Scotland’s farmed Atlantic salmon exports are expected to get back on track this year after stuttering in 2015. The country, which ranks third in the world in terms of salmon production, harvested a record 170,022 metric tons (MT) of salmon in 2014, but biological challenges saw this drop to around 152,000 MT last year.
While sales to the EU market increased slightly, Scotland’s trade with North American and Far East markets was down by one-third in 2015, after showing very strong growth in…