Work starts on £20m Highlands hatchery
WORK was due to start last month on Marine Harvest’s new £20 million salmon hatchery in the Highlands. The company will construct the facility at its existing base at Inchmore in Glenmoriston.
It will use a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) designed by Pick Everard.
Doug Soutar, Pick Everard’s building services director for Scotland, said: ‘We were effectively designing a life-support system for 14 million fish consisting of 18,000m3 of water at 15 oC located in an external environment with an extreme winter temperature of minus 20 degrees C.