Loch Duart
HQ - Loch Duart Salmon House, Badcall Bay
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| Private Limited Company | |
| Industry | Salmon farming |
| Headquarters |
Scourie Sutherland Scotland |
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Key people
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Alban Denton (CEO) Andy Bing (Sales Director) |
| Products | farmed salmon |
| Revenue | £25 million p.a. |
| Website | www |
Loch Duart is a small, independent Scottish salmon farming company. It is headquartered in Scourie, Sutherland in north-west Scotland and has just over 100 employees. The company owns and operates eight sea sites and two hatcheries in Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides. Sales, marketing and finance departments are located in Montrose and a French sales and marketing office in Lorient, Brittany. The company
The company markets itself as a sustainable salmon company and harvests approximately 5,000 tonnes of fresh salmon annually.
The company established in 1999 by three founders, Nick Joy, Alan Balfour and Andy Bing. The company took over some of Scotland’s oldest sea sites in Badcall Bay and nearby, formerly operated by J. Johnston & Sons, with an initial production capacity of 1,800 tonnes p.a. As of 2016[update] the company produces 5,000 tonnes of fresh salmon annually, generating annual sales of over £25 million.
The farming policies of Loch Duart are based on four guiding principles: (i) respect for the environment, (ii) respect for the fish, (iii) use of natural methods and (iv) respect for the company's people. Loch Duart worked with the RSPCA to develop a Freedom Food farmed salmon approval scheme, becoming the first farm to be approved.
From these principles, Loch Duart has developed a proprietary salmon farming system that aims to rear salmon in conditions that mimic the natural cycle as closely as possible within commercial constraints.
A lower than standard stocking density for salmon at sea. Peak density is 1.5% fish and 98.5% water*. Handling of fish (known to cause stress) is minimised, especially at harvest when humane methods are used.
Proprietary feed formulation with high fish and fish oil content (salmon are carnivores) from the Icelandic capelin fishery and other sustainable sources, GM free and rigorously tested for contaminants.
Total avoidance of antibiotics and minimal use of other medicines.
Each site is left fallow for a period of 5 to 12 months after each cycle. The pens are removed, as are all traces of farming, allowing natural regeneration of the seabed. This results in production levels roughly half the capacity possible under more intensive regimes but creates a near pristine environment for the smolt when they are brought to sea.
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