Fish Farmer

Work starts on £20m Highlands hatchery

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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.

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