Robert Outram

Edinburgh, London

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Marine Editor at Wyvex Media

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Loch Duart goes it alone with welfare standard

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Loch Duart goes it alone with welfare standardNews08 May 2025by Robert Outram‘Loch Duart Standard’ builds on businesses’ industry leading transparency, company says. Please register for FREE to continue reading Fish Farmer Your FREE registration gives you access to all our content: news and feature articles, regular and special guest columnists, Fish Farmer Magazine e-editions, yearbooks, archives, videos and more.
Ministers welcome Scottish Ocean Cluster progress

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

(From left) Daniel Zeichner, Donna Fordyce and Mairi Gougeon at Seafood Expo Global 2025 The Cluster is an initiative of Seafood Scotland, which announced the milestone at Seafood Expo Global, the world’s biggest trade event for the sector, which is taking place in Barcelona this week. The Ocean Cluster aims to drive up to three times more value from existing marine resources through innovative biotech applications, new product development, and zero-waste practices.
Fresh thinking: Land-based farming case study

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

The company, based in Skåne in the south of Sweden, has just raised 50m Swedish kroner (£3.8m) in its Series A funding round. The latest investment was led by Hatch Blue’s Blue Revolution Fund and Industrifonden, a Swedish venture capital fund focused on projects with a positive environmental impact. Novax and LRF Ventures, previously the largest current external investors in Gårdsfisk, also supported the latest round. What did they see in this aquaculture company?
Salmon with ants wins Innovation prize in Barcelona

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Seafood Excellence Global Awards winners 2025 A first-ever for the competition, Vičiūnai’s product offers what the judges called “...a bold twist on the popular gourmet smoked salmon… the [edible, black] ants provide a striking appearance and notable crunch when contrasted with the rich, buttery texture of the salmon, creating a new option for the adventurous eater.” At the awards, announced on the first day of Seafood Expo Global, Vičiūnai was one of the big winners, along with Kalaneuvos Oy...
Marel enters salmon gutting market with Bakkafrost contract

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Marel and Bakkafrost teams at SPG Barcelona 2025 The agreement, announced at Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, represents Marel’s first foray into the salmon gutting market. Andrias Petersen, Group Harvest Director at Bakkafrost, and Skúli Sigurðsson, VP of Fish at JBT Marel, signed a contract for the purchase of the first Evi. The two companies had collaborated on the Evi prototype, including on-site development and testing at Bakkafrost’s facilities in the Faroe Islands.
Algae experts issue biobanking call to protect seaweeds from climate change

1 week ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Rachel Saxon, Administrator, CCAP (photo: SAMS) Their report, published in the European Journal of Phycology, calls for a European biobanking strategy to preserve seaweed genetic diversity against a backdrop of rapid species loss. This would include the formation of a European Board of Macroalgal Genetic Resources to link existing biobanks and create a centralised digital databank of existing biological resources from across the continent.
Way opened for offshore fish farms in Scottish waters

2 weeks ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

In its consultation on offshore planning, the Scottish Government set out proposals to allow planning applications for developments between three and 12 nautical miles to be dealt with by local authorities, in the same way that inshore sites are already treated. Out of 53 responses to the consultation, which closed in December last year, 40 were in favour, 11 disagreed and two did not express a preference.
Loch Duart launches its own smoked salmon range

2 weeks ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Loch Duart Signature Smoke The Loch Duart Signature Smoke is traditionally cured and smoked over oak shavings, providing a subtle smokiness that, the compnay says, pairs perfectly with the rich, savoury taste of the salmon for a more delicate flavour. The Double Smoked Salmon is smoked over oak and then whisky cask shavings creating a robust, full-bodied smoky flavour. Both are made using just two natural ingredients – Loch Duart’s award-winning Scottish salmon and pure sea salt.
Ace Aquatec secures £10m investment to accelerate growth

2 weeks ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Nathan Pyne-Carter (L) CEO Ace Aquatec with Jordi Trias, President, Stolt Sea Farms Scottish-based Ace Aquatec said the capital raised will directly support the creation of 15 new jobs in Dundee, Glasgow and Chile and accelerate the company’s mission “to empower fish farmers with advanced, data-driven insights that promote sustainable, ethical, and efficient operations”. The round was led by Stolt Ventures, with participation from Scottish Enterprise and Aqua-Spark.
UK salmon sales reached nearly £1.5bn in 2024

2 weeks ago | fishfarmermagazine.com | Robert Outram

Figures compiled by ScanTrack for the public body Seafish show that salmon sales leapt by 5.5% year on year for the 12 months to December 2024, accounting for nearly a third of all fish sales in the UK. The revenue growth for salmon outpaced the 2.9% rise recorded across the wider fish category. Figures include Scottish and imported salmon. Cod, tuna and warm water prawns took second, third and fourth place respectively.