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Scotland's first 'enclosed' salmon farm to open on Loch Long
Innovative containers protecting farmed fish from pollution and lice could help secure the future of industry.
While they are a more expensive way of managing the stock, Loch Long Salmon says savings are made through reduced fish mortality and in eradicating the need for medicines that treat the lice. They also cut the amount of waste falling to the seabed, with about 85% being collected at the bottom of the enclosure and pumped ashore for treatment. Dawn Purchase, aquaculture programme manager for the Marine Conservation Society, told BBC Scotland: "The use of semi-enclosed systems to farm salmon is a great example of the innovation needed to address environmental impacts and challenges of production, such as seabed pollution and sea lice management.
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