfaction with the way last year’s Scottish Parliament inquiries into salmon farming were conducted.

Monitoring plan added to fish farm requirements

Monitoring plan added to fish farm requirements

The Scottish Government is to introduce environmental monitoring plans as a condition of consents for salmon farms.

Five ways aquaculture is innovating its way to sustainable growth

Five ways aquaculture is innovating its way to sustainable growth

Last week’s report on salmon farming by the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity committee demanded change to solve industry problems. Here Heather Jones, chief executive of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, outlines some of the work already being done.

Scottish salmon farmers must raise the bar say MSPs

Scottish salmon farmers must raise the bar say MSPs

MSPs who carried out an inquiry into the future of Scottish salmon farming have called for urgent action to improve and enhance the regulation of the industry but have rejected calls for a moratorium on expansion.

Salmon inquiry ‘will call for tougher regulations’

Salmon inquiry ‘will call for tougher regulations’

A Scottish Parliamentary inquiry into the future of salmon farming will call for extensive changes to its complex regulatory regime, according to a report in yesterday’s Sunday Post.

RSPCA dismay at Holyrood salmon inquiries snub

RSPCA dismay at Holyrood salmon inquiries snub

Animal welfare experts have expressed disappointment after they were denied the opportunity to appear as witnesses at two Scottish Parliamentary inquiries into salmon farming.

Keep rules tight but streamline the system, say fish farmers

Keep rules tight but streamline the system, say fish farmers

Scotland’s salmon farmers want to keep the tough regulations governing the industry because they add to the special reputation – and higher price – their fish have in the global market.