Scottish Salmon Company plans expansion in the Clyde
Last month my husband John and I attended a Community Council meeting in Bute where the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) were to make a presentation on their desire to open two salmon fish farms around Bute, and with the strategy to progress more aquaculture developments in the Clyde. Over 50 residents on the island attended and posed direct questions to the SSC contingent. In 2006-9 the same island had fought a farm at Inchmarnock, a small island off the west coast of Bute, and won. One of the proposed new SSC sites could not be pursued as a BT line goes across the seabed in that area, but the company has every intention of finding two potential sites in the near future, much against the island’s wishes. Arran beware!
The push by SSC for increased production can also be seen at Lamlash, St Molios salmon farm where a certificate of lawfulness was issued on Tuesday 16 June 2015, for the siting of fourteen 80m-circumference cages and a 220 tonne-feedbarge in association with the existing use of the site as a fish farm.
