Scottish Salmon Company sees 3rd quarter sales fall by 14.4% – For Argyll

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In the third quarter of 2013 – to September – the Scottish Salmon Company’s sales fell by 14.4%, from £21.5 million to £18.4 million.

In volume terms, this is 2,000 tonnes less than for the same quarter in 2012.

It seems, though, that this fall in sales may be more a matter of less product to sell than of less product sold.

The amoebic gill disease which regularly ravages the intensely populated salmon cages and which affected this company’s farms in 2012, is said to account for much of the losses in Q3 this year.

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Scottish Salmon Company sees 3rd quarter sales fall by 14.4% – For Argyll

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In the third quarter of 2013 – to September – the Scottish Salmon Company’s sales fell by 14.4%, from £21.5 million to £18.4 million.

In volume terms, this is 2,000 tonnes less than for the same quarter in 2012.

It seems, though, that this fall in sales may be more a matter of less product to sell than of less product sold.

The amoebic gill disease which regularly ravages the intensely populated salmon cages and which affected this company’s farms in 2012, is said to account for much of the losses in Q3 this year.

The company is upbeat about the situation, saying that it expects 2013 still to finish more strongly than 2012, that both demand and the global picture remain good.

The question remains as to when the aquaculture or salmon farming industry will clean up its act; and when or if the Scottish Government and the supine SEPA will come to understand that a well regulated industry is in the best interests of all concerned into the future.