Loch Duart’s new pens ‘performing well’

SCOTTISH salmon farmer Loch Duart has praised the pens delivered to its site in north-west Sutherland earlier this year.

The ten 80m circumference Fusion Marine Oceanflex pens were manufactured from tough polyethylene, and are part of Scourie based Loch Duart’s strategy to ensure its sites are equipped with the strongest possible containment systems.

The pens, installed at the company’s Oldany farm near Drumbeg, replace steel pens and come equipped with bird net support wheels.

In an order worth more than £200,000, the pens were towed from Fusion Marine’s manufacturing base at Barcaldine, Argyll, and were stocked with smolts in April this year.

Mark Warrington, operations manager for Loch Duart, said: ‘These pens provide a smaller unit which reflects our principles of small-scale, welfare driven farming.’