How grown
As with home-grown Scotch Beef and Lamb, our Scottish farmed salmon are hatched, reared and fed in Scotland.
Our sustainability indicators are some of the key ways in which we measure how we are performing with regards to fish welfare, protecting the environment and benefiting the local communities in which we live and work.
(Figures last updated 17 March 2024. Please note: 2023 financial results will be publicly available from Autumn 2024.)
Fish welfare
We’re proud to farm to RSPCA welfare standards; standards that set out best practice in the rearing and care of farmed salmon: from freshwater and marine, to harvest and processing.
Fish welfare
Our average end of crop survival for the last full farming year (2023) was 82%. This compares with less than 5% survival in the wild and brings our five-year average fish survival to 87%.
Fish welfare
89% of all fish harvested in 2023 were graded superior quality, giving a strong indication of the high health and welfare status of our fish.
Fish welfare
Our strict veterinary protocols have helped ensure the continued absence of medicinal residues with the Veterinary Medicines Directorate surveillance programme detecting no residues in our salmon destined for market.
Fish welfare
In 2023, we achieved an average sea lice level of 0.5 adult females (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) per fish across all counts undertaken at all stocked farms throughout the farming year.
Fish welfare
Since 2013, we've invested £5.9M+ in collaborative and in-house research projects worth over £17.7M to help increase understanding of key fish health issues including gill disorders, sea lice and freshwater challenges.