Pens at Scottish Sea Farms’ Linga site. SSF wants to create fewer but larger farms, with the new Fish Holm one holding 6,000 tonnes of salmon. Photograph: Shetland By Drone Huge project by ...

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The Shetland Islands in the north-east of Scotland regularly experience the highest wind speeds in Europe, and to take advantage of this a new on-shore wind farm project has been approved by ministers ...

The completion of a wind farm and 260km subsea transmission link has connected the Shetland Islands to the GB electricity grid for the first time. SSE hailed the milestone, describing it as a ...

NFU Scotland yesterday stepped up its efforts to have greater f lexibility for f locks affected by scrapie - the brain disease of sheep which has been associated with BSE in cattle and, by implication ...

Plans to build what has been called Scotland's largest salmon farm off the coast of Shetland have been given the go-ahead. Shetland Islands Council approved an £8m redevelopment in Yell Sound - a ...

Three female finalists from dairy and livestock backgrounds blew the judging panel away with their grit, determination and ...

A Shetland fish farming operation with 130 employees, nearly all on the islands, has gone into administration. Daniel Smith and Robert Caven, partners in Grant Thornton UK, have been appointed joint ...

A major step forward in cod farming volume is set to be achieved by Johnson Seafarms at Vidlin, Shetland. Johnson Seafarms is set to have a steady annual 6,000 tonnes of premium organic cod coming to ...