Sarah MacDonald is one of Mowi Scotland’s youngest farm managers, running one of the company’s newest and best performing farms, off the Isle of Scalpay.
A new project, involving researchers from Glasgow University and Kelpcrofting, a seaweed farming startup, is investigating the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to predict biofouling of cultured seaweed and planktonic threats to farmed salmon.
Regenerative and restorative aquaculture operations, such as seaweed farms, can be economically – as well as ecologically – sound, according to two of the key players in the space.