Scotland - Government grants for salmon fishing

A record £9.3million in grants for Scottish fishing and fish-farming projects has been announced by the Scottish Government, taking the total level of European Fisheries Fund (EFF) investment for 2009 to more than £25 million.
Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead said the money would be used to strengthen Scotland’s processing sector, secure jobs in remote areas, trial new technologies, improve the efficiency of the fishing industry and grow the nation’s reputation as a land of food and drink.
Young skippers looking to secure a share in their own vessels, plus small aquaculture firms affected by the infectious salmon anaemia outbreak (ISA) earlier this year, are among the successful applicants.
The announcement comes hard on the heels of the first meeting of the Ministerial Group on Aquaculture (MGA), at which the industry set out a number of steps to put the sector on firm footing.

Source: the scotsman

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