Our motto is to ‘farm for the future’, looking after our fish, our environment and our community.

Our Ethos

We are proud to produce an exceptional quality, healthy protein without damage to our local environment, but this is only possible with responsible husbandry and transparency in what we do and how we do it.

We are accredited by Global GAP, the RSPCA, SEPA and BSC and are committed to educating the wider community on our business, publishing our sustainability report annually online.

Our Approach

We have a small-scale, high welfare approach to our business; operating at around 0.25% of the Scottish salmon market.

We are fully vertically integrated with our own broodstock program, guaranteeing egg-to-plate high welfare and winning us the Animal Welfare award at Aquaculture UK 2023.

Our founder Stuart Cannon’s began his pioneering journey growing trout in Scottish lochs in 1972, and the connection we have always had to academia, research and innovation remains central to our business today. Stuart was recently recognized for his services to sustainable development in aquaculture with an MBE, only the second time someone from the industry has received this recognition.

We have grown trout in these waters for over 50 years, and hold deep-rooted partnerships with local community regeneration projects and wild fisheries trusts. Our understanding of the water and sea bed, and our approach to farming in harmony with nature has kept these waters rich in biodiversity.

Please contact us if you have any further questions about our sustainability, we are happy to answer them.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • By keeping the number of fish in one area and stocking densities low, we know that both fish and water will be better quality, and the impact on surrounding fauna and flora minimal. We produce under 3k tonnes a year, which is about 0.25% of the Scottish salmon output.

    We adhere to hands-on and skilled husbandry, with everyone in the team involved across the lifecycle, and integrated welfare and environmental checks at every site.

  • Our trout, being Steelheads, have a natural inclination to migrate to the sea, and the vast volume of water and strong currents make them athletes; big, lean-textured and with a clean taste.

    With such space and flow, they have a lower density than a pond or raceway river farm, and the currents also disperse waste away more easily, and use far less energy consumption than a land-based site. We rear them to their natural life cycle, with minimal handling and never over-fattening.

  • Only 0.5% of the sea is farmed, (compared to 37% of the world’s land) and farming fish protects the seas from some of the devastation caused by trawling – it’s the more sustainable option for a secure food future.

    Our locations with fast-flowing water, the regular fallow periods we conduct, and the natural microfauna such as polycleates in the sea bed ensure the natural waste breaks down quickly. We measure this through each cycle and are independently audited to comply with the agreed modeling for each site.

    It has been demonstrated by independent surveys that the seabed directly under the pens recovers its fauna extremely rapidly in fallow, and moreover our pens sit alongside rare skate eggs, seaweed, sea grasses, cephapods, crustaceans and wild fish without disturbance.

  • We have a carefully tailored, well-balanced diet made up of natural ingredients; including fishmeal and fish oil and vegetable proteins and oils. This diet is designed for optimum fish quality and health, and high levels of Omega 3.

    We do not add hormones or GMOs to our feed.

  • We trace all our ingredients back to source with full transparency. Our marine ingredients are regulated by the Marin Trust, which holds them to certain standards including no dredging or bottom trawling, and our vegetable ingredients are Pro Terra certified.

    We’ve established a carbon reduction program to lower carbon emissions along the supply chain, with a commitment to use regenerative agricultural sources where possible and trial novel ingredients.

    73% of our fishmeal is from trimmings.

  • Our fish contain no synthetic colorants. In the wild, trout get their pink color from eating carotenoids, found in crustaceans and other sea creatures like octopus and herring. Carotenoids also contain antioxidants and Vitamin A, so it's important we supply this nutrient in our fish food to replace the supplement they would have attained in the wild. Our carotenoids are fermented from micro-organisms that crustaceans feed on, meaning its a naturally sourced supplement, and without impact on wild fisheries.