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Salmon farmer invests £2m in Shetland upgrade. Scottish Sea Farms is investing nearly £2 million to upgrade and improve its Shetland farm infrastructure, and better equip its farm team to achieve their ambitions of enhanced ...
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 ...
New man at the helm of SFA It’s all change at the top of Shetland Fishermen’s Association, with Leslie Tait standing down as Chair after 13 years. His successor is Alison Kay skipper James Anderson, ...
Half of fish in local waters landed by EU vessels. More than half of the fish and shellfish caught in Shetland waters is landed by EU fishing boats, while the local fleet gets less than ...
Promising results from Shetland fish survey. The 2020 survey of nearshore waters around Shetland reports record catches of whiting and haddock. That is amongst the findings of the latest survey of fish stocks in Shetland’s ...
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 ...
Scottish Sea Farms picks local talent for top roles. Scottish Sea Farms has promoted two senior staff to new area manager roles following the recent restructuring of its Northern Isles farming region. Robbie Coutts has ...
NAFC Charts a Course for Shellfish Producers – Work carried out by the NAFC Marine Centre UHI has identified the expansion of knowledge of the marine environment to drive improvements in sustainable cultivation practices as ...
Expanding KOSMOS success. Following the current market situation and the need for (further) digitisation of their fish auctions, Shetland Seafood Auctions (Lerwick) and W. Stevenson & Sons (Newlyn) are next to fully engage in the ...
EU vessels landing even more fish from UK waters. EU fishing vessels have been increasing the amount of fish they catch in UK waters at a much faster rate than the UK’s own boats. Analysis ...
Graham Smith to leave Scottish Sea Farms for role closer to home. Scottish Sea Farms’ long-standing Regional Production Manager for Shetland, Graham Smith, has announced he is leaving the company to seek a new role ...
Major milestone for Scottish Sea Farms’ new hatchery as first smolts go safely out to sea pens. Scottish Sea Farms’ new £55m Barcaldine Hatchery has achieved a critical milestone with the first smolts having gone ...
2018 a record year for Shetland whitefish landings in Shetland with just under 25,000 tonnes of cod, haddock, plaice, monks and other whitefish species, worth some £50 million, landed in the islands, the highest ever ...
Shetland Unites for Graduation. Students and prize winners were honoured for their academic achievements and dedication today (Wednesday 14 August) when Shetland College UHI and NAFC Marine Centre UHI, part of the University of the ...
Innovative new aquaculture course from NAFC Marine Centre. An innovative new course being launched online by the NAFC Marine Centre UHI in Shetland will allow students from anywhere in the world to obtain a qualification ...
Skippers call for tougher controls on gill net and longline fishing amid mounting concern over plastic pollution. Fishing skippers in Shetland are demanding urgent action on gill net and longline fishing by overseas vessels because ...
Value added benefits at new Lerwick fish market. The latest major investment by Lerwick Port Authority in the Shetland fishing industry is facilitating third parties in the sector to upgrade their own operations. The Authority’s ...
New skips for marine litter scheme. New dedicated Fishing for Litter skips have been installed at Lerwick and Scalloway harbours to mark 15 years of the highly successful project. To raise awareness of the voluntary ...
NAFC fish welfare course goes global. Online learning is enabling the NAFC Marine Centre UHI in Shetland to deliver its Fish Welfare training course to a global market, with students from Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, ...
Shetland Fisherman up for Young Fisherman of the Year Award at National Fishing News Awards. Lerwick based fisherman, Ross Sutherland (18) has been recognised in the shortlist for a national fishing award for his knowledge ...
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