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The benefits of higher levels of fishmeal and fish oil in farmed salmon feed: a case study from Scotland by Loch Duart Salmon

Andy Bing

by Andy Bing, Sales Director

• Loch Duart produces 5,000 tonnes of salmon per year.

This means that we harvest about 24,000 salmon weighing 4 kilos gutted across three harvests per week.

• We have a minimum of 51% marine ingredients in the diet for our salmon.

• We sell to the niche market, mainly foodservice, mainly at 25% more than other Scottish farmed salmon.

• Immune System

• Metabolism

Grow Healthy Salmon

Resisting Disease Challenge

• Avoiding muscle myopathy

Isfelag link

“from boat to plate”

Sustainability of marine ingredients

• Isfelag quota-based fishing

• Feeds on copepods – low on trophic scale

• Minimal human consumption

• Three year life cycle

Product Quality

• Texture for processing, looking and ‘mouth-feel’

• Texture throughout shelf-life

AA Gill at

Taste

“I like to use quality Scottish salmon fed on as natural a diet as possible. I get this from Loch Duart.” Gordon Ramsay

“I avoid [farmed] salmon on most menus, because there is so much depressingly bad fish around. This [Loch Duart salmon] was as good as I remember from childhood, when it was still a treat…”

Health-ful-ness

• Omega-3 benefitsOptimum benefits come from eating fish not swallowing pills

• Currently high marine content preferred ‘vector’ for high Omega-3

Loch Duart’s brand values include:

• Authenticity of the animal in reference to Wild Atlantic

• Authenticity of feed in reference to Wild Atlantic

Thank you