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When it comes to providing tasty, nutritious meals in an environmentally friendly way, Scotland's salmon farmers are well placed to deliver this. Scotland's farmed salmon sector recently published a major roadmap setting out its long-term vision.

In response to today's announcement by the Crown Estate Scotland regarding rent increases, Salmon Scotland has sent the following letter to Mairi Gougeon, The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands.

In the latest of our series on animations about the Scottish salmon farming sector, learn about Cleaner Fish and how they are used on Scottish salmon farms.

Scottish Salmon is the UK's favourite fish, outselling cod, tuna, haddock, mackerel and trout - with good reason too! Not only is it packed with flavour, it also packs a punch in terms of nutritional goodness. A new nutritional analysis carried out by the Nutrition Analytical Service at the University of Stirling in April 2021 has found that just a single portion of farmed Scottish Salmon is even healthier than previously thought, providing more than 70% of daily vitamin D needs.

A new research paper has concluded there has been no impact on wild fish stocks from Scottish salmon farms.

The next in our series of animations looks at how we feed farm-raised salmon to give them a nutritious diet from responsibly sourced feed to ensure it's not only good for salmon, but also for our environment.

Salmon Scotland held an event at COP in November to discuss the possibilities of making packaging more sustainable for our sector. We were joined by Andrew Bett, Salar Pursuits; Donald Buchanan, Scottish Sea Farms; Conan Busby, Edinburgh Airport; Ed Ley-Wilson, Aquascot and Clare Cavers, Fidra. You can see some of the key topics discussed here.

This is the fourth in our series of short animations to answer some of the queries we get about our sector. You can see the other films on this page.

A four-year Scottish Salmon Company project to grow post-smolts to 500g at its Applecross site in the northwest highlands has been awarded up to £5 million. Highlands and Islands Enterprise has approved up to £3m investment in the project, which will create around 30 new jobs and a further £2m has been confirmed by Marine Scotland.

We've launched the third in our series of informative animations, helping you understand more about the salmon farming sector. This one explains more about parasites such as sea lice.

Salmon Scotland has launched its second informative animation. Created by DenvirMarketing, this animation focuses on stocking density, in other words, how we provide a good quality water environment for our salmon.

More than one million farm-raised salmon are expected to have been killed by seals in the two years to the end of 2021, according to new figures released today.