Reports of the recent escape of some 33,000+ trout from the Dawnfresh-owned fish farm at Loch Etive, which has been covered extensively in the local and national media over the past week, has again highlighted a greater need for transparency in the fish farming industry and in particular, Dawnfresh Farming Ltd. As widely reported, the…
Month: July 2019
310,000 tonnes of wild fish annually will be needed to feed Scottish salmon industry’s ambitions to double in size by 2030
Courtesy: FeedbackGlobal.org The Scottish salmon industry currently uses roughly the same quantity of wild-caught fish to feed its salmon as is purchased by the entire adult population of the UK in one year[i]. And it has plans to grow exponentially, aiming to double in size or more by 2030. A new report by environmental campaign…