page_title: Loch Duart
section_title: Husbandry
hierarchical_section_title: Loch Duart / Farming system / Husbandry
caption_attribution_description: English: Fallowing
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: A lower than standard stocking density for salmon at sea.  Peak density is 1.5% fish and 98.5% water*.  Handling of fish (known to cause stress) is minimised, especially at harvest when humane methods are used.
caption: The Swimthrough. Nets are raised for natural cleansing, avoiding the use of anti-foulants
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