Marine Harvest Scotland's New Recirculation Facility: Maximum flexibility, elaborate bio-security and prime location are just three attributes of Marine Harvest's new Scottish facility

摘要

Loch Ailort is well known as the birthplace of fish farming in Scotland with Marine Harvest having a long history in the area with activities stretching back to 1965. It is only fitting then that Inverailort, situated at the head of the loch, has beenpicked as the site for Marine Harvest Scodands new state-of-the-art recirculation facility. However, according to John Richmond the project manager, it is not only history that has influenced the choice. Situated within the centre of Marine Harvest's operations it is ideally placed for supplying parr to the freshwater lochs and smolt to the sea sites and has the critical advantage of being in the same place as an older and much smaller RAS hatchery which the new one replaces. The staff from this facility have all transferred over, supplemented by extra new staff, taking the full time complement up to ten. The experience gained in the old RAS unit with the same raw water supply gives the new project a significant advantage.