MARINE HARVEST
30 years of Scottish Aquaculture
P.12, Loch Duich, mid-1980s - the company’s first landing craft.
This page, clockwise from top left: Loch Ailort, early 1970s; smolt transfer using a CalMac car ferry; ice on Loch Ailort (1970s).
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‘I’m now in my 35th year and like you can remember when we first asked the guys to stop using carpets on their killing tables! Since on-farm auditing started in the late eighties with the Scottish salmon
TQM Scheme, the industry has sought to add value to the provenance of their product. They have done this by embracing a range of more complex and so- phisticated audits across a number of UK, European and global aquaculture standards whose compli- ance criteria is certainly comparable and in some cases exceeds those re- quired of other farmed animals.’
- Paul Macintyre, formerly MH, now Operations & Certification Manager, Food Certification International.
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‘There are a few strik- ing things with regards to the changes over the last 30 years. Harvesting has changed out of sight. From the early beginnings of labour intensive harvesting tiny tonnages on carpets with priests to the modern ultra slick wellboat collec- tions and automated stun- ning systems where very
few people are involved. Hand feeding with scoops from buckets has evolved into modern state-of-the- art computerised feeding systems on barges that are fitted out like luxury cruisers with all mod cons. Labour skills have changed over the time from a posi- tion where if you were in the right place at the right
Hand feeding with scoops from buckets has evolved into computerised systems on barges
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