Cooke Aquaculture Buys Balta Island Seafare, Scotland's Last Independent Farmed Salmon Operator
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Shetland News] - September 7, 2016
One of Scotland’s leading aquaculture companies, Cooke Aquaculture has bought over Balta Island Seafare Ltd., which has salmon farms around the islands of Yell and Unst.
Following the acquisition of Yell-based Thompson Bros. Salmon Ltd. in August 2015, it gives Cooke Aquaculture a monopoly on the management of farmed salmon in the North Isles.
The three farm sites encompass over 1,000 tonnes of salmon production, and a Cooke spokesman said the company was pleased to have taken over the Baltasound-based firm...
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