Significant changes in Scotland’s marine food web. Scotland’s latest Marine Assessment reveals significant changes are taking place at the heart of the marine food web, with potential for impacts on the wider pelagic environment. For ...
SSA urges governments to act before severe and lasting damage is done to sector. SSA chief executive Jimmy Buchan today urged the UK and Scottish governments to “get a grip” of the seafood exports crisis ...
SFF view on desperately poor Brexit fisheries deal. SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald has today written to the Prime Minister voicing the industry’s anger over the mounting financial losses faced by vessels on top of ...
PM pledges compensation for export hurdles – Statement from Scottish Seafood Association. Responding to the Prime Minister’s comments, Jimmy Buchan, chief executive of the Scottish Seafood Association, said: “We welcome Boris Johnson’s unequivocal promise of ...
NAFC Marine Centre Covid update. The NAFC Marine Centre hopes to be able to resume some face-to-face teaching from the 1st of February, if Shetland remains in COVID Protection Level 3. Until then the Centre ...
Salmon farmer overcomes Covid disruption to safeguard high fish survival. Scottish Sea Farms delivered high fish survival and strong biological performance in 2020 despite the ongoing pandemic, recently released figures show. Over the full year, ...
Seafood export delays – a statement from Scottish Seafood Association. Jimmy Buchan, chief executive of the Scottish Seafood Association, said he was extremely disappointed that just a few days into 2021 his members who export ...
Brexit deal means drop in key fishing stocks for Scotland. The Brexit fisheries deal negotiated by the UK Government will mean a fall in the quantity of key fishing stocks landed by the Scottish fleet, ...
Scottish Salmon on Brexit deal The Brexit deal with the EU will mean increased costs and potential disruption to transport for the UK’s number 1 export industry says the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO). In a week of ...
£18k Christmas ‘lifeline’ for good causes hit by Covid. Community groups and good causes facing uncertainty or hardship because of the coronavirus are to share in a Christmas gift of £18,280 from salmon grower Scottish ...
SFF blast Brexit negotiations. Elspeth Macdonald, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, said: “Amid all the rumours and speculation, we have been clear from the outset that the industry only seeks the same sorts ...
Scots Govt disputes claims about Environmental Health Officer shortfall. References to a Scottish ‘shortfall’ in Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) available to sign Export Health Certificates (EHC) for exports, including seafood, to the EU with regards ...
Scottish Government calls for Brexit seafood red-tape derogation New Brexit-related administrative burdens on Scotland’s fish and animal product exporters are being tackled through a programme of action led by the Scottish Government and Food Standards ...
Scots Fisheries Minister calls for Brexit support funding clarity Scottish Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing has called on the UK Government to urgently clarify how it will provide the multi-year industry support funding previously supplied by ...
A Better Future for us All – A major new blueprint setting out a long-term vision for Scotland’s successful farmed salmon sector is published today (10.11.20). Green jobs and sustainable operations underpin this ground-breaking new ...
A Meeting of Minds An online event to celebrate Scotland’s aquaculture sector ‘A Meeting of Minds’ will be staged on Zoom on Thursday 26 November 2020 from 10:30 to 12:00. Lochaber Chamber of Commerce, in ...
No evidence for alleged ‘benefits’ of three mile limit. There is no evidence that a three mile limit around Scotland’s coastline banning fishing vessels with mobile gear would improve sustainability or raise earnings in the ...
Scottish Salmon Company named Great Taste 2020 winner. The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), a leading producer of the finest quality Scottish salmon, has won a Great Taste award for its Native Hebridean Smoked Salmon. Native ...
Grieg Seafood to end operations on Skye. Grieg Seafood will end operations on its five farms on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, due to the long distance between Skye and its main operations on ...
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