2020 vision:Explaining the thinking behind SSPD's Vision paper

摘要

It started in a nondescript conference room deep within an Edinburgh hotel, just over a year ago. Fish farmers, managers in the supply chain, vets, engineers, company bosses: all were divided up between tables and told to come up with ideas. The aim was simple - they were there to create a vision for Scotland's farmed salmon sector.Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the first commercial harvest of salmon in Scotland. All those present at our first meeting in Edinburgh last year were asked to stand on the shoulders of those early pioneers and come up with something equally visionary to take us forward into the future.The next stage in this process was, if anything, more important. This was another conference room get-together but this time it was not the managing directors and chief executives holding sway. It was a meeting of the young people in Scottish salmon farming. These are the individuals who will be there in 20, 30 years' time. They are the ones who will not only have to live, work and implement the vision, but justify it to their children and grand-children, and to themselves.