SCOTLAND’S FINEST Sea Loch Fresh Salmon

The Scottish Salmon Company is built on three core values: Pride in our Scottish Salmon; the Passion of our talented and hardworking people and the Scottish Provenance of our environment. Welcome

The Scottish Salmon Company produces The Scottish Salmon Company control all ’s finest sea loch Fresh and Smoked aspects of our value chain from broodstock “Salmon is very popular in Japan, not only for Salmon with pride and passion. development through to sales and packaging. Our commitment to Scotland and our dedication sushi but also for various dishes such as salad With our Head Office in Scotland’s capital, to product integrity allows our customers to and pasta. Scottish Salmon, with its rich texture , we breed, rear and process feel confident, secure and inspired by a supplier and balanced nutrition, is a ideal for healthy food superior salmon exclusively in the pristine which guarantees Scotland’s finest salmon lovers. I sincerely hope Japanese consumers Craig Anderson waters of the Scottish Western Highlands consistently twelve months of the year. Chief Executive Officer and Islands. enjoy Scottish salmon, and the bond between Regional Director of the Year 2018 Learn more about our Company and our Japan and Scotland is strengthened through Our customers appreciate our product quality, brands; Native Hebridean Salmon (Fresh & Scottish produce.” service excellence and Provenance Guarantee. Smoked), Tartan Salmon, Lochlander Salmon We are also the proud recipients of multiple and Harris and Lewis Smoked Salmon, inside. Ms Fujimoto, Deputy Consul General industry awards recognising our commitment to Scotland, our industry and to our staff. We Sincerely supply Scotland’s finest salmon to discerning customers in more than 26 countries around Craig Anderson the world. Chief Executive Officer

We love our Scottish Salmon We’re sure you will too

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Our aim is to produce the finest quality salmon, not just in We Produce Scotland’s Finest food Scotland, but in the world We take immense pride in producing Scotland’s standard bearer Scotland’s finest food. We farm, process Renowned suppliers of quality, fresh and market salmon, and related seafood, premium salmon that exceeds our exclusively from the Western Highlands customers’ expectations, we are dedicated and Islands of Scotland. Widely regarded to maintaining the standards that keep us as Scotland’s standard bearer, we are at the very forefront of the industry. This committed custodians of our environment, pioneering commitment to quality has creators of prosperity at home and proud ensured that our salmon is consistently representatives of Scotland overseas. superior, winning us multiple industry awards, Label Rouge accreditation and Our fresh Scottish Salmon has a natural creating demand for our salmon at home rosy pink colour, firm texture and delicious and abroad. taste, meaning our salmon is in demand by respected chefs, restaurateurs, smokers and retailers around the world.

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“My job is incredibly Our quest is to supply Scotland’s finest A shared passion rewarding, it’s a real salmon and seafood to discerning Offering a wealth of experience and customers around the world. We are a expertise, our team of Freshwater and Marine privilege to work with the passionate group of professionals, pioneering ‘Salmon Masters’, nutritionists, biologists, team, at the heart of salmon best practice in Aquaculture. From excellence environmentalists, logistics and quality control production” in animal husbandry and environmental professionals, sustainability and planning stewardship to customer service, people are managers are passionate about salmon and SSC Modern Apprentice, at the heart of our business. improving Scottish Aquaculture. Together, our Janis Brivkalns, celebrating after work with leading vocational colleges and winning 3 Lantra (Landbased We are a customer facing business meaning apprenticeship programmes, our painstaking and Aquaculture ‘Learner of the all our efforts are focused on providing our recruitment process, continuing professional Year’) Awards, 2019. customers with what they want when they development and bespoke skills training want it. We talk to our buyers, respect their enable us to find and retainthe best people opinions and act on their recommendations. in each and every function.

United by this passion for Aquaculture and a total commitment to the environments where we live and work, all of our staff share a common goal of becoming and remaining Scotland’s Finest.

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Our unique environment on the West Coast of Scotland and the is the Provenance Guarantee of our Scottish Salmon. We are OPERATING Provenance fortunate to live and work in Scotland, where SITES the fresh waters and sea lochs provide FROM OVER We hatch, rear and process all of our the ideal conditions for nurturing healthy, nutritious and delicious seafood. 60 salmon in Scotland

Our Provenance Guaranteed logo is our Total commitment our sea lochs, we are devoted to raising trademark symbol which guarantees In economic terms, The Scottish Salmon our Salmon and are custodians of our customers traceability, confidence in our Company is an important rural employer. environment. The jobs we provide value chain, sustainability, authenticity and Our salmon farms and processing facilities offer young people the chance to stay and Scottish quality. provide much needed jobs in rural settle in their own communities. Our staff areas, which are often lacking in inward are integral to these communities playing We farm salmon only in Scotland. investment. We are the biggest private a full part in the rural life of Scotland Here, the breathtaking scenery, rugged, sector employer on the Hebridean Islands organising, volunteering and fundraising undulating coastline, sparkling white buying up to £100m worth of supplies from for local events. beaches and crystal clear waters provide Scottish companies annually. We support the spectacular settings for our business. ship building, engineering, diving and Environmentally, our commitment to this This is our home – the place where we live transport contractors. We estimate that our beautiful country is absolute. Acutely and work – and we’re totally committed business indirectly supports around 800 jobs aware of our responsibilities in looking not just to Scotland’s environmental across Scotland. after our homelands and homewaters, our sustainability but its economic and cultural sustainability principle is simple: ‘leave it sustainability as well. With this economic spend come real cultural as you found it’. You can read more about benefits. With over 85% of our Aquaculture our environmental sustainability projects on team living rurally along the shores of page 16.

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We firmly believe that Scotland is THE best These deep and wide lochs are fed from place in the world to rear salmon. Here’s the Highland mountains where ‘burns’ or why. Over 60 freshwater and marine sites rivulets evolve into streams, which in turn in the north and west of the country enjoy combine and mature into raging torrents of a temperate and wet climate, receiving up clear, fresh water. These are the fresh waters to 265 days of rain a year. West Highland in which our salmon eggs are nurtured and Scotland also offers island archipelagos, grown. As the rivers reach the sea lochs, jagged coastlines, roaring rivers and deep the cold fresh water and warmer salt water sea lochs teaming with cold, clean waters. mix, creating a nutrient-rich ecosystem that provides the perfect natural environment This wild, indented seaboard is ideal for for our young salmon. salmon farming, offering our marine sites protection from the worst of the Atlantic storms while strong tidal flows exercise our salmon and help to clean our sea

lochs naturally. These deep and wide Key lochs are fed from the SSC FRESHWATER SSC PROCESSING Highland mountains SITES SITES SSC MARINE SITES ROUTES

BROODSTOCK HARRIS & LEWIS SMOKEHOUSE 9 Kyles Vuia, Isle of Lewis 10 Our animal husbandry standards and ethics are Nutrition world class and animal husbandry

To nature we add nurture with our Salmon best possible diet. Our salmon offer high Combining traditional husbandry with the Continuous improvement Masters, biologists, veterinarians and levels of Omega 3 and nutrients such as latest farming techniques, our freshwater Employing standard operating procedures specialists in all areas of animal husbandry. vitamins, mineral and amino acids. From and marine teams go to enormous lengths to deliver best practice is just the start. We sustainable sources and IFFO certified, to ensure healthy salmon. Along with our continually strive to improve everything We are committed to the health and welfare our Nutritionists ensure a non-GMO nutritionists, we also employ biologists, we do in order to produce sustainable, of our salmon. Working closely with our marine rich feed with no steroids, on-site teams and veterinary specialists to premium, highly nutritious Scottish feed suppliers, our nutrition department hormones or chemical colourants. ensure the healthy growth of our salmon. Salmon for generations to come. strive to provide our salmon with the

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We are fully engaged with each and Hatcheries Marine Harvesting Served with pride every stage of our integrated value chain, The tiny eggs become ‘Alevins’ while still At around one year, the ‘Smolts’ are Fish are live hauled in one of our three Delicious, firm and natural rosy pink salmon guaranteeing quality, consistency, feeding from their yolk sac ready for the salty water of our sea loch well boats food security and full traceability of all marine farms • The finest quality, locally produced Scottish our Salmon. • Constantly evolving ‘in-house’ breeding • Efficient value chain logistics employed to salmon with total value chain integrity programmes, including our unique Best Practice Animal Husbandry reduce time from harvest to processing • Freshly delivered to 26 countries from Native Hebridean Salmon broodstock Good husbandry and disease prevention • Careful, minimal movement of fish to North America to the Far East We guarantee • Health is carefully monitored throughout through continual improvements in fish minimise stress • Partnerships with leading retailers, quality, consistency life cycle by on-site staff and specialist welfare • Careful temperature control maintained upmarket smokers and celebrated and food security biologists throughout the process restaurateurs • Unique, carefully sourced high marine content Freshwater feed to ensure maximum nutritional value Processing Trace your salmon Under close supervision, the salmon grow • All feed is guaranteed GM free We have two state-of-the-art processing Traceability is extremely important to through the ‘Fry’ and ‘Parr’ life stages • Responsible environmental stewardship facilities in Cairndow, and Marybank, us. We want to ensure our customers and pioneering environmental innovation, know where their salmon comes from • Our specialised freshwater hatcheries in including single loch stocking to demonstrate total food security. the Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Fast, efficient and timely gutting Our salmon are tagged with a QR (quick • Secure and safe environment with and filleting response) code. By scanning this, customers round-the-clock supervision • Handpicked grading and quality selection can easily identify the Provenance of their • Strict hygiene and temperature control salmon on our website • Pre-rigor pinbone out filleting to www.scottishsalmon.com maximise shelf life • Polybox HOG packing and ‘Vac Pack’ consumer packaging capability

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Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do

As a seafood business focused 100% on Scotland, we have a particular duty to protect our Scottish environment. Put simply, we can’t be successful without the natural Highland springs and nutrient rich sea loch ecosystems where we raise our salmon. Our in-house Biologists, Marine Operatives and Sustainability Department work with local communities and national agencies to ensure we remain at the cutting edge of scientific innovation. We are the first Salmon producer in Scotland to be awarded the Best Aquaculture Practice, always striving to find the right balance between commercial farming and long-term ecological sustainability.

Innovating in Scottish Aquaculture Lumpsucker and Farmed Ballan Wrasse Mechanical Our operations are regulated by robust We have a ‘cleaner fish’ programme that aims Cleaning Practices management procedures ensuring to use natural solutions when confronted with In 2016 we successfully trialled Hydrolicer compliance with all relevant environmental natural challenges. The ‘cleaner fish’ consume technology in Loch Fyne using pressurised legislation. We believe Scotland has the sea lice in our pens, as they would in the water, rather than chemicals, to cleanse fish toughest regulatory standards in the world wild. We produce our own lumpsucker stock of parasites such as sea lice. The Hydrolicer but as pioneers in Aquaculture we are and by 2020 we plan to have one million is deployed on its own craft meaning we can constantly looking beyond these accepted lumpsuckers deployed in the ongoing fight move it around as needed. guidelines to find innovative ways to define against sea lice. In addition to this, we were what it means to be ‘Scotland’s Finest’. All of the first company to commercially farm Ballan our procedures are maintained through our Wrasse in Scotland for use in salmon pens. Environmental Management System (EMS), Scotland is our home, it’s which is audited to the International Standard where we live and work, it’s ISO 14001. We adhere to the GLOBALG.A.P. precious to us and we have to Code of Good Practice for Finfish Aquaculture. take care of it

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Native Hebridean Salmon Native Hebridean Pure Scottish Island salmon, bred from wild stock and farmed only in Hebridean waters Smoked Salmon

The Scottish Salmon Company has Hand Cured and Freshly Smoked “Robust, lean and noticeably S developed its unique ‘native strain’ of E D salmon broodstock. Our unique Native firmer, Native Hebridean I on the Hebridean Islands R ISLE OF LEWIS B Hebridean Salmon are heirs to an ancestral Scottish Salmon offer E ISLE OF HARRIS bloodline of wild salmon stretching back H We hand cure and freshly smoke only smoked in pebble lined kilns using a distinctive fresh, firm millennia. Only salmon that share this pure E ISLE OF Native Hebridean Salmon, born and wood shavings of aged Scottish NORTH Scottish island lineage and which are born, and succulent taste of the H sustainably raised on the Western whisky barrels. T ISLE OF reared and harvested in the Hebrides qualify Scottish Islands.” Isles of Scotland. These award winning as Native Hebridean. salmon are prized by the world’s Naturally rich in Omega 3, Native finest chefs for their firm texture and Hebridean Smoked Salmon offer a Research has shown that Native Hebridean Gary Maclean outstanding flavour. unique fresh taste of the Scottish Salmon possess greater tensile strength Hebridean Islands. Scottish Salmon Company

than other farmed salmon. The benefits SCOTLAND Fresh fillets are hand cured by Skilled Food Ambassador & include firmer flesh, less gaping and an Smoke Masters using our ‘Traditional unsurpassed eating experience. Scotland’s National Chef www.nativehebrideansalmon.com Island Recipe’. Cured fillets are then www.nativehebrideansmoked.com

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A New Brand of Scottish Excellence

EDITION LIMITÉE Tartan Salmon is only farmed in Scotland, from Loch to Plate. Tartan Salmon are Tartan Salmon Label Rouge: exclusively by The Scottish Salmon naturally high in Omega-3 as our feed La Nouvelle Marque de l’Excellence Écossaise Company. Our ‘Tartan Salmon’ brand contains a minimum of 30% Marine www.lochlander.com brings an iconic Scottish look, fit for our Content diet, rich in EPA/DHA and always premium salmon. responsibly sourced.

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Hand Cured and Gently Smoked in • Collar bone off • Belly fins off • Collar bone off • Pinbone out • Collar bone off • Collar bone off • Backbone off • Pinbone out • Backbone off • Back trimmed • Backbone off • Backbone off our Harris & Lewis Smokehouse • Back fin off • Available descaled • Back fin off • Tail piece off • Back fin off • Back fin off • Belly fat off • Belly fat off • Belly membrane off • Belly fat off • Belly fat off • Belly fins off • Available descaled • Belly fins off • Belly fins off The Harris & Lewis Smokehouse is located on • Pinbone out • Pinbone out the beautiful and remote Scottish Western Isles • Back trimmed • Back trimmed where time-honoured and hand-made customs Trim E skinned are still cherished. • Tail piece off • Tail piece off Flesh • Belly membrane off • Belly membrane off Our Artisan Smokers hand cure only fresh Product Information • Skin off • Skin off Scottish salmon with sea salt and demerara • Deep skinned 4cm • Deep skinned 2cm sugar. We then gently smoke with whisky cask • Collar bone off • Pinbone out chippings infusing our salmon `sides` with a rich • Backbone off • Back trimmed flavour evocative of these windswept islands. • Back fin off • Tail piece off • Belly fat off • Belly membrane off The result is a culinary masterpiece, virtuous on • Belly fins off • Skin off the palette and stimulating to the senses. Skinned

www.harrisandlewis.co.uk Packaging Options • Polystyrene air/road freight • 10kg, 15kg or 20kg • Shelf life: 10 days

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We farm in some of the most remote We are committed to providing quality We aim to source locally where possible to and fragile Scottish coastal regions. employment, developing staff, sourcing retain value in the local economy. Key parts We respect the major role that salmon locally where possible and playing our part of our community engagement programme farming plays in these rural areas and are in our local communities. includes supporting local, traditional, cultural committed to being an active and integral and sporting events, such as the part of our communities. We seek to ensure open and transparent Gathering and Lochcarron Highland Games. communication with industry stakeholder A large number of community groups groups and communities through our and initiatives have also benefited from Community Charter which outlines our sponsorship through donations of product commitments and responsibilities to our and staff support. Through our community people, suppliers and communities. fund, staff are encouraged to nominate groups that promote health and wellbeing in the local community.

We are committed to the local communities in which we live and work

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Whether we’re delivering the finest quality Quality through and through salmon to customers on the other side of Testament to The Scottish Salmon Company’s the world or the other side of the loch, we commitment to quality, our current maintain the highest levels of customer accreditations and endorsements include: service at all times. We believe in building long term partnerships with our customers. • Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Through understanding your business needs 3 star certified we ensure we can support and add value to • GLOBALG.A.P. for Aquaculture the partnership. • BRC Global Standard for Food Safety • Code of Good Practice for Scottish Maintaining the highest quality of Scottish Finfish Aquaculture Salmon throughout our entire operation • Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) means implementing not just one best status by the European Commission (setting practice programme but many. We have Scottish salmon alongside Champagne, been awarded several internationally Stornoway Black Pudding and Arbroath recognised accreditations. Smokies as a distinct food product) • Over 60 sites in the Western Highlands & Islands • Label Rouge No. LA33/90 • Head office is located in Edinburgh, Scotland • Environmental management system fully • Over 600 staff certified to ISO 14001:2015 • We only rear salmon in Scotland and are the country’s • The Federation of Chefs Scotland leading independent producer • Export to 26 countries around the world

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The Scottish Salmon Company Limited 8 Melville Crescent Edinburgh, Scotland, UK EH3 7JA Key

SSC FRESHWATER SSC PROCESSING For more information, please contact The Scottish Salmon Company: SITES SITES Tel +44 (0) 131 718 8500 SSC MARINE SITES FERRY ROUTES Email [email protected]/[email protected] BROODSTOCK HARRIS & LEWIS SMOKEHOUSE Website www.scottishsalmon.com