Land ho! An increasing amount of investment is going into the creation of fish farms on land

摘要

The first salmon to be raised in Scottish Sea Farms' smolt hatchery at Barcaldine, on the west coast of Scotland, were harvested in November last year at the company's Loch Nevis C farm. It was a major milestone for Scottish Sea Farms (SSF), which hadinvested ￡58m in the Barcaldine site. The hatchery has the capacity to produce as many as 10 million smolts annually, and crucially, it means they can be kept for longer before being transferred to cages at sea.For the first generation of smolts which transferred from Barcaldine in December 2019, this means they had reached an average weight of 160g on transfer, more than double the typical weight of smolts that are produced traditionally.