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Aquaculture businesses affected by the collapse of markets due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can still apply for funding to cover the costs of maintaining unsold stock.<\/p>\n

The scheme which will support businesses by compensating for the costs of transport, processing and cold storage for salmon, trout and shellfish, is open until the end of 2020.<\/p>\n

Scottish Shellfish<\/a> is one organisation which has successfully applied to the scheme, and has been awarded \u00a369,000 grant funding through the European and Maritime Fisheries Fund.<\/p>\n

Finance Director David Ingram explained:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen restaurants and fish counters shut earlier this year as a result of the pandemic, around 20-25% of our overall turnover was wiped out overnight. It also had a knock-on effect on our members which include 19 mussel and oyster farmers, and meant that we were taking less market ready material from them and if we don\u2019t harvest the produce when it\u2019s ready it just goes out of specification.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were considering what to do about this material when we heard about this storage aid scheme and thought it sounded like a good opportunity to try and save some of this stock.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve now started to cook the mussels, add sauce and store in a freezer which gives us some options so we can continue to make sure we\u2019re supplying stock. We\u2019re also trying out different promotions with our customers \u2013 our recent half priced promotion with a supermarket was a storming success as we were able to manage our stock through the freezing scheme, allowing us to facilitate this type of activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cReceiving funding through EMFF is helping to cover these costs. While the food service sector has recovered to an extent, it\u2019s nowhere near what it was. Most supermarkets haven\u2019t reopened their fish counters and we need to ensure that we can place our members\u2019 produce into other categories within our customer base or, indeed, emerging new markets. This scheme gives us the extra time to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting our stock into coldstores, rotating that and taking material from our farms, is beneficial for all parts of our cooperative.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to be certain about anything just now but one of the great things about working in food and drink is that you\u2019ve got that market \u2013 everyone needs to eat. We\u2019ve just had to adapt and look at our cost base and different ways of working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background <\/strong><\/p>\n

Information on Aquaculture Storage Aid scheme.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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