Just as holidaymakers are packing for a summer outing to Scotland’s warming waters and beautiful sunny beaches, the country’s salmon farmers are preparing their fish farms for the challenges that summer conditions bring. Despite sea temperatures in the UK rising more than a degree over the past decade, Scottish waters still remain optimal for salmon
Mowi is proud to be an important part of Scotland’s seafood heritage, raising premium salmon to supply a growing demand for over 50 years. The key to this success is to build on the best qualities of each salmon generation. Therefore, Mowi is planning to invest in a bespoke broodstock and egg facility in Scotland.
Congratulations to our two recently promoted farm managers on Skye, Sarah MacDonald and Darren Wilson. Sarah is now managing the farm at Scalpay and Darren is based at Greshornish. Their stories are great examples of the career paths available here at Mowi, with both Sarah and Darren joining as farm technicians and working their way
A team of ten at Loch Lochy has been working around the clock recently and is often on the go before 5am loading up to 21 lorries a day to transfer out smolts to our sea farms at Maclean’s Nose, Camus, Greshornish and Gorsten. Sandy MacKinnon, Farm Manager at Loch Lochy, provides an insight into
Tony Boyd and Joshua Holder from Benchmark Animal Health with Dougie Hunter Mowi is pleased to be involved in a trial supported by the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture and the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), which will test the efficacy of CleanTreat in removing traces of medicine used to treat sea lice from
Visit to Valøyan site to view harvest operations Last month, Mowi Scotland’s David Gray and Ronan Taylor from the Caol Mor farm on Skye visited farms at Valøyan, Tennøya, Mannbruholmen and Grøttingsøy in Norway to get operational training on the use of 160m and 200m pens. Norway has been using 160m pens since the early
Mowi’s production of ballan wrasse that aid in natural sea lice control has exceeded expectations. Wrasse and lumpfish – also referred to collectively as “cleaner fish” – are effective “pickers” that help keep larger fish like salmon clean of tiny external parasites. Mowi Scotland’s cleaner fish are raised in recirculating aquaculture facilities across the UK
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