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Loch Duart is a small, independent Scottish salmon farming company. It is headquartered in Scourie, Sutherland in north-west Scotland and has just over 100 employees. The company owns and operates eight sea sites and two hatcheries in Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides.
The company's primary interest is fish farming, primarily salmon, the operations of which are focused on Norway, Scotland, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Ireland and Chile. The group has a share of 25 to 30% of the global salmon and trout market, [4] [5] making it the world's largest company in the sector.
Salmon farming is significant in Chile, Norway, Scotland, Canada and the Faroe Islands; it is the source for most salmon consumed in the United States and Europe. Atlantic salmon are also, in very small volumes, farmed in Russia and Tasmania, Australia.
The biggest private company of the Faroe Islands is the salmon farming company Bakkafrost, which is the largest of the four salmon farming companies in the Faroe Islands [118] and the third biggest in the world. [119] Klaksvík, on the island of Borðoy, is the Faroe Islands' second-largest town.
The crew on Riley Starks’ reef net fishing boat off Lummi Island pulled in about a dozen salmon in one catch, pulling about 75 fish total on Sept. 14, 2023. It’s a slow day. In a good year ...
The first ten years they worked with herring, but in 1979 they started to work with salmon farming. [3] In 2009, Bakkafrost produced 30.650 ton gutted weight. They had 14 licenses in 13 fjords in the Faroe Islands and owned 44% of all fish farming licenses in the Faroe Islands, mainly in the central and northeastern part of the islands.
Commercial fishermen targeting wild salmon frequently catch escaped farm salmon. At one stage, in the Faroe Islands, 20 to 40 percent of all fish caught were escaped farm salmon. [68] In 2017, about 263,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon escaped from a net in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. [69]
Faroe Islands Greenland Russian Federation Iceland; Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland) After withdrawing from NASCO in 2009, Iceland rejoined the fight to restore North Atlantic salmon in March 2023. [3] Former participants: Finland(1984–1995) Sweden(1984–1995)