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A SALMON farm company is investing nearly £2 million to upgrade and improve its infrastructure in Shetland, and to boost its plans for enhanced fish welfare and survival.
Scottish Sea Farms’ programme of works will be carried out primarily by Scottish and local suppliers, and it will include:
Five feed barges being upgraded at Buckie-based Macduff Shipyards, at a total cost of £750,000
The workboat
Scapa Lass undergoing a £415,000 refit, also at Macduff, ahead of its repurposing as a treatment support vessel
New pens and moorings worth £675,000 being installed at the companyâs Bellister farm to bring it into line with recent refurbishments across the rest of the Shetland estate