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Sectors

Mariculture

The farmed salmon industry in Scotland accounts for 40% of the country’s food exports but is under increasing pressure to limit any detrimental environmental impacts that it may have. SOI Ltd provides a range of services that are of direct relevance to the aquaculture sector:

  • Assessment of stock including muscle texture using gene markers
  • Provision of ecological and archaeological data for a range of EIA activities
  • High resolution sub-sea scanning
  • Geochemical analysis for quality assurance and provenance of feeds etc