page_title: Loch Duart
section_title: Markets
hierarchical_section_title: Loch Duart / Markets
caption_attribution_description: English: Loch Duart salmon box
context_page_description: 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 and a French sales and marketing office in Lorient, Brittany.
  The company 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 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.
context_section_description: The company exports over 60% of its production to France where it maintains its own office, the USA via Cleanfish Inc, the San Francisco – 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.
  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.
  In 2014, the company announced a deal to sell waste products to a London-based nutrition company.
caption: A Loch Duart salmon box
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