
About ASC
Learn more about the ASC standard and why it’s considered the world-leading certification scheme for responsibly farmed seafood.
Located within the historic stretch of water known as Scapa Flow in Orkney, Bring Head and Toyness are two of five salmon farms bought by Scottish Sea Farms back in 2007, marking our first activity in the region.
In the years immediately thereafter, we focused on bringing all five farms up to the same high standards as our other marine farms: from infrastructure, equipment and health and safety, to staffing, training and development.
That done, we began identifying other suitable locations and, over a number of years, applied for four new consents increasing our present-day Orkney estate to nine-strong.
Come 2022, we reached another key milestone with one of those new farms, Lober Rock, becoming amongst the very first in the company to achieve ASC certification.
Now we are pushing forward with further certifications in Orkney, our Bring Head and Toyness farms included.
In addition to being independently audited against hundreds of different criteria, the certification process requires farms to maintain a high level of transparency.
In the case of salmon farms, this includes providing an overview of its:
All of which you will find below for our Bring Head and Toyness farms.
To monitor and control sea lice levels, Scottish Sea Farms provides an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach. This involves giving careful consideration to all available pest control techniques, then integrating the measures most likely to:
Below are details of the current lice levels at our Bring Head and Toyness farms, based on the average number of adult female Lepeophtheirus salmonis per fish:
Farm: Bring Head
Calendar week: 21
Week beginning:22/05
Average: 2.12
Farm: Toyness
Calendar week: 21
Week beginning:22/05
Average: 2.81
Just as we have a responsibility to protect our own livestock, so too we have a duty of care to protect local wildlife from marine life from harm or entrapment.
Below are details of any wildlife interactions at Toyness during this current crop:
Birds: 0
Mammals: 0
Escaped fish: 0
Unexplained losses refers to any variation in the estimated number of fish put into a marine farm for on-growing and the total number of fish harvested out. As such, these figures are reported at the end of the current crop.
You can download our current Bring Head and Toyness report in full below:
Just as we care about looking after our livestock and local environment, so too we care about the health, safety and wellbeing of our team.
You can read about our commitment to being an ethical employer by downloading our Code of conduct below: