MARINE HARVEST
To expand our future output Marine Harvest Scotland will see a move to more exposed locations
30 years of Scottish Aquaculture
REFLECTIONS ON CHANGE – Long serving staff look back
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generally, harvesting methods will continue to develop with primary processing taking place on specialised vessels at sea. Feed is sent direct to the sea farm using delivery boats that fill up feed barges. The on-board computerised feed systems with camera monitoring on these barges ensure feed is well pre- sented to the fish, unlike in the past when it was your call as to whether the fish had fed enough. To expand our future output Marine Harvest Scotland will see a move to more exposed locations, particularly within the area of the Minch, where site monitoring work is well underway. Most likely engineering developments from the oil industry will have an influence on installations in even more exposed loca- tions.
Meanwhile, improved vaccines and fish health care will develop with the increasing dependence on aquaculture as a global food supply.
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‘Many old hands will, as I have, seen many changes over the last 30 years, I started working for Ma- rine Harvest in 1985, on site we had 32 x 8m x 6m wood and polystyrene pens with nets 3m deep. each pen would typically contain around 10 tonnes of harvest fish, feeding equipment was bucket and scoop, grading was state of the art Y tables and hand nets, a large harvest was 2.5 tonnes (I remember well my manager at that time suggesting a 5 tonne harvest was in the offing! Horror, shock, how would we manage!).
‘Compared to today’s salmon farming yester- year is well gone from my perspective, staff today are more likely to ask for computer training than anything else. In fact all aspects of our jobs have
vastly changed and one of the highlights for me over the last 10 years or so is the positive way we deal with public relations. ‘Where will we be in another 30 years? Who knows, but if the progress seen over our first 30 years is replicated then for sure it’ll be something special.’
- Ronnie Hawkins, Farm Man- ager, Loch Leven
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