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30 years of Scottish Aquaculture 1980
1978
This was the year that ‘Ally’s Tartan Army’ was go- ing to help Scot- land’s finest win the World Cup in Argentina. De- spite the brilliance of Archie Gem- mel’s goal, which helped Scotland on their way to a 3-2 victory over one of the great- est Dutch sides ever assembled, Scotland man- aged to slip, stum- ble and fall on two of the least likely banana skins ever – losing to Peru and drawing with lowly Iran.
At least they got to the finals, I hear you say!
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Rock, roll and wonder goals Catfish Rising
Aquaculture has attracted its fair share of characters over the years. The Who’s hirsute frontman Roger Daltry was an early trout farmer, for example while perhaps the most flamboyant to have expressed an interest in the salmon industry, was Ian Anderson, by now a Skye landowner, but who was better known for his musical skills as the singer for Jethro Tull. Anderson, who owned the 15,000-acre Strathaird Estate at the time, began to investigate the pos- sibility of setting up a farm in Loch Slapin in August. According to Ian Mackinnon, manager of the bearded singer and flautist’s estate, ‘by running our own unit, we hope to be able, in about five years time, to offer advice and facilities to local crofters and others in the commu- nity who want to try fish farming. It may be possible,’ Mackinnon continued, ‘for local people to put one of their own cages into Loch Slapin alongside our develop- ment. We will have taken the risks and costs of checking and developing the site, and they will be able to share in these benefits.’ While Anderson did go on to create a salmon farm it didn’t last as long as his band, however, which is still touring to this day. Whether the venture had any influence on his album ‘Catfish Rising’ is unknown.
Gutting edge
While in the new millenium trout processing plants are almost entirely automated, back in the ’70s processing output generally depended on the sharpness of workers’ knives. However, in 1978, a new contraption hit the trout farming market.
Hailed by Fish Farmer as a ‘combine harvester for trout farmers’, the machine – designed and built by Moray Wallace, of Glendevon Trout
Cautious start for Shetland
Shetland might now be one of the densest ar- eas of aquaculture production in the UK, but it was still lagging behind at this stage. However, thanks to Udal Law, the Norse legal system that the islands are still controlled by (a legacy of the fact they only became part of Scotland in the fifteenth century) landowners rights stretch to the low tide mark, not the high tide mark as is the case in the rest of Britain. The second, and perhaps more important, factor is the passing of a county council act in 1974, which gave the islands’ council greater control over marine and shore developments. These perceived advantages and the growth of the industry elsewhere finally persuaded the islanders to try their hand at aquaculture once more. Shetland Islands’ Council (SIC)
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development assistant Charlie Simpson noting the the past failure of a Shetland rainbow trout unit said: ‘People still remember that failure and we have to overcome that image first.’ As a result 1978 saw cautious research projects undertaken to investigate the potential of on- growing oysters, mussels and rainbow trout. The rest, as we now know, is history.
Farm in Central Scotland – was capable of cutting, gut- ting and cleaning 600 trout an hour under the supervi- sion of one operator. What was more, the machine was mobile, allowing to be taken to isolated farms thus saving the expense of live transport to processing plants or its alternative – killing the fish on site and keeping them fresh. The price for the first genera- tion machines was £3000.
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