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The annual Scottish fish farming conference, originally held in Oban, had been moved to Eden Court Theatre, in Inverness, to allow for more delegates and trade stands. However, with the event fast approaching, concern was being expressed that the new venue would prove too small. Indeed, despite the fact that the conference was taking place in the High- lands, in February, many of the key organisa- tions had only been allocated space in overspill marquees.
While part of this saga was encouraging – the fact that the industry was attracting so many delegates (630 attended) – it also drew some stinging criticism from Fish Farmer’s editor. ‘Why,’ he asks, ‘does our industry so consist-
Another World Cup and an- other early exit for the boys in blue, although Scotland’s suf- fering was noth- ing compared to England’s, after El Diego’s virtuo- so performance in the quarter finals – combin- ing the sublime with the ridicu- lous to notch up a 2 –1 win. Meanwhile, even less cheery news came blowing in the wind from our comrades behind the Iron Curtain, in the unwelcome form of the Chernobyl disaster.
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underplay its hand? No country is stronger in aquacultural science, sales and production are buoyant, yet our international image is pallid when compared with the exhibitions and displays of rival countries’. While the regular exhibition, now held in Aviemore, may have improved, the industry is still criticised for poor communication with the public and the press.
Salmon surge through
Billingsgate
In a bid to boost Oyster sales, pioneer gigas producer John- nie Noble set up a wheelbar- row loaded with his own Loch Fyne oysters outside the Sher- aton Park Hotel in London. To enhance the exclusive appeal of his molluscs he teamed up with Lanson champagne and, at £4.75 for a half-dozen oysters and a glass of Lanson Black Label, business was reputedly brisk.
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Despite his prediction that salmon would remain a fish only favoured by the section of the market who owned fish kettles, Fish Farmer contribu- tor Gerald Watkin was forced to take back his prediction. Indeed the nation’s appetite for the fish, once restricted by supplies of wild-caught salmon, now seemed to be verging on the insatiable. For, by the middle of this year, ‘in Billingsgate the same amount of salmon is now being sold every week as used to be sold in those two bonanza weeks at the height of the grilse run’. And, with farmed fish caus- ing the price of wild stocks to nosedive, he also predicted that ‘the coastal netsmen and riparian owners are going to be under new pressures. The former will demand more catching time and the latter will not be able to let their fishing boats at the same astronomical prices on the promise that “the first 10- pounder will pay the rent”.’ Sadly for the angler, another of Watkin’s predictions has proved somewhat wide of the mark!
Division over vision of cages
In an illustration of how some things don’t change, as dele- gates prepared for the annual salmon farming jamboree in Inverness, the Scottish Scenic Trust launched a campaign against what it saw as the un- controlled development of the industry. Writing to the Prime Minister, the Trust argued that planning permission, not just a license from the Crown Estate Commissioners, should be required before any further sites were established. However, Fish Farmer ob- served that ‘it is satisfying to note that Lord Gray, Minister of State at the Scottish office, saw no need for a moratori- um, but preferred to support a fish farming industry just now getting on its feet’.
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