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{{Short description|Scottish salmon farming company}}
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'''Loch Duart''' is a small, independent Scottish [[salmon farming]] company. It is headquartered in [[Scourie]], Sutherland in north-west [[Scotland]] and has just over 100 employees. The company owns and operates eight sea sites and two hatcheries in Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides. Sales, marketing and finance departments are located in [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] and a French sales and marketing office in [[Lorient]], Brittany.
 
The company markets itself as a [[Sustainable agriculture|sustainable]] salmon company and harvests approximately 5,000 tonnes of fresh [[salmon]] annually. Following a ruling in 2019 by the Advertising Standards Authority, Loch Duart Ltd agreed to drop the "sustainable" claim from their marketing.
 
Loch Duart has teamed up with New Zealand–based firm [https://oritain.com/ Oritain] to fight the illegal food fraud trade. By using technology which takes trace elements from the loch in which it's farmed, they can match salmon taken from any market in the world and work out whether it is Loch Duart salmon.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Black|first=Andrew|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-50866747|title=Salmon producer steps up war on food fraud|date=2019-12-24|work=BBC News|access-date=2020-02-18|language=en-GB}}</ref>
 
== Background ==
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=== Antibiotics ===
Total avoidance of antibiotics and minimal use of other medicines.<ref>{{closed access}} {{cite web|url=http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/768082/antibiotics-in-salmon-what-chile-can-learn-from-its-peers|website=Intrafish|publisher=INTRAFISH MEDIA AS|title=Antibiotics in Salmon: What Chile can Learn from its peers}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Risks of using Antifouling Biocides in Aquaculture|journal=International Journal of Molecular Sciences|volume=13|issue=2|pages=1541–1560|pmc=3291976|year=2012|author1last1=Guardiola|first1=F. A.|last2=Cuesta|first2=A|last3=Meseguer|first3=J|last4=Esteban|first4=M. A.|doi=10.3390/ijms13021541|pmid=22408407|doi-access=free}}</ref>
 
=== Fallowing ===
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=== Anti-foulants ===
No use of chemical anti-foulants on pens and nets by using a swim-through system. This allows a fouled net to be pulled up while the fish swim through to the next net and allowed to dry so that marine organisms (seaweed, mussels etc.) dry out and fall back into the water. This reduces production capacity by 5 – 85–8% according to site configuration.
 
=== Sea lice control ===
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Seal predation caused significant losses for a number of years, especially as the seal population grew, but, where sea currents and pen shape allow, a box-style anti-predator net is deployed. This has had the unexpected secondary effect of creating a safe haven for sea life – especially small mackerel, saithe and herring, which can now be seen in the predator-free areas created by the double-netting system.
 
Fin nipping by young fish, the result of boredom and bullying in hatchery tanks, has threatened the quality of life of the salmon population and is being solved by the development of [[artificial reefsreef]]s and playthings.<ref>{{cite web|title=Loch Duart Salmon Welfare Breakthroughs|date=15 April 2016|url=http://www.lochduart.com/loch-duart-salmon-welfare-breakthroughs|publisher=Lochduart Ltd}}</ref> Farmers both at sea and on land refer to this as ‘environment enrichment’.
 
Loch Duart has also be cited as using a Variety of harmful chemicals, such as [[Azamethiphos]], [[Deltamethrin]], [[Emamectin Benzoate]] (SLICE) and [[Teflubenzuron]], among others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://salmonfarmingkills.com/blog/loch-duarts-sustainable-salmon-scam-exposed|title=Loch Duart's 'Sustainable Salmon' Scam Exposed {{!}} Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture|website=salmonfarmingkills.com|access-date=19 July 2017}}</ref>
 
It has been widely criticised by environmental groups as providing embellished or false marketing information to chefs, about the health and safety of its fish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsreview.com/chico/dirty-secrets-of-farmed-salmon/content?oid=1380701|title=Dirty secrets of farmed salmon – Sustainability – Green Guide – March 4, 2010|website=Chico News & Review|access-date=19 July 2017}}</ref> Although being produced in lower density pens, it is still being produced very much like industrial commercial salmon farms.
 
The company entered the smoked salmon market by acquiring the Salar Smokehouse on South Uist in the [[Outer Hebrides]]in 2014 the smokehouse was returned to local ownership.<ref>{{cite news|title=Salar brand reborn in its island home|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/13416182.display/|date=18 July 2015|author=David Ross|work=The Herald Scotland|accessdate=19 July 2017}}</ref>
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== Markets ==
[[File:Ld 955 2 2mb.jpg|thumb|A Loch Duart salmon box]]
The company exports over 60% of its production to France where it maintains its own office, the USAUS via Cleanfish Inc, the San Francisco – basedFrancisco–based distributor which has made provenance and quality its major issues, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong. Strand Foods, an LA -based company also distributes Loch Duart Salmon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.strandfoods.com/loch-duart-salmon|title=Loch Duart Salmon – Strand Foods|website=strandfoods.com|access-date=19 July 2017}}</ref>
 
Loch Duart has achieved the unusual feat of establishing a primary (and unprocessed) food product – whole fresh salmon – as a premium international brand*. Celebrity and Michelin-starred chefs, such as [[Gordon Ramsay]], [[Raymond Blanc]] and [[Rick Stein]], have featured the Loch Duart brand on their menus. Loch Duart salmon was served at the dinner at [[Buckingham Palace]] following the Royal Wedding in 2011 and at the Queens’ Jubilee Luncheon in the [[City of London]].<ref>{{closed access}} {{cite web|url=http://www.intrafish.com/news/488985/queen-dines-on-loch-duart-salmon|website=Intrafish|publisher=INTRAFISH MEDIA AS|title=Queen dines on Loch Duart salmon}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Wild? Farmed? What Fish Should We Eat?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wild-fish-farmed-fish_b_812308.html|date=22 January 2011|author=Mark Hyman|work=HuffPost}}</ref>
 
In 2014, the company announced a deal to sell waste products to a London-based nutrition company.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-28244469 |title=Salmon producer Loch Duart signs waste deal with nutrition firm |work=BBC News|date=11 July 2014}}</ref>
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