Beatrice Wishart MSP, the Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Shetland, today visited Cooke Aquaculture Scotland’s Shetland operations (Monday 19 July 2021). The MSP toured our Vee Taing seawater site off Uyeasound in Unst and our packing station in Mid Yell, hosted by Shetland Regional Manager David Brown and Yell Packing Station Manager Christine Nicholson. Beatrice Wishart MSP …
Cooke Aquaculture Scotland has appointed David Cashman as its new finance director. David was previously head of finance at Highland Spring – the UK’s top bottled water producer – where he led the finance function for the £100m turnover business, responsible for all end-to-end activity within the division from transaction services, commercial finance to the year-end audit and preparation and …
A proposal to relocate our existing Chalmers Hope seawater site in Scapa Flow has cleared one of the final hurdles after gaining planning consent from Orkney Island Council. The council agreed that moving this site into deeper water with faster flowing currents would be better for fish health and the marine environment in Scapa Flow. The planning consent also enables …
Due to the continued growth of our Orkney operations, we have taken the opportunity to bolster our seawater leadership team in Orkney. From 1 March experienced Orkney Area Manager Robert (Timbo) Peterson will retain overall responsibility for Orkney with specific focus on production sites off the mainland and Hoy, while Stewart Rendall will take on the newly created role of …
Aquaculture is underpinned by science which enables us to rear Scottish salmon maximising fish health and welfare while protecting and enhancing the marine environment in which they are raised. At Cooke Aquaculture Scotland many of the people applying this science are female. We celebrate the role women play in our company, and share some of their stories on United Nations International …